[h1]FoxMania: The Quest To Review All Fox Games On Steam![/h1]
[i]Conditions for inclusion:
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[*] -The player character must be consistently a fox; the fox must not be merely a skin or a character option
[*] -Must have 100% working Steam achievements
[*] -Must not be a visual novel
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[b]Game #17: Run Foxy, Run![/b]
Take a jog down an infinite path littered with hunting traps, and... um... snatch slices of cheese from the beaks of a hundred crows. Each crow is holding a random amount of cheese, though some aren't holding any at all. Steal enough cheese, and one of the crows will carry a key to unlock the next playable fox, which are all able to take a hit from a single kind of trap (which doesn't have much of an impact on gameplay since you can't exactly see the traps that are coming before you hit them, but hey, it's an attempt at variety). Once all foxes are unlocked, you play for high score.
At first, this seemed like the bare minimum of a competent game, and I wanted to give it credit for that. Yeah, it's mobile shovelware with barely any content, but you can tell that the tiniest little scrap of love and care was put into this, especially considering the quality of some of the other games I've played on this list.
Unfortunately, this devolves a bit into an IQ test of how long it takes you to ignore the crows altogether and just jump over the traps. Jumps are fixed animations with a very long cooldown, so you'll probably crash the moment you start trying to react to the crows. The idea is never to jump unless you're jumping over a trap, or unless you just jumped over a trap less than a second ago. Otherwise, the crows are all just useless distractions that you just have to watch fly past.
Get into a nice rhythm, and this becomes more like a sheep-jumping-over-fences simulator. Zzz.
On top of that, some fun technical problems:
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[*] -Selecting the final fox disables the arrow keys in-game, basically a softlock, so you can't unlock their power unless you quit and restart.
[*] -One time I hit the side of a trap just right, and the fox turned sideways, started running up the side of the screen, spinning around wildly, and ran into the sky.
[*] -There are three broken achievements, the ones for getting 512, 768, and 1024 points. (Unless the idea is to game over with exactly that number of points, which I'm not going to attempt, thank you.)
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2 / 10.
