Developer: Kong Orange
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
Release: October 17th
On: Windows
From: Steam
Price: 21.99 / $24.99 / 24.99
Felix The Reaper is a master of distraction. Instead of making him rush to move shadows about so he can set up elaborately fatal traps, all I want to do is watch this chubby lil’ reaper bust endless moves to the beat of his Walkman. and I mean moves: it would be ridiculous to call these “idle animations”, because this groovin’ dealer of death simply never quits. He’s a non-stop boogie machine, and watching him strut his stuff across the game’s tiled puzzlescapes is easily the most charming part of it all.
But as I said, it’s all a distraction: a cute but cunning smokescreen to hide what’s otherwise a fairly mundane, and often frustrating, puzzle game. There are some great ideas here to be sure. Even so, readability issues, an over-reliance on harsh speedrun requirements to unlock later levels, and a general failure to build on the game’s key puzzle elements in satisfying ways ultimately makes Felix feel more damned than divine.