It would likely only take me another couple hours to get everything Fe has to offer, but I’m not left wanting to. After beating the story, the map opens up and you can see how many collectibles you’ve missed in each area. The similar environments combined with the slow movement and generally bland platforming challenges discouraged me from really wanting to explore to the fullest, and made the idea of going back through an old area with my new abilities and songs more tedious than exciting - especially when abilities like the run felt like it should have been there from the start.įe is pretty short as well – it only took me about three hours to complete.
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I was excited to hunt for these at first, but my patience wore thin before long.
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While Fe is a relatively linear game, each area has lots of nooks and crannies to explore, some of which hide collectibles that you can use to unlock new abilities. As a result, the distinct style that makes Fe so pleasing to the eye at the outset quickly begins to feel a bit one-note and repetitive. But while those colors shift from area to area, the environments themselves don’t change nearly as much. It was wonderfully reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus, but was also brief and the only moment like it.įe uses a lovely mix of polygonal landscapes with washed out, monotone color schemes that set it apart from other recent platformers and make its forest feel strangely mystical. One sequence had me leaping between trees that were growing out of an enormous creature walking around the map. Fe’s best platforming moments were generally best when it leaned into this ability.
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You can scamper up nearly any tree with a series of lightning-quick hops, then leap from them for extra distance. The major exception to this is Fe’s tree climbing, which is snappy, adorable, and a lot more fun than just walking around. That makes the times I did miss a jump and had to do a section over pretty frustrating - it wasn’t all that rewarding to complete the first time around, much less the second.
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There generally isn’t much challenge to the obstacles put in your way, and your character can often feel slow and a little clunky instead of spry and fun to control. But beyond the singing, Fe is first and foremost a 3D platformer, and it’s resoundingly average in that regard.