Rescue The Beagles Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · December 17, 2024

Rescue The Beagles Review, A challenging retro arcade platformer/runner with unique parallax-based gameplay. Rescue adorable doggies from an evil biohazard brigade in an intense, fast-paced parkour through colorful procedurally generated levels.

Rescue The Beagles Review Pros:

Beautiful graphics.
111MB download size.
Two soundtracks – Disasterpiece and Aesqe.
Offline leaderboards.
PvP rules can be set, such as rescue limit, start level, advanced levels, lives, med kits to extra life, respawn time penalty, respawn beagle penalty, and player skills.
Player skills are where you can manually adjust each action in the game for your character – aerobics, owl recruiting, goji digestion, swimming, beagle magnetism, and toxin resistance.
Instructions act like a game manual showing both controls and the gameplay loop in text form.
The Beaglopedia is a book of enemies and creatures.
Three game modes – Solo, local two-player co-op, and local two-player PvP.
Two playable characters – Edwin, and Nicole.
Lush 2D game world.
Full name entry for the leaderboards.
The soundtracks are excellent.
Simple controls of accessibility require more learning when to use them.
You play on a 2D plain but it has multiple levels and you can go up and down freely.
The goal of the game is to collect (rescue) Beagles and some are injured and require a med kit.
The game world has big drops, small drops, and cliffs to navigate. You use a parachute to negate fall deaths and rope to climb cliffs.
Find rope in the game world to use.
Owls can be collected and used to fire at enemies to get them to run away.
A very addictive gameplay loop.
The game world, enemy locations, etc are all randomized.
Avoid lab personnel and toxic lip balm residues.
The world is a rolling road so you never stay still.
At the end of a level, you get to pick one of the player skills to upgrade.
So much fun to play.
Locations can have multiple levels within them that adds a lot, you can grab ledges and levels to go up.
To finish a location you have to rescue X amount of Beagles before running out of lives.

Rescue The Beagles Review Cons:

You cannot edit the controls.
Cannot use the stuck for menu use.
No playable demo or tutorial section, it’s just text.
Took a few runs to get used to the gameplay flow and controls.
No online co-op, PvP, or leaderboards.
The biggest problem I had was just knowing and learning how far a fall had to be in order to kill me.

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