124: Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back

Number 124
(38.2 points)
Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back
1992: 22 (15.8)
1993: 45 (22.4)

Amiga Power loved their platformers, especially ones that showed the Amiga to be equal to its console rivals. Not sure if Titus the Fox is the mascot platformer to do it, but they seemed to think so.
Based on Les Aventures de Moktar, the very French setting and protagonist was replaced by a fox called Titus, named of course after the software company that created it. This feels very similar to their earlier game, The Blues Brothers, in that you run around a level with less emphasis on platform navigation and more on picking up and throwing objects at the enemies in your path. If you like Blues Brothers then this feels like more of the same, and the two-man reviewing team in Amiga Power rated it very highly.

Well, I was never all that amazed with The Blues Brothers - which seemed to have more lasting appeal to the magazine as it will appear later in this list - so I wasn't terribly excited by this. I'm not a fan of the control system: Titus is a bit slippery to control, and picking up certain objects (but not others) to throw at enemies is not a mechanic I like much. Hard to recommend these days, really.

Recommended TOSEC disk(s):
Titus the Fox - To Marrakech and Back (1992)(Titus)[cr NMS]