What's old is new, which is no bad thing when retro-style games combine treasured old gameplay styles with flashy modern visuals. We've seen a steady flow of 3D platformers in that vein over recent years, bringing to mind classics but in lovely HD.
Another making its pitch in this genre is Kukoos - Lost Pets, developed by Brazilian studio PetitFabrik and apparently 'coming soon' this Autumn / Fall. You can check it out in the trailer above and some PR blurb below:
- Cute n’ Cuddly Creatures: A bright, colorful, and super adorable aesthetic permeates the world and its quirky inhabitants
- Golden Era Inspiration: A platforming adventure reminiscent of golden-era classics like Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie
- Biomes, Biomes, Biomes!: Journey across beautiful and epic environments like ancient temples, lush forests, and of course, ice cream mountains and haunted pizzerias
- Become a Digital Ace Ventura: Meet and befriend five distinct pets, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and gameplay styles
It looks pretty darn good, drawing ideas and inspiration from a rather wide range of sources. This footage will be of the 'best' version of course, but hopefully the Switch iteration will be reasonably good.
One for the wishlist?
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I gotta say, that trailer was quite painful. Game looks fine though.
I know someone on here that might be all over this one 🤔🤔😂
Looks interesting. 🙂
I will keep my eyes on it.
Are my ears hearing that correctly at 0:39 mark?
"The Great Cock-toe-pus"
Because that is not how I would pronounce something spelt Kooktapus.
The earlier parts of that trailer were a bit hard to follow, but the game overall is looking to be super competent at the very least.
Like, the art direction and character designs gives me some strong "daytime cartoon" vibes, which is definitely not a bad thing.
@Anti-Matter see comment #2 😊
The music and sound effects on this trailer caused me significant physical discomfort.
Looks great! Not sure what the heck that whole story setup has to do with catching pets, but the gameplay looked good
A non-animal buddy platformer is a rare site.
I am down.
Fall Guys: RPG.
I'm from that 64 days. Looks like crap to me. Would've back then.
"..the n64 era" = usually makes me run screaming in pain reminding me of sore graphics, bad cameras and clunky controls.
However Kukoos looks interresting, colorful - the 2nd half of to trailer however was terrible. Too fast cut, too dark, scary (for young gamers like my daughter ).A bit more "Nintendo" cutness, colorful, sunny stages with managable learning curve and I might add it to my library later.
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