Togges (rhymes with bogies) is an imaginative puzzle platformer with a novel strategy to motion. The titular creatures are cutesy cubes you may spawn in from sure factors in every of the sport’s sizeable hub worlds. Basically enjoying as a Roomba, you may transfer pretty freely, however you may want to steer a related path of Togges to aims if you wish to full them.
Holding R2 permits you to regularly create a stream of Togges as you progress, whereas standing nonetheless will see them stack to achieve greater areas. Completely different colored Togges have distinctive properties; crimson ones can transport hearth, yellow ones conduct electrical energy, and so forth. You may want to make use of these skills and keep in mind your restricted provide of the little cubic characters as a way to attain collectibles and discover all of the fruit, which is what’s wanted to progress.
Levels are giant and open-ended, so you may discover them as you see match. You can solely begin spawning Togges at set checkpoints considerably goes towards this ethos, however a much bigger situation is how the creatures aren’t conducive to easy motion. When you come up towards obstacles, navigating them whereas sustaining a string of Togges is usually a finicky follow. It is all a part of the puzzle-solving, nevertheless it simply does not really feel notably intuitive.
The degrees are inventive, at the least, with distinctive environments to discover like a medieval fortress on a crescent moon, or a sprawling city atop a carrot cake. There are additionally extra linear levels to seek out, and smaller islands you may fly off to, Tremendous Mario Galaxy-style. Whereas it makes some odd selections in its design, Togges nearly wins us over with its experimental spin on platforming and no small quantity of whimsical attraction.