About This Game FOX n FORESTS is a 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by the glorious days of 16-bit! Switch between various seasons on the fly, shoot and slash with your magic melee crossbow and snatch valuable loot to unveil the mystery of the 5th seasons. A thrilling pixel art fable with rewarding super secrets, screen filling bosses and thriving exploration. This is 16-bit how you remember it!5 SEASONS!Switch between various seasons to explore new areas, outfox enemies and uncover amazing secrets.MAGIC MELEE CROSSBOW!Wield a weapon like no other to shoot, slash, slide and switch seasons.FOXTASTIC FABLE!Help Rick the Fox uncover the mystery of the 5th season and bring back justice to the forests and its inhabitants.RETROTAINMENT!16-bit how you remember it with gorgeous pixel art and a catchy chiptunes soundtrack.ACTION PLATFORMER!A thrilling adventure with engaging RPG elements, clever puzzles and pixel perfect platforming. 7aa9394dea Title: FOX n FORESTSGenre: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Bonus Level Entertainment, Independent Arts SoftwarePublisher:EuroVideo Medien Release Date: 17 May, 2018 FOX N FORESTS Key Serial Number One word: clunky. Rick kinda feels like he's wading through mud as he walks and can only melee while moving (???) but can't shoot while moving or jumping (?????????). Joystick remapping doesn't actually do anything so you're basically forced to use Joy2Key\/Xpadder\/DS4Tool\/Big Picture Mode\/etc if you're rightfully not using a 360 controller for a platformer. The seasons changing is a really neat concept, but it feels a bit unpolished since the enemies at least in the beginning don't even change based on them besides things like beehives. Enemies are usually too short or too far above you to hit with arrows. Didn't even want to progress further because it just feels unpolished and more like The Wizard of Oz for SNES than any other comparable platformer. I can't recommend this.. I wanted to love this game as it's music is fantastic, it's appearance and animations are top tier, but the actual responsiveness of controls and certain aspects of the platforming that rely on RNG hamper this from being the consistent SNES platformer experience that I expected this to be. I wanted to recommend this and maybe a patch will fix it but I'm not sticking around for that.. I'm not a backer to this game, I just saw it through a group's discord and became interested in the product. Since I'm one of the first to play I might as well give my thoughts so you know what you're getting intoAt first glance, it looks like a standard indie-platformer with a furry themed character. However when I looked at it I knew what it was. It's an adventure platformer, a genre that is not common within the current norm. This is not Shantae, this is not Shovel Knight, this is not Freedom Planet which is not a bad thing as it's able to give a reason to add to your library of games with no real alternative currently.This game is very similar to that of Act Raiser and Demon's Crest back in the SNES days. A small handful of large levels filled with secrets but formulated in a way that gives it the feel where the ultimate goal is reaching the end. Finding these secrets will reward you with currency which you can purchase various tools to help your overall progression of the game. The stages themselves will have various obsticles that feel threatening enough to make them like get from point A to point B games. Though quantity of levels is small, the amount of hidden stash and various paths makes it easy and appealing to replay.The main gimmick of the gameplay is the ability to change season. Though it sounds unique, the mechanic is ultimatly just switching between two stages. Various hazords get removed and other platforms appear. Nothing too special but it adds a little to the general gameplay which is very solid. The main character has a veriety of melee and projectile based tools to use which works well as the game's desigin is not afraid to throw enemies at you. You'll find various ways to get yourself out of situations and you will feel like you're in constant danger of your enviroment which keeps you as a player in check and on your toes. It's not difficult, but it does offer challenge.This is a well made game that's fun but that's pretty much it. You're paying for exactly what you see and it won't appeal to everyone. But if it interested you, then go for it.. Awesome Game! It really feels like an original SNES experience.. The game overall is not bad, but it has some major flaws.Pros:- Good pixelated graphics,Cons:- Awful controls. For example, when you switch between seasons, you are unable to move for a brief moment. But this often resulted in me being hit by something or someone. Otherwise, if the controls were fine, this could have been easily avoidable. Sometimes you're unable to perform a dash, no matter how fast you hit the action button resulting in disturbed gameplay flow. Often enemies hit you because of that. When you shoot and if you press down, you don't crouch. You need to stop shooting to crouch. I think you should be able to crouch as you shoot.The controls don't actually feels tight.- Bad collision detection for some enemies. Sometimes you're in front of a rock and get hit by. Sometimes on slopes you hit the smash button, but you get hit by the enemy and the enemy didn't get a hit. There are some falling leave you should jump on them, but the space you can jump on them is too small and that often resulted in falling though them.- Backtracking. In some cases backtracking is not that bad, but in case of this game it's bad. Once you finish a level, there's little to no desire to go back. Although the graphics may be cool, the levels themselves are not that interested. Nothing too spectacular and repetitive, with repetitive enemies and patterns. And most of the time they follow the same formula. And the worst is, if you get killed, you lost all of your progress and you need to start from the beginning of a level. This becomes tedious. Even if there are some checkpoints, they costs you coins. I'd prefer if they were automatic. But no, you have to specifically tell that you want to save and loose some of your coins. Just great...And then, there's the grind mechanic. You also must backtrack levels to get coins, if you would like to upgrade your abilities. Actually, there's no "would". You NEED to upgrade anyway because I don't think you could progress further. Again, if you die and lost some amount of coins and save collected items, it would have been much better and acceptable, but as it is right now it's... meh.- Dropped coins stays for too short amount of time.- The default jump height seems not enouigh, as you almost all of the times need to double jump in order to get even on platforms that are literally above your head.- You can't press down+jump to jump down from one-way up platforms (like tree leaves).- Music. This is really my personal opinion, as some of you might like the soundtrack, but I don't like the music at all. It's actually the worst music this game could get. If the music was better, maybe I would have liked this game more. Sound effects however are fine.- There's no button to exit the game. Seriously, how such a big team (I've seen the credits) could have missed that?Really, this game showed potential, but at this point I can't give this a thumbs up. Maybe if they fix these issues.... Thank you for Linux Support since day 1 :)The first time I played, it didn't feel too great but I as I started playing it felt better and better. (After Ubuntu update the controls got better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on nVidia). Lovely Retrostyle platformer with astounding gameplay and awesome artstyle and sound. buy it. now.. Pretty fun. A colorful game with cool 2D sprites and retro music. Having to redo levels several times can get a bit annoying and the hitboxes felt weird sometimes but I think it's a solid game. What convinced me to buy it was the amazing plot and dialogue... who am I kidding, I bought it for the shirtless fox guy on the cover art lol
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Updated: Mar 18, 2020
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