Review paycheck_stevens 3/5 · Jun 5, 2022
Great Fun Aside from the final Final Boss
This is probably a sub-par 3D action platformer, but it is so fun to run around with all the creatures you have designed yourself. For every hour I wanted to spend in Magic Pengel's doodling, the desire in this game was ten-fold. The camera is entirely inverted and does not have great visibility, the game chugs if anything remotely complex …
This is probably a sub-par 3D action platformer, but it is so fun to run around with all the creatures you have designed yourself. For every hour I wanted to spend in Magic Pengel's doodling, the desire in this game was ten-fold. The camera is entirely inverted and does not have great visibility, the game chugs if anything remotely complex starts happening on-screen, and everything is just a bit janky, but man if I did not have a grand time getting to the final form of the final boss. The dialog was cheesy, but they seemed pretty self-aware about that, and I felt like the two main characters (Prince Pixel and Pastel) actually had incredibly conversational voice acting for most of the game. I really enjoyed the sense of humor in the game (both in dialog and creature design), and the background music was simple but very re-listenable. Trust me when I say the background music for the drawing section of the game will be stuck in your head for weeks. This game oozes the odd charm that no studio would risk today.
It took around 7 hours to get to the final-final fight, and then I spent another seven hours trying to design and fight my way through that crap-fest to no avail. I wish it had not ended that way. Quite the sour taste that will probably lessen over time. Maybe I will revisit this when my daughter is old enough not to be afraid of bad guys in games. Until then, au revoir (as she calls it) Feety Kingdom!
Edit: Wanted to add before I forgot that there are some problematic gender stereotypes touched on in the dialogue, which seem more on the nose than some of the issues I mentioned in Magic Pengel's review.
