Toree’s Panic Pack prices 89p. 99¢. That’ll most likely both perk up your ears, or make your face twist in affordable scepticism. Fortunately, as with all of the earlier Toree video games, it’s completely worthy of the previous and positively not the latter.
Earlier video games within the collection of brief and vibrant 3D platformers have had a mantra of ‘straightforward to select up, troublesome to grasp’, and when you’ve indulged in any of them and have been hankering for one thing a bit extra ‘troublesome to select up, aching to grasp’, nicely you’ve struck gold right here, sunshine.
Toree’s Panic Pack is a set of three smaller video games aimed squarely on the skilled small yellow chook pilots of the world. You’ve acquired Toree Genesis, a pleasant little three-stage romp; Toree Jumbled Jam 2, which introduces 4 extra, far longer phases than these in Genesis; and lastly Toree Missions. We’ll get again to that final one in a bit.
All of the seven new phases current within the first two video games rank you in your pace, have a sprig of stars to gather, and Genesis even hides three ‘Shards’ in every of its phases, permitting you to unlock Tremendous Toree, bearing implausible pace and extra responsive turning and motion.
And that is the place Toree’s Panic Pack (and each Toree recreation, frankly) comes into its personal. You’ll seemingly blast by as soon as to achieve the aim, one other to gather all the celebrities, and myriad extra to realize that wonderful S Rank. A single playthrough of those two might solely take you half an hour, however Toree is simply a lot enjoyable to manage, it’s nothing however a pleasure to return and clear these bite-sized bonus challenges.
As we alluded earlier, although, this ain’t your grandma’s Toree. Toree Jumbled Jam 2 particularly ramps up the issue to levels not but seen within the collection and, by Jingo, are they satisfying to lastly grasp.
Toree Missions then again… let’s simply say the cranium subsequent to the ultimate row of six is completely on level. There are 24 missions in complete requiring you to finish duties reminiscent of defeating all of the enemies, accumulating all the celebrities, or navigating sporadic platforms in low gravity. They’re moderately easy to start with, however their problem solely ever will increase as you progress. You’ll should be a real Toree grasp to finest these phases.
A number of the phases on this assortment don’t really feel fairly as refined as these present in Toree 3D or Toree 2, and the sport’s arcade-like nature means it received’t maintain your consideration for hours and hours on finish, however what Toree’s Panic Pack units out to do, it achieves with ease. It’s a enjoyable and quick 3D platformer with stunning replayability (i.e. a Toree recreation), a rock-bottom value of entry, and a heaping barrelful of allure to fall in love with.
