Kaze and the Wild Masks will likely feel very familiar to folks who’ve played a certain monkey-filled platformer, but still has its own charming personality.
In it, you’re out to save a loved one, and you’ll be hopping over a ton of irritable vegetables and bottomless pits to get back to them. Thankfully, you can spin your ears like a propeller to give yourself a little bit of gliding distance as you hop around. Apparently those ears have the cutting ability of a helicopter blade, too, as you can spin into vicious carrots and tomatoes to get them out of your way as well. I guess the vegetables in this world aren’t really keen on being eaten any more.
While these controls will feel pretty close to some old Kong-based gorilla games, as will many of the mechanisms and stages (expect to get launched from a device that isn’t a barrel, deal with enemies that need to be shut down with a stop light button, etc). That doesn’t make it just a copy, though, as the game offers many of its own platforming challenges. It also doesn’t mess around with its difficulty despite its cute appearance. You’re jumping around invisible platforms in the secret level in the first world, to give you an idea how quickly the difficulty spikes. It still feels fair with its checkpoint system, but just don’t come to the game lightly.
Kaze and the Wild Masks is a welcome game for those who miss their monkey platforming immensely, offering something close to it, yet different enough to bring you some new challenges to overcome.
Kaze and the Wild Masks is available now on the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, the Google Stadia Store, and Steam.
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