A good Game for its price vaule, I suggest getting the game on sale since its the best vaule possible. I got about 2.5 hours on the game but you can beat it in less. I just wanted all characters to be unlocked. Overall a Good game just wish the devs spent more time onto one big game.

Toree 3D is a bite-sized platformer that gives you a small selection of 9 hand-crafted levels and asks you to stay as long as you like. If you want to rush through it all, and just beat and see every stage, you can do that in under an hour (this is what most people do), but for me, most of the fun was chasing the S ranks, a couple of which took some concerted grinding -- nothing too serious (I got all S ranks in 6 hours after all), but definitely a challenge for even the most experienced platformer fans. I'd even say that for its most infamous stage (Neo Osaka), there will be some players who will hit a brick wall and not be able to S rank that one at all.

There's a lot to like about this one. The base mechanics are dead simple: Toree can jump, double jump, and dash .. and that's it. You'll be holding that dash button the entire game (a la Super Mario Bros), so get ready to do some funky claw grip so you can also have your thumb over the camera controls at all times. Experienced platformer players are probably used to all this stuff, as Toree doesn't eschew convention at all, but rather embraces its simplicity and retro roots while having the performance and feel of a modern game. That final note might scare some folks, if they're looking for something more classic, but I'd say for the most part what it borrows from the modern era is all the good stuff: yes the coyote time is egregious and the landing collision is incredibly generous, but the way it is implemented just make for a higher skill ceiling actually. It's a speed game by people who clearly know what they're doing.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game is a gateway for some people to enter speedrunning, actually. Going for S ranks on the tougher stages has you contemplating speed strategies, and since the mechanics are so simple, it's small optimizations that get you there. That layering process of new strategies to slowly get your time down is part of the addictive loop that makes people love speedrunning, and it's present in a digestible way in this one. At some point, you would likely want to graduate from this game, and go to a game with more skill expression, but Toree is a wonderful start.

Level layouts are the highlight of course, as is true with any good platformer. Every level is special in its own way, and comes with a few unique mechanics which it asks you to master. Moving platforms, wind tunnels, boost pads, big hills (I LOVE the feel of this one) .. there is so much packed into each. None of the stages are more than a couple minutes long (and there's only 9 of them), but every bit of it is quality. No fluff, all gas. One small note is that the S rank times are quite uneven: for some stages it's very generous and I got it really quickly, and then for a couple of the harder ones you have to do genuine speedrun strats. I actually kind of enjoyed this unevenness, as the first few S ranks lured me into just going for them all, but I did find it kind of weird that the S rank for Neo Osaka is only 5 seconds (!!) off the speedrun WR time, but Starry Sky's S rank is a whopping 10 seconds off of its WR time. 5 seconds is a world of difference in a speed game and this amounts to a major difference in how easy or hard some S ranks can be.

I like the presentation ~a lot~. Feels very Sega Saturn-y (I'm thinking Ninpen Manmaru), harkening back to the birth of the genre. The music is solid as well, with 2 soundtracks you can choose from. Sound effects are cute (I love the sounds Toree makes) and the cutesy aesthetic of running around with your little guy in a 3D world is perfectly borrowed from that era, with a bit of a darker tone here and there.

Overall, Toree 3D is a true homage made by real gamers who get it. Yes, it's short, and most people will blast through it, but I'd contend that even for those people it is still a fun little romp, but for others, people like me, they'll love this little game. Can't wait to play the rest in the series. Great stuff.

really great bite sized game with a great style