Gecko Gods on Switch 2: uneven Zelda-lite made with love

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A cold-blooded puzzling adventure.

It took me the best part of four hours to click with Gecko Gods . Some may argue that my initial hesitations — about playing through a Zelda-lite 3D adventure as a gecko plucked straight from the wild, with little motivation beyond consuming bugs — put me in the wrong frame of mind from the start. But that was only a niggling kind of hesitation. The frustration that did for me, at least for a while, came from elsewhere.

First, let’s address the gecko in the room. I like to lose myself in games – to have my imagination free to notice connections and themes and ideas. And a gecko more or less presented naturalistically, without any characterisation is difficult to imagine as a lead character on a quest.

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