About This Game FOX n FORESTS is a 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by the glorious days of 16-bit! Switch between various seasons on the fly, shoot and slash with your magic melee crossbow and snatch valuable loot to unveil the mystery of the 5th seasons. A thrilling pixel art fable with rewarding super secrets, screen filling bosses and thriving exploration. This is 16-bit how you remember it!5 SEASONS!Switch between various seasons to explore new areas, outfox enemies and uncover amazing secrets.MAGIC MELEE CROSSBOW!Wield a weapon like no other to shoot, slash, slide and switch seasons.FOXTASTIC FABLE!Help Rick the Fox uncover the mystery of the 5th season and bring back justice to the forests and its inhabitants.RETROTAINMENT!16-bit how you remember it with gorgeous pixel art and a catchy chiptunes soundtrack.ACTION PLATFORMER!A thrilling adventure with engaging RPG elements, clever puzzles and pixel perfect platforming. 6d5b4406ea Title: FOX n FORESTSGenre: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Bonus Level Entertainment, Independent Arts SoftwarePublisher:EuroVideo Medien Release Date: 17 May, 2018 FOX N FORESTS Pack The game overall is not bad, but it has some major flaws.Pros:- Good pixelated graphics,Cons:- Awful controls. For example, when you switch between seasons, you are unable to move for a brief moment. But this often resulted in me being hit by something or someone. Otherwise, if the controls were fine, this could have been easily avoidable. Sometimes you're unable to perform a dash, no matter how fast you hit the action button resulting in disturbed gameplay flow. Often enemies hit you because of that. When you shoot and if you press down, you don't crouch. You need to stop shooting to crouch. I think you should be able to crouch as you shoot.The controls don't actually feels tight.- Bad collision detection for some enemies. Sometimes you're in front of a rock and get hit by. Sometimes on slopes you hit the smash button, but you get hit by the enemy and the enemy didn't get a hit. There are some falling leave you should jump on them, but the space you can jump on them is too small and that often resulted in falling though them.- Backtracking. In some cases backtracking is not that bad, but in case of this game it's bad. Once you finish a level, there's little to no desire to go back. Although the graphics may be cool, the levels themselves are not that interested. Nothing too spectacular and repetitive, with repetitive enemies and patterns. And most of the time they follow the same formula. And the worst is, if you get killed, you lost all of your progress and you need to start from the beginning of a level. This becomes tedious. Even if there are some checkpoints, they costs you coins. I'd prefer if they were automatic. But no, you have to specifically tell that you want to save and loose some of your coins. Just great...And then, there's the grind mechanic. You also must backtrack levels to get coins, if you would like to upgrade your abilities. Actually, there's no "would". You NEED to upgrade anyway because I don't think you could progress further. Again, if you die and lost some amount of coins and save collected items, it would have been much better and acceptable, but as it is right now it's... meh.- Dropped coins stays for too short amount of time.- The default jump height seems not enouigh, as you almost all of the times need to double jump in order to get even on platforms that are literally above your head.- You can't press down+jump to jump down from one-way up platforms (like tree leaves).- Music. This is really my personal opinion, as some of you might like the soundtrack, but I don't like the music at all. It's actually the worst music this game could get. If the music was better, maybe I would have liked this game more. Sound effects however are fine.- There's no button to exit the game. Seriously, how such a big team (I've seen the credits) could have missed that?Really, this game showed potential, but at this point I can't give this a thumbs up. Maybe if they fix these issues.... You can only shoot bolts when you're standing, and have to melee when you jump\\duck\\look up? Can't they just separate the melee and ranged attacks to different buttons? Just assign them each to a button (X and B on a controller, which both do the same thing at the moment) and problem solved. How hard is it?Also, you can't attack when double-jumping, while there are plenty of respawning, floating enemies. I found this out after only 5 minutes into the game. What the hell is this BS? Refunded.. I am enjoying this game so far. It's a solid retro platformer that does have a neat gimmick to it. If you are into these types of games, then I would go for it. Be warned though, if you are not for backtracking older levels, then this one might not be for you. While I am enjoying this and feel like I got my money's worth, I feel like there might be people that disagree and it would probably be best to get this on sale. Which is understandable because there are plenty of 2D retro platformers on Steam. I do have some of issues with it.- The first one being that there are times that you might get stuck in between platforms and there would be nothing that you can do but quit out and lose all the progress that you had made on that particular level. I'm sure that this problem seems like it would be fairly easily patchable. Another note that someone else had recommended would be a button or command that would kill yourself so you can at least go back to the checkpoint, which is also be a good idea.- The other gripe that I have, and I'm not sure if its just me, but that text seems difficult to read. It's like the text blends into the background for me. - Some sections where you would transistion from a sesaon to another, you might be unaware to what the hazards are when you transition. The biggest example of this would be the fire level where you fly. Using the season change in this could kill you instantly when you didn't know there was something there to begin with. Though this might be a design choice from the creator.- There's no way to exit the game without alt+tabbing out.- Animal PunsAll in all I think that its fun, and while it has issues, they would probably be easily patchable. Plenty of the problems seem like quality of life problems, and most of the gameplay itself is fine. There is potential in this game, and it will no doubt be better on out from here.3.5 \/5. I wanted to love this game as it's music is fantastic, it's appearance and animations are top tier, but the actual responsiveness of controls and certain aspects of the platforming that rely on RNG hamper this from being the consistent SNES platformer experience that I expected this to be. I wanted to recommend this and maybe a patch will fix it but I'm not sticking around for that.. Green coochie-cutters are never in season, Rick.I'd like to think that Fox n Forests is the result of Zootopia's economic structure completely collapsing and the idea of electing honey badger Trump didn't work as well as everyone planned causing Nick Wilde to become a thief that dresses like a tramp. In Fox n Forests, you play as Rick the Fox, not to be confused with Nick the Wilde, as you embark on a journey to save the forest and the Great Season Tree. Although this is a solo journey, you will be accompanied, sort of, by a wise-cracking, Kentucky Fried pigeon named Patty. Aside from being the comic relief, she is also responsible for running the various shops as well as flying you to certain destinations on occasion. Changing the seasons is so much fun and you even get a different music track that plays for each respective season. The character animations are really fluid and enjoyable to watch and I hope you like puns because this game is punny AF. Standard stages and boss battles are challenging and fun to play. Don't you dare ask for a hint when the boss of each respective stage wrecks you! This game is a 16-bit symphony of colorful stages and great music. The game boasts eight stages, four boss battles, and four hidden-ish bonus stages to play. There are collectables in the game like seeds, stone wheels(?), and crystals to collect and with RPG-like mechanics implemented; you'll be at this game for hours trying to level up and find every little Knick-Knack in order to 100% the game. Even though I can't get enough of this game; I don't think that everyone will gravitate to it as I did. Enemy placement is vigorous and combining this with some of the level designs are downright diabolical. Also, you need to collect a certain amount of seeds in order to plant new trees(progress to different seasons) and that's a bit of a downer. Another pace-breaker happens when you're beaten by a stage boss. For some reason, you're placed back at the map screen and when you play the stage again you're forced to skip the dialogue in order to try again. IT WAS ANNOYING! The biggest sin this game has is Rick himself. If you are not grind happy or if you are not enfatuated with having your balls kicked on a regular basis, you may want to steer clear of this game. Rick's moveset is\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665poor at the start and he feels as stiff as a corpse until you start buying his abilities. So either you grind level one and other stages for a while to make Rick feel more fluid or you recklessly say goodbye to your virginity because this game is pretty \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665ing hard. I have NO desire to play a new again because I don't want to deal with stiff as a board, Rick, and that's kinda bad. There could be a new game plus option that allows me to put this guy in a mankini and I'd still pass...it's THAT bad. To clarify, just a little, I\u2019d gladly replay on a clear save file as opposed to starting over.Is it worth $10(I paid $8)? I honestly think that you should grind it out a bit at level one so you can play it because besides that little flub I totally recommend this game. I bought it twice. TWICE! I own it on the Switch and I grind my happy\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665to kill some time. Well that and I'm hoping the extra cash can be put toward a new wardrobe for Rick. I know your "naughty", sir (the game's description not mine) but put some pants on and lower that leg, I can see your cojones..... Not terrible, but hard to recommend this game in it's current state. Controls are broken and can only handle one key at a time, which isn't cohesive to fast-paced action platforming. Changing seasons is a neat mechanic, but freezes your character in place for an extended period of vulnerability and doesn't mesh with platforming.A good concept, neat retro art, but horrible execution and awful stages.Why punish a player by making them pay for checkpoints? Absolutely unnecessary and a\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665move to compensate for the lack of world they just make the game hard to the point of broken.There is no way to quit the game. No exit button. You have to alt-F4 out every time.At least I got it on a deep sale, but even then, I'd say get a better game.. You can only shoot bolts when you're standing, and have to melee when you jump\\duck\\look up? Can't they just separate the melee and ranged attacks to different buttons? Just assign them each to a button (X and B on a controller, which both do the same thing at the moment) and problem solved. How hard is it?Also, you can't attack when double-jumping, while there are plenty of respawning, floating enemies. I found this out after only 5 minutes into the game. What the hell is this BS? Refunded.. Look, I'm a fan of retro games, even more games composed of pixel characters and background, but that doesn't means I wont be harsh to this.The idea of the game is cool, a platformer where you use the power of the seasons to solve puzzles, the problem is that the game attempts to be more like "Dark Souls" than an enjoyable platformer.The Bayonet Crossbow is a good weapon, but there is no way of alternating between each other than by doing a key combination, if you use the attack button without jumping or holding down, your character shots arrows, if you are jumping or holding down, bayonet attack. That is a problem, even more if you want to shot small enemies, you can't, because your character will use the bayonet instead, the same is also valid for flying enemies, you have to depend on the bayonet attacks to be able to attack them.If you have played Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, you'll probably remember Lenny when reading Patty messages. And he's as annoying aswell.The game really wants you to be less greedy too, since to activate check points, you need to spend coins, SPEND COINS, TO NOT RESTART THE ENTIRE STAGE WHEN THE CHARACTER DIES. And the best part is, the stages are big, so if you die without buying a check point, you'll have to do the stage all over again, and lose everything you got during the stage. EVERYTHING.The keyboard controls are AWFUL! You use WASD to move, and Enter to attack. Why? Would be better to use the number keys or IJKL to do the game actions, and the best part is, Backspace uses items. Most of the time you'll do mistakes in the gameplay, and most of the time is because you get confused by the control schemes. Even though there is an alternative control set you can pick, the situation doesn't turn less awful if you do so.The game also countains a few enemies in stages, whose respawns way too fast, like, 3 seconds after you killed them, they respawn, that is an annoying thing, even more if that monster shots, or if you are doing some platforming jump.It also features a upgrading system, where you buy upgrades from one pidgeon shops in the town, the problem, is that when you try to buy the third or fourth ability for Rick, it shows "Coming Soon". Is this game WIP or something? I thought it was a full released game.Also, if you want to attempt a shot less gameplay of the game, don't try to use your bayonet to attack the first boss, because for some reason, the boss will turn into Thor just to retaliate your attempt of attack, It's like "Don't touch me, you flea bag". How the heck that frog is able release a eletric discharge? Also, the best part is that when you die in the boss fight, the game shows "Game Over" on the screen. Why? The game isn't over! My character died a lot of times and that didn't shown up, also, upon dying on the boss fight, it shows a window asking if you want to restart the boss fight, or get tips. So, If you can't figure out how the boss works on your first attempt probably means you're stupid? Not only to count that the tips are appearing quite... Soon? Maybe during the development of the game the devs couldn't figure out how the boss works, either.There are also a few cases of bugs in the game, like if your character dies while sliding down a rope, the character dies floating in the air, and some cases where when the character dies when jumping, the jump animation freezes, but the death music plays, and shortly after you respawn. But the most absurd issues surge when you unlock the area 2. Why is that? Because you will meet holes you can't get out, forcing you to quit the stage, so It's not so different from not using a check point, other than the fact you'll lose more time.And there is the best part to come, I still haven't beaten the game, because my patience also has limits, but during the stage 2-2, you'll discover that the game also has a sidescroller shooter session. I'm not an enemy of adding other game elements on the game, but making the stage be a freaking deathtrap isn't fun, even more since the character has only 1 of health, meaning that touching anything kills your character! At least on that stage the checkpoint is free, I guess.I tried to complain about several of those issues the game has on the forums, but then I discovered that the developers went Hello Games since 5 months ago, so they are nowhere to be found.Basically, after launching the game, they freaking abandoned it! What the heck?!So, do I recommend the game? No! Because not only It's really annoying to play, contains absurd mechanics, but also you have to ALT+F4 or click the X button on your window to close the game. This game isn't good! But isn't that bad either, that's why I'll keep trying to play THIS sometimes, but certainly it could have fixed some of it's problems and removed some of it's annoyances.If you still want to get this game, buy it when it's on sale, because on the full price you'll feel ripped off.If you want to see the complaints about the rest of the problems the game has, check out here: https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/603400\/discussions\/0\/1741100729961633901\/
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FOX N FORESTS Pack
Updated: Mar 17, 2020
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