Workin' the Z-axis.

Ah, the 3D platformer. Ever since Super Mario 64 landed and showed everyone just how good three-dimensional platforming could be, there have been developers hoping to capture just a smidgen of that game’s magic. It was a tough act to follow, even for the plumber himself, but his latest outing on Switch has him at the very top of his game.

However, despite having a reputation for hosting the finest of the genre, none of Nintendo’s platforms have hosted the breadth of 3D platformers we saw back during the genre’s N64 heyday. Those collectathons arguably went out of fashion in the early noughties when games like Halo heralded the ascension of first-person shooters on console, but every so often one crops up to remind us of the good ol’ days of Banjo-Kazooie and Glover.

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