October is full of new releases, but who am I to not carve out a few hours of the weekend to enjoy a quick video game? Especially if that game is based on watching a fox girl dance. The Fox’s Way Home is a low-entry game that may not need as detailed a review as I’m going to give it, but every game deserves critical analysis.
The game takes about 30 minutes to complete, and repeated playthroughs will probably shorten the duration. The idea is that you’re lost in a strange place when the Holiday Fox Maid offers to help you get home. The trick is to memorize her dance and appearance, and recognize any differences in performance over the eight rounds. There is also an option to suggest that there are no differences and that the fox girl is real. If you guess, you move on to the next round; if you make a mistake, you have to start over.
While the differences in the first round are simple, it is not always obvious what has changed. Although there are eight Encyclopedia pages in the game cataloging the differences found, most of the items are inserted between the girl’s breasts. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if the developers took advantage of the player’s view by changing the dance moves and requiring the player to memorize them. Right now, the camera is getting comfortably close to the vixen maid’s personal space, no matter how I try to control her.
The result of this is somewhat disappointing. Since most of the wrong items appear in the first few seconds of each round, you don’t have to wait long for the song to resume before moving on. This means that you often listen to the first four chords of the song. The game can be quite fast if you are lucky with the differences being easy to spot. Still, there’s also a high difficulty level you can unlock to test your skills, and the game features a surface narrative with a supernatural theme that perhaps wasn’t needed.
My favorite part was the optional costumes, but again, I think it was a missed opportunity to add a mode where players can watch the dance in unlocked costumes. It might be obvious why they didn’t include a dance-only mode, but I feel like the option should be there – you know, in case I want to learn that cool dance.
Graphical, The Fox’s Way Home is decent. The model of the main character is nice, and the options for 4k resolution nicely highlight the visual sharpness. Since there is only one environment, there is not much to discuss. All you could want from a game of this type is a photo mode and an endless dance mode, but neither is currently available. While what the game offers is nice, the target audience could finish everything in less than an hour. The only obstacle to quick completion is the randomness of the differences. Sometimes the same diff appears multiple times, so I wish there was an option to guarantee a new diff every round.
The Fox’s Way Home is a decent dance experience. The low stress level and light narrative eliminates any frustration you might feel in a spot-the-difference game, and the lovable fox girl makes the game worthwhile. You’ll know right away if this is the game for you, but whether you buy it at full price or wait for a discount is up to you. The game would have more replay value with additional mods, but in its current state it starts and ends too quickly.
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