Corn Kidz 64 Brings N64-Inspired 3D Platforming To Switch This Month

Where's Glover? (the remake)

Looks interesting. The movement and abilities seem fun.

I like the N64 look in general.

looks great hopefully it will get a physical release like frogun. i love these n64 look-a-like 3d platformers

Does look great 👍

I'll support this as I'm definitely in the "make new old games" camp. It's a great supplement to new new games!

Physical release is a good shout too.

Evercade @YoshiTails

This is the third N64-like modern indie game I've seen in recent times, after Cavern of Dreams and Kiwi 64. tbh after all the hunderds of NES style indie games, it's kinda fun to see all these 64 style ones. I never agreed with people who said N64 graphics look awful. They have their distinct appeal, and I'm happy to see developers who agree with that.

This game might interest me if the difficulty is not too low. I may like N64 aesthetics, but the N64 platformers I loved were quite challenging, so other recent titles like Cavern of Dreams or Kiwi 64 completely lost my interest when I realised they are very easy. I don't necessarily ask for a hardcore game, but at least something reasonable.

Not as much of a fan of most N64 era games except the very top entries of the console which were all time greats. I don't think most of them age that well. However, I like the trailer here of this N64 inspired game. A lot of interesting platform ideas and an interesting soundtrack

I agree that Super Kiwi 64 and Macbat 64 were very easy, but I didn't mind that. As cheap games they act as more of a palate refresher, an easily digestible dose of nostalgia and a reminder of how great the real Banjo Kazooie is. Still I'd enjoy playing something more meaty in this vein, and Corn Kidz 64 looks pretty sweet regardless of which way it ends up swinging.

Look fun! Character kinda looks like a 90's radified/rock version of Moomins or Bone.

Still dont like N64 visuals though, they haven't aged well. Much prefer when the gameplay style (or at least how we remember it) is taken across with more contemporary texture resolutions and polycounts.

Edit - no wait they look like Cerebus the Aardvark!

I'm always interested in this kind of games, but they always last a ridiculous amount, like 1-2 or max 3 hours at most, with everything.

I don't pretend to have a 40 hours game, but at least something that I can feel like an actual game and not a glorified demo.

$6.99 is extremely fair, I would absolutely pay more for this, and have happily paid more for similar-length games.

I just noticed that Diplodocus Games has been porting pretty much all of the N64 platformer indies to Switch, including Super Kiwi, Macbat, Toree, Cavern Of Dreams, and now Corn Kidz. It's nice that they've found their niche, and their ports have been pretty consistently clean.

This looks like it could be fun to play.

Funny how I just heard of this game in one of NitroRad's videos and he mentioned they should put it on the Switch and now here it is.

what happened to Snowboard Kids, why did they stop making them?

The game is great, but is a glorified demo. It's refereed as a "Pilot Episode" on it's store page and as "Episode 1" internally. There's only three levels and one of them is a tutorial.

Again, it's really good, but it does leave a satisfying conclusion on it's own. Wish the devs luck on future episodes.

Cavern of Dreams and Kiwi 64 feel like they just simply took the aesthetic of the N64 graphics to pitch their ideas that didn't feel flushed out enough.

This one though felt like it was an N64 game, like lost media type of feeling. Finished in modern era, but kept its original intended media feel.

This game felt a lot like Tonic Trouble, if that helps anyone.

Seen videos. It looks fine. Not as exciting as other 5th/6th gen platformers in ideas but it's passable. Good on Indie 3D platformers it's just their ideas don't excite me so I get really bored every time I see them going yep another one like this and that. No thanks. Tell me when something actually interesting character moveset wise happens because I haven't seen it yet they all have either similar or some fine ideas but they aren't great in the slightest. N64/PS1/Saturn had games with far better characters animals, gloves, human, etc., better movesets and level design then any of these platformers borrowing only from the big games of that gen and they all disappoint because they don't push further they play it safe.

I already have this game on my wishlist on Steam. For the quality of product you get, the price is absurdly cheap.

Corn Man Approved

Cavern of Dreams? I have their other stuff but I've never heard of this...

They will be adding support for the NSO N64 controller in the future, also.

@Wolfenpilot687 Let’s gooo! I used mine while playing the Steam version on my Steam Deck and it works fantastically.

@Rudolf
I can confirm that Corn Kidz 64 gets genuinely difficult, especially if you go for 100% completion. Without going into too much detail, I'll just say it's one of the very best platformers I've ever played. (I recently completed it on PC)
If you give this a shot and like it, other recent indie 3D platformers that I'd recommend are Pseudoregalia, and Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom.

@flighty Thank you for your message.
I'll definitely play this game soon.

@GoldenSunRM
I recently played this on PC, and it took me about 15 hours for 100% completion (110% completion in-game).
It would take much less on a second play-through, but the combination of exploration, puzzle-solving, and difficult platforming (particularly at the end) easily made this one worth the price. These sorts of games are also quality over length, which is a trade I will take any day.

@flighty 10-15 hours is totally fair and a good amount of hours.

Looking forward to this.

I don't know what it is exactly but something makes this look more convincing as an n64 game wannabe than some others I've seen.

Nitrorad said this one is rad, I'm giving it a shot.

I had the pleasure of playing the Steam release and let me just say, this is one of the better N64-style collectathons I have come across on the indie scene. It just feels so era-authentic, brimming with personality, and the movement system is very precise and fun.

Another excellent and more substantial one to have just released is Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom. Really hope that comes to Switch as well.