It's fair to say that we're really excited about how Fox n Forests is shaping up. Inspired heavily by the golden age of 2D platformers, German developer Bonus Level appears to be doing a fine job with its gorgeous, season-changing action game after a successful Kickstarter campaign way back in August 2016. It's due to launch on Switch in Spring this year, which is technically anytime now.
To celebrate this impending release, the lovely folks over at Bonus Level have shared a new gameplay video from level 1:2 of the game, known as Gorgeous Gorge, which you can watch above.
The game definitely brings to mind memories of SNES classics such as Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, but this melancholic, maze-like mountain stage with season-changing potential certainly has its own character - and lots of secrets to discover, too.
Are you looking forward to Fox n Forests? Let us know if you'll be buying this on day one with a comment below.
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Just like a Commodore Amiga game. Sign me up!
It really looks good and makes me feel nostalgic. I can't help but be intrigued.
Looks like there's a lot of exploring to do and secrets to find.
Excellent!
The level design looks a little easy but then again it is the second level. It's on my radar waiting for reviews. Side note: I've found it's easier this year to assume developers mean spring in the southern hemisphere, i.e. September.
Looks cool
I'd buy that for a dollar!
VERY believable adherence to SNES limitations.
And it looks super cute too. If such a crayon existed, you could color me interested.
It looks pretty good, something to keep an eye out for.
Lovely pixel art. And is that... season-changing, ala Oracle of Seasons?
Count me in for this one. Sweet, sweet retro vibe.
I'm a sucker for this types of games so yeah count me in.
@Shiryu Yeah, clearly Amiga inspired rather than SNES as the article states. Does an amazing job of it too. I had not heard of this until now.
@RunninBlue Well its 16-bit inspired, lots of vibes from a ton of Amiga, SNES, Megadrive and even a few PC Engine* choice games. I wonder if ounger gamers will like it...
*Yes, I know the PC engine is 8-bit but no one would think it was back in the day.
@Shiryu It truly is, isn't it? Certainly takes me back to those days. This is shaping up to be something quite special indeed...
@ThanosReXXX Of course the Amiga would have issues making all that run as smoothly... maybe CD32/ Amiga 1200 might be able to handle it at a lower screen resolution... maybe...
@Shiryu I don't think the Amiga 1200 would have trouble running it in full color as it is, albeit with an accelerator card. It would certainly run it way better than any SNES ever could.
And there have been quite a few impressive platformers on the Amiga already, which could certainly rival this game, both in graphics and in gameplay.
I am all over this. I hope it comes before the end of April as my gaming log becomes much more convoluted then and it might get lost in the shuffle
FINALLY something that resembles more 16-bit instead of 8-bit. All these 8-bit games have been making me sick as of late.
Im definitely buying this one.
@fiben1002 No worries, spring will be spring
@Ralizah The idea of switching season actually came to my mind when playing Ikaruga on the GameCube! Awesome game
@Bonus-Level Ah, cool. It seems like a neat little mechanic.
Nice sound design, too.
Looking forward to playing the game.
I wish it was in 4:3 aspect. Call me crazy but the widescreen pulls me out of the nostalgia somehow
I like the sounds.
Looks great. Two Final Fantasy 4 references in one sentence at 3:52. Sold!
As an SNES kid, this made me smile. I like how there seems to be plenty of collectables and extra areas to explore within a level. As a big fan of Oracle of Seasons, the ability to change seasons is great too.
This is a definite buy for me.
They had me up until the "Pay to unlock this checkpoint" moment. I'm not good enough at games to pay for "conveniences" like checkpoints.
@mauhlin12 Cool you noticed "Retro the Badger" has 30 fun things to say!
@RagManX Fair enough, this is why we made sure that you will earn enough gold from checkpoint to checkpoint to support "Retro the Badger" expand his collection of retro games
@Bonus-Level That's excellent to hear. I will probably get this knowing I have a reasonable chance of having the funds to unlock the checkpoints. I love gaming, but I'm really, really bad at it, so I have to have pretty easy gaming options available.
I remember seeing this on Kickstarter and being on the fence about it. Wishing now I invested! This looks amazing
@RagManX No worries, we have easy, normal and hard as difficulty settings. Easy is very forgiving! Hard on the other hand... my team blames me for making hard too hard *lol
Okay. I went from, “Hey, I never heard of this. What is this?” to, “Whoa, I wanna check this out!” I particularly love the music, from what I’ve heard.
Oh look another random 2d "retro" game for the eShop. Because we don't have any of those already. This on Switch is the equal of FPSs on Xbox.
Obviously a day one buy for me! ;3
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