

Mechanics like these make a supposedly friendly game unnecessarily frustrating. If you miss while in the air, however, you can’t shoot it again. As long as you’re grappling and colliding, you can proceed to fire your gun again while airborne. While jumping and shooting your Frogun while aiming at certain grappable spots can be tricky if you’re in a hurry, I had no issues just pacing myself, aiming properly, and just shooting my tongue away. It’s a pity about the controls, especially the titular Frogun. It helps that Frogun has a quaint simple 3D aesthetic. If you’re a one-and-done kind of player, you may find some fun in Frogun for the first 4 hours or so, but completionists and achievement hunters will find lots to love in replaying Frogun’s levels in a challenging new light.

You get these post-stage rewards for finding all the coins in a level, completing the level without dying, finishing the stage faster than the intended time, and collecting hard-to-reach green emeralds and purple demon stones. While that makes the majority of Frogun a breeze to complete since there’s no lives system -you just restart from your last checkpoint if you fail- the challenge actually comes from getting special Fly medals. Anything is fair game to grab and latch onto, meaning you can get creative in crossing from point A to B in the fastest and most efficient way possible. The “hook” here is that your Frogun shoots its tongue out to either grab enemies, pull objects, or pull yourself onto walls to cross over pits. Jump & SnagĪs you can tell from the title, Frogun is about a little girl named Renata who has to rescue her archaeologist parents from the depths of the ruins using a frog-gun hybrid as her sole weapon. OUr next entry? The endearing-looking Frogun, which may seem typical, but hides a sadistic streak amidst the toothy grin of its kid protagonist. The wave of 3D platformers for this generation with 90s aesthetics continues, with some of them featuring some semblance of quality behind its aesthetics. Genre: 3D platformer with a grapple hook in the form of a frog’s head on a gun Platform(s): PC, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch
