**Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom** is a cute lil 3D Platforming game where you play a Yellow Taxi that goes vroom. What's interesting about this game is that it's the first 3D Platformer I've ever played with no dedicated jump button! You'd think this would make it not fun but it actually works very well. You pretty much only only have one move, which is a dash, but that dash opens up in all sorts of interesting ways: - If you tap the dash button twice, you'll flip the taxi and bounce - If you dash up an incline, you can fly super high in the air - You can dash again in the air - And so on! There are also power-ups you can pick up as the game goes on, including an invincibility token and a token that lets you propel up in the air up to three times. ![[Thoughts on Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom-20240705131525771.png]] It all feels really good and works super well. There are a ton of levels and ~~stars~~ gears to collect, though you only need half of them to complete the game. There's a shocking amount of variety in the level design given the somewhat limited amount of power-ups, which is pretty impressive! I enjoyed my time with it overall! It plays well like I said, the music is great, and there's a lot of stuff to do if you're a completionists. There's not a lot to complain about if you're a fan of this genre of games, and it's probably the most polished one of its kind since **A Hat in Time**. I think the worst part about the game is just its humor, to be honest. It is highly hit or miss. Some of the jokes, like the stuff in the Gym level or the level with the sentient pizza, hits great! But then you get some boring fart joke or a reference that would only make a millennial chuckle / grimace and you're just like. Okay LOL. I also didn't like that some stuff is locked off by progressing in the campaign to unlock power ups. I spent a lot of time wandering around trying to see if I needed to hit a switch or something like that, only to realize that I should have just kept progressing the story mode. ![[Thoughts on Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom-20240705131549008.png]] But beyond that, check it out! I continue to believe that the world is the way it is now because we stopped heralding 3D Platformers as the "AAA" game type. It's all been downhill ever since. **Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom** will remind you of those good old days, before bananas became the most expensive they've been in the past two decades.