The right Ruff.
Sometimes I’ll get asked to review a game that doesn’t immediately feel as though it really falls within my wheelhouse. At all. And I have to admit, as much as I do love the look of Ruffy and the Riverside, with its 1980’s kids-TV-show-styled characters, replete with visible marker strokes from having been coloured in, I definitely felt(tip) as though we were destined to rub each other the wrong way.
And this, my friends, is what happens when you fall into the trap of judging a you-know by its whats-it, as what’s actually here is a delightful 3D platformer in the now classical ‘late 90s/early 00s’ style. Yes, barring some reasonably light performance hiccups (on both Switch and Switch 2), this one is well worth your time, and doubly so if you happen to be a younger gamer, or a wretched old has-been (moi) who just wants to feel the joy of millennium-era gaming one last time. It’s a first try from Zockrates Laboratories as well, so hats off to the developers.
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