Catch The Fox

Nothing new under the sun to me after decades of gaming, but. It's the kind of game kids will play endlessly trying to improve their catch time. Yeah, sure the game is basic, but as each level unlocks you have to work a bit harder, and take advantage of subtle game mechanics. So it has progression, but perhaps not enough progression to keep anyone but the kids engaged for an hour or maybe two. There is no story to...

3 found this helpful, 2023-06-21

TLDR: The games systems run counter to it's level design, and this makes feel kind of awful. Long Version The core of Catch the Fox’s gameplay is movement. It’s really the only thing you can do. Getting airborne gives you a speed boost on returning to the ground. This allows the player to skate merrily along. Or at least it would, if it wasn’t for a few issues. The Foxes you need to touch have a hitbox for...

2 found this helpful, 2023-05-10

There's very little to this game. The levels are all the same: randomly generated outdoor worlds with a minimal amount of extra features added by hand, with randomly moving foxes you must run into to catch. The core idea of the game might be fun - I recall catching the egg-holding wizards in Spyro with fondness, but those were hand-crafted levels with hand-crafted paths where the whole point was finding shortcuts,...

1 found this helpful, 2023-05-23