Fe: Is This Upcoming Platformer As Sly As A Fox?

Damn Nature, You Scarily Beautiful!

Platform adventure games have escalated in quality so quickly over the last few years that its hard to keep track of which ones blew us away the most. The downside of this is of course many potential gems are overshadowed and lost in the cracks when a true juggernauts makes an appearance. After all, what can compare to the awe-inspiring beauty of Journey or the unabashed fun of Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy? 

While it may be too early to tell, we can’t deny our intrigue at one upcoming platformer that looks to be taking cues from the aforementioned games while also trying to make its own stamp on the genre.

According to an article on Eurogamer – 

Developer Zoink’s beautiful nature-themed platform adventure Fe will launch on Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC on February 16th.

Fe was announced back in 2016, as part of EA’s indie game publishing initiative, EA Originals. It sees players guiding the titular Fe, a fox-like creature, through a vibrantly stylised “living, breathing” forest ecosystem, communicating with the flora and fauna through song in order to defend the world from hostile entities known as the Silent Ones.

EA describes Fe as “a new type of platform adventure where the story is up to you to discover, without handholding, told wordlessly through the discoveries you make during gameplay. Climb, glide and dig your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets, side quests and mystical creatures”.

Do you think this fox has what it takes to stand out amidst a torrent of stellar content as the year gets underway? Or will it amount to nothing more than a beautiful-looking reminder of better platformers?

Be sure to check out the trailer for Fe below, as well as our picks for the Top 10 3D Platformers!