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The Lego formula gets stale but it's good to have this game on Switch. Although it wasnt the best lego game even when iy was released,

JKA is a pretty, fun and moderately priced indie platformer. What's to love: 1. the controls are super tight and the game runs smooth (although 30 fps) so the very core of jumping, hovering and dashing is pure fun 2. the game is a looker, one of the prettiest 3D graphics in indie games at this price point 3. every level introduces something new, and some obstacles are really creative (bamboo sliding!, opening flowers to jump on them) 4. while the base game is on the easy side, extra challenges are punishing (in the good sense) 5. looking for the gold statues is fun because they are cleverly hidden 6. chase sequences are intense and I love paragliding - mainly it's difficult but fair (controls are near perfect, remember, in my opinion) 7. For a 2.5D platformer that doesn't try to be "deep" or "artsy", the story is surprisingly fleshed out and delivered in an interesting way (apart from the narrator, all dialogues are pictograms). What's meh? 1. Bosses, although have interesting attack schemes, are ugly. 2. Combat isn't deep, but I have doubts it was supposed to be. Enemies are more like another platforming obstacles 3. Musical segments are fun but not as much fun as in Rayman Legends 4. Some upgrades seem much more useful than others To sum up, it's a fun, fast and colorful platformer. Perhaps it doesn't reinvent the genre but t's really well-made and fills the lack of a new DKC pretty nicely.