Analysis of Raccoo Venture, platforms and echoes of the past

Raccoo Venture is a 3D platform game reminiscent of many greats of the genre like Crash Bandicoot or Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.

These days we have had the opportunity to play Raccoo Venture. I’m a platformer lover, but over the last third of the year I’ve barely touched the genre beyond a few games from the Crash Bandicoot remasters, FIST or Lana’s Planet.

Platforms are king.

This is why, when I saw the opportunity to analyze Raccoo Venture I did not think about it. Visually, it has a very recognizable style and aesthetic that resembles other platform games. So I wanted to see if we had a diamond in the rough on our hands. He remembers a lot of things, but a lot, New tale of Super Lucky a game that the public enjoyed so much.

To begin with, let’s say that 3D platform games, almost all of them, generally don’t have very elaborate stories. It’s a rare find to find a title that delves deeper into this aspect. Raccoo Venture is no exception and continues along this poorly developed plot. The main thread of the game is therefore quite simple. We are a funny raccoon who lives peacefully in his house It’s worth it.

White pieces and black pieces.

Peace reigns in Verta thanks to a magical relic that ensures balance. Such was the power of this relic that it was divided equally into black and white pieces to maintain balance. It is for this reason that the shape of a chessboard with all its pieces, the Venture Chess, was chosen. But one day, a group that wants to wreak havoc, called the tattooed tattoos, He decides to recover the relic and steals it from our protagonist Raccoo Venture, who has kept the family heritage for years.

Same old story.

Our goal is therefore to recover failures from the hands of enemies. To do this we will have to explore every nook and cranny of the maps that come our way and defeat every enemy that comes our way. The truth is that the story is not very motivating and barely fits into a world of anthropomorphic creatures (animals with human features) that populate Verta. It seems somewhat forced and inconsistent. However, it’s not bad and warrants exploration.

World of platforms.

The world of Raccoo Venture It appears green and pretty, with other decorations that are a bit darker or mechanical. This is a game with a good handful of levels, with a map in the style of Super Mario Galaxy or Crash Bandicoot, in 3D through which you can move to choose a phase or replay it in search of collectibles.

Raccoo Venture It has 5 areas, in which we have different phases. To begin with, we have the enchanted Forest, then The Crystal Cave, The Witch’s Castle, The Sandy Desert and finally The Lost City. Each of them with different biomes and very varied mechanics, which will make platform fans fall at their feet. And if we focus on “platforming” Raccoo Venture It feels and handles exceptionally well. Something that earns the title a lot of points.

Jumping, grabbing objects, operating levers and everything we do is done very subtly, lightly and with a manipulation worthy of a great title of the genre. The level design is good although simple, but as we progress more and more elements are included that will give the game a little more depth.

Gameplay.

One thing I don’t really like about the title is the functionality of the coins you collect. It’s quite limited. Additionally, the way to kill enemies is to throw an explosive mushroom at them or jump on them. This last move is not done very well and it becomes a bit tedious and tedious to attack like this all the time.

Basically because he doesn’t jump on it, he jumps on it and crushes it with your butt (with the jump combo of the “A” button plus “X” you hit the ground). This animation is somewhat slow, both when running and recovering. This means that when many enemies gather on the screen, combat is neither fluid nor agile.

One detail that I don’t like very much is that we don’t have a second chance if we fall. In other words, if you face an enemy, you have your life bar and you have margin. However, if you fall off a cliff on the map, you automatically lose coins and are sent to the bottom. checkpoint. Restore all enemies you killed. Personally, this made the game a little less appealing to me.

Level design.

The level design is correct, we cannot say that we are facing a game that innovates or that will bring us new things, but it implements well-executed ideas from many other titles. There are many moving parts, platforms, buttons, shortcuts, hidden areas and much more that will fill many hours of gameplay.

One of the big problems, and almost the only one, of Raccoo Venture, This is its technical section. For starters, the music is tedious and repetitive. It ended up getting in my head, but in a bad way. It sounds like the typical melody of a big, soulless parking lot. This is something unforgivable in a platform title, where the musical section is vital to immerse you in what happens later. Monotonous, soulless, without personality and not at all consistent with the gameplay of the game.

On the other hand, we must keep in mind that Raccoo Venture has arrived these days on Xbox, but it is a game that was released in 2019 for PC. In this sense, we see that the graphics section is not current, it lacks details and work in this aspect. It is very sparse in scenario details, as well as the number of scenarios. elements on the screen and physics.

CONCLUSION

Raccoo Venture It’s a platform game that will not disappoint fans of the genre. Its story is simple, but it works despite its simplicity. The level design is quite good and the best is its quality in terms of character movement during platform jumps. In combat it suffers a little but it’s not a big problem. However, it seems that Raccoo Venture arrives a little out of time, technically it doesn’t sound like a game title. 2023very limited in this aspect, if you don’t mind that it doesn’t look like a new generation, Raccoo Venture is an excellent platform that will transport you to decade the gold of the genre, the years 90. Without a doubt, good times await fans of these games. hours of entertainment.