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FixFox is part puzzle game, part sci-fi adventure, all chillSay it six times fast
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If you need to tape some frayed wires back together, for example, then your favourite would be electrical tape. But since you lost that, you can use a plaster, cos that’s adhesive, and therefore also has the Tape quality. At one point I did’t have a plaster, but I did find a rogue postage stamp I’d forgotten I picked up. Voila, also a sticky friend to repair wires. You can unscrew screws with something Flat, like a coin or, perhaps, a spatula. So FixFox encourages a bit of lateral thinking. Sometimes these mechanic jobs are required for story progress, but others times they’re just things people would like done, for which they’ll pay you with a new item, like a banana.
Part two is that you have to be careful not to rob too many of the Free Pirate Brigade stashes, or fix too many things. Both these are on a sort of countdown, and if you do too many of either then the Pirates or the Order Of Tools will turn up and requisition any of the illegally useful things you have on your person (the former because you nicked your stuff from their stashes, and the latter because they are sort of tool purists who object to any unsanctioned toolery). Thankfully, you can reset that timer at any radio in the area, plus getting new tools doesn’t seem to be too much of a hassle if they end up getting confiscated. FixFox appears to be mostly a chill, non-violent game about helping some robots.
I’m anticipating FixFox’s release later this month quite a lot now, because while it is (whisper it) a wholesome game, it also doesn’t skimp on being weird and interesting. You have to take new things you find to an oracle who will tell you what properties they have. Tin is constantly worried that you’re going to die, and will sometimes give you instructions like, “Wait here for a hundred years,” which appear as quests in your quest log. Except, of course, you’re supposed to ignore them. Tin’s function as a tool box is just that - a box, with no compartments, so it’s just a big jumble you have to scrabble through. I found an area called the Ceramic Lake and after a bit of inspection realised it was an old, mostly empty swimming pool.
