Kazu the Cassowary puts a claw-kicking bird on a river of floating islands
A young cassowary chases his captured parents across rainforest, canyon and snow, and the stills say this platformer is built around reading the path ahead.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
A cassowary is a strange choice of hero and a very good one. Big legs, a blue neck, a pink wattle and a reputation. Kazu the Cassowary, from Kodybod Studios, leans on all of it. The setup is simple. Kazu's parents have been captured and he is going to get them back, on his own, across an Australian-inspired world the studio splits into rainforest, coast, canyon and snow. The verbs are run, leap, claw-kick and stomp. That last pair matters. A platformer hero with a kick built into his legs has a reason to land on things, not only near them. Islands in a river full of crocodiles The strongest...