Big Hops has great veggie-powered movement before it gets lost in the weeds
No genre is as unforgiving as the 3D platformer. It's not just that you inevitably invite comparisons to some of the best games ever made (all of them starring Mario). It's that the basic elements of the genre - precision platforming, expressive movement, a camera generous enough to show it all - are only ever an inch away from plunging the player into miserable frustration.
So it is with Big Hops, which is a hop, skip and a jump from Mario Odyssey and yet, in its worst moments, feels more like a big oops.
The Big Hops release trailer.
You play as Hop, a little green frog who lives in a forest with his mother and sister. Through an encounter with Diss, a kind of ambiguous trickster genie, he is whisked away to the void, a purple dimension of floating islands with topsy-turvy gravity reminiscent of Mario Galaxy. The void, in turn, connects to other worlds, and Hop must venture through a desert, tropical islands and deep mines to figure out Diss's motivation and collect parts for an airship (reminiscent of Mario Odyssey) that can take him home.
'There are basically no 3D platformers on PC that feel as good