Corn Kidz 64 nails the throwback collectathon essentials. There are a variety of interesting player movement actions that need to be combined to overcome dozens of platforming challenges placed in an irreverent, cartoon world that expands the more it is explored. The strongest individual element is the art direction, where rascally goat kids are faithfully recreated as low-poly models in a dream world of a cartoonishly exaggerated middle-of-nowhere town. What separates this game from similar recent titles is that it's level design is much more focused than others in the genre. There really is only one traditional collectathon level, and that level is designed very deliberately to guide players towards finding isolated challenges / rewards. That design also means that the player will reach dead ends they can't quite get past, forcing them to travel back and forth between different locations in order to make progress. It's awesome for mechanically reinforcing the importance of exploration, but if a player isn't familiar with the tropes of the collectathon genre it will be hard for them to parse those dead ends as anything other than a stop sign. If you can tolerate the slight annoyances of the genre, this is a collectathon well worth playing.

Corn Kidz 64 nails the throwback collectathon essentials. There are a variety of interesting player movement actions that need to be combined to overcome dozens of platforming challenges placed in an irreverent, cartoon world that expands the more it is explored. The strongest individual element is the art direction, where rascally goat kids are faithfully recreated as low-poly models in a dream world of a cartoonishly exaggerated middle-of-nowhere town. What separates this game from similar recent titles is that it's level design is much more focused than others in the genre. There really is only one traditional collectathon level, and that level is designed very deliberately to guide players towards finding isolated challenges / rewards. That design also means that the player will reach dead ends they can't quite get past, forcing them to travel back and forth between different locations in order to make progress. It's awesome for mechanically reinforcing the importance of exploration, but if a player isn't familiar with the tropes of the collectathon genre it will be hard for them to parse those dead ends as anything other than a stop sign. If you can tolerate the slight annoyances of the genre, this is a collectathon well worth playing.