Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $7.49.
- Story and characters: 64 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 60 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 43 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 16 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 3k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The unlockable boomerangs are varied (if sometimes redundant or situational), the environments are surprisingly beautiful and full of life, the music is top-notch, and the character dialogue is stuffed full of Australianisms like you wouldn't believe.
The gameplay is your standard collect-a-thon platformer with a bunch of stuff to collect like cute small imprisoned Bilbies, Opals, Golden Cogs that you use to get different types of Boomerangs, Thunder Eggs which is the items you collect to drive the story forwards, Rainbow Scales which will give you more HP if you collect them all and Picture Frames which unlocks concept art and if you collect them all you unlock a movie.
The textures have been improved and the game looks great despite the PS2-era polygons.
I never played this game though since I never managed to get my hands on it when I was young but I played the second game Bush Rescue religiously and even then this game managed to make me feel super nostalgic with the Australian themed soundtrack, the sound effects I recognized from Bush Rescue and to just see Ty on my screen once again.
Such a classic game, easy controls to pick up, as well as controller support!
This semi-linear approach is effective because you hardly ever feel lost (and even if you do, every level counts with a map that you can look at by pressing the menu button) but it still gives you something more to do than simply going straight from start to finish.
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Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $7.49.
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