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Leo's Fortune

Playstation 4 Version

            Yet another mediocre title gracing the Playstation 4 home entertainment console is Leo's Fortune, a downloadable platforming video game with very little to offer other than basic platforming action and a moral lesson. Leo, an unidentified little green puff ball with a thick mustache, essentially woke up one day and realized that his entire fortune went missing. But who exactly took his fortune? This is the essence of the game, taking Leo on a quest of easy platforming action from underwater caverns to the peaks of titanic snowy mountains.
            Leo's Fortune comes across as both easy and unimpressive at first, yet the moral of the story improves the game, albeit to a minor degree. Indeed, the platforming action heats up through campaign progression, but with two-dimensional platforming titles having completely inundated the digital market of current generation consoles, the average platforming player isn't likely to be thrown for a curve ball. Players experienced in the platforming genre will likely run through the game on their first try in just a couple of hours.
            The complexity of puzzles and platforming sequences in Leo's Fortune on a scale of one to ten is about a three, and the average player will likely find his or her self bulldozing through the entire game with absolute ease. To simplify the game even further, Leo is controlled with just two buttons; the cross and square buttons. The cross button gives Leo the ability to jump, and the square button allows him to quickly snap back down to the ground, the latter of which has various uses including downward water navigation and applying pressure to certain objects. Although the majority of platforming in Leo's Fortune is relatively easy, that doesn't change the fact that the character himself sometimes feels loose and sloppy, although it's certainly not game breaking.

            Throughout his quest, Leo travels through five different worlds, each of them with four standard levels. Four of these worlds have an unlockable bonus level, although the final world does not. For players looking for additional content, Leo's Fortune doesn't have anything to offer platforming fans outside of the main campaign besides the unlockable "hardcore" mode, which is available after campaign mode completion. The hardcore mode is not for the faint of heart, however, since players only have a single life throughout the entire game. For players who genuinely enjoyed the game, however, the hardcore mode could end up being an absolute blast. Worth noting is the fact that, at the time of this review, only seven people are listed (on the global leaderboards) as having completed the hardcore mode for the Playstation 4 version of Leo's Fortune.
            Leo's Fortune teaches the lesson of not letting the less meaningful details of life rob you of your true fortune: personal relationships. The video games ending turns out to be a pleasant one, and the platforming action tends to intensify through campaign progression. Yet with the inundation of mediocre two-dimensional platforming titles in the current generation digital market, Leo's Fortune simply does not offer players of the platforming genre a unique alternative to what has already been done countless of times.

Overall Rating

6.4/10

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