Felix the Toy

Genre: 3D Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Felix the Toy is a 3D Platformer released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2021. This game has you jumping around and collecting pickups as a small blocky toy.

Felix the Toy is, quite simply, an ugly game. The 3D graphics here are blocky, largely untextured, and largely devoid of personality. The only sound in the game appears to be a tinny noise when you collect one of the game’s pickups (though oddly not the other, which remains silent), and the game’s soundtrack, which seems to consist of poorly-chosen fair use songs (Spawncast fans will instantly recognize the tutorial music).

As for the gameplay, this is mostly an exceedingly mediocre 3D Platformer. There’s not much variety – you only have one move, a jump, and can’t even vary your jump height. Your movement speed is sluggish, the controls aren’t very responsive… all you can do in this game is run and jump, and both of those things are not at all fun.

The coin-like pickups seem inconsequential, too – collecting them serves no purpose. Rather, the only thing that seems to matter are the silent blocky green pickups (microchips?) you need to collect to complete each level.

However, the worst part of this game is the camera, which requires babysitting, and which obscures your vision whenever you’re behind an object, and that includes the ceiling. This seems particularly absurd to me – why would a developer create a game where ceilings block the camera’s view when you get close, and then create levels with low ceilings with stuff to collect right up next to them?

I suppose to its credit, Felix the Toy isn’t outright broken in any way – it works. But it is one of the most joyless, frustrating, tedious 3D Platformers I have ever had the misfortune to play. Even for its low $5 price, even for its inevitable $2 sale price, do not buy this game.

tl;dr – Felix the Toy is a joyless 3D Platformer where running and jumping isn’t fun, the graphics look boring, the sound design is incomplete, and the camera needs constant babysitting and blocks your view far too often. Do not buy this game.

Grade: D

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