A game for kids that tries too hard to be Banjo-Kazooie.
Become a blobby creation to fight the corruption of shadow in Teeto.
Developed by Eat Pant Games you are a science experiment created by Nory, a rabbit whom you carry around in a backpack. As Teeto– some odd acronym of a name that makes sense for the purposes of this game – you have the ability to absorb objects in the world around you.
This slight ripoff of Kirby allows you to progress through levels, garnering powers along the way.
In this basic platformer, you’ll run around crossing some colourful environments while using the objects you absorb around you to help you progress further.
Along the way, you’ll also come across some items which you can collect to help the completionists achieve some additional sense of accomplishment. The items in question are Vionite and some odd creatures called Michaels.
Avoiding these won’t hurt your playthrough, though if you happen to come across them along the way you might as well pick them up.
As you would expect from a platforming game, you will run, jump and fight your way around – though fighting, which is reduced to some basic attacks, is really not at the forefront.
In essence, this game is truly kid friendly with barely any challenge.
There really isn’t any sense of difficulty here, with things you’re encouraged to find pretty much out in the open and even the objects you absorb to progress along the way are generally right in front of you to use.
For the average gamer – especially those who grew up playing the likes of Banjo-Kazooie or even the colourful yet annoyingly mishandled Yooka-Laylee of the late 2010s – this game is probably not for you.
In fact, aside from those under the age of 10 whose parents fail to act like a parent, there probably isn’t much of an audience clamouring for this.
Plus let’s be real, those kids mentioned above have probably been playing and watching inappropriate things on screens for too long and even most of them won’t find an interest in this game.
Graphically the game is sound and playing this on the Switch 2, things looked as good as you would expect. There’s nothing to show that this game would be testing the strength of an already fragile console, but considering Cyberpunk can run the blob and bunny game has no issues.
We are a few months past release date anyways so any bugs which might have been around seem to have been squashed out as the game plays just fine.
The only issue is that the game just is not good.
There is no challenge here, the puzzles are very basic, and the fighting is akin to blowing down a house of cards. Sure, there is some witty dialogue throughout the game, but you can go to a comedy club and get better, rather than play this game.
As far as platformers go, Teeto is just an alright game that players who are really itching to play should still wait for a sale to pickup.
Teeto was reviewed on the Nintendo Switch 2 after receiving a key through PressEngine.
