“Pardon My French Toast is a 3D platformer starring a slice of toast who covers himself in sweet spreads to get fun abilities.” – Steam Description

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Pardon My French Toast is a 3D Platformer game that follows a young toast who has stumbled onto a ticket to board a luxury cruise. Once you make it to the ship, aka beat the tutorial, you come to find that it’s not all it was advertised to be. Mr. Jam Session, the owner for the cruise ship, forces you to explore islands far and wide to find huge candies to power the ship. Make sure to meet the other toasts on the ship and help them throughout your adventure as it will unlock new things to help you on your way!

Bready To Go

The game starts out strong in a sugar coated wonderland as you race to catch the ship. I think this would have been more interesting if you were actually racing against a timer, but as its the start of the game maybe they didn’t want to put that kind of pressure on their players.

Once you get to the ship Jam Session starts sending you to floating islands to get fuel. This pun filled journey quickly gives you the first of many abilities. Honey Toast helps you stick to honeycomb walls, swinging spoons, and also lets you pull or push certain objects. Soon you’ll be swinging into the next world and a new ability is unlocked. In the Jungle you learn you can cover yourself in hardened chocolate to create muscles to destroy things and become heavier. While playing the demo this is what sold me on this game. It was so silly and unexpected that it had me laughing.

As these are the only abilities that they outright tell you about on the steam page I’ll save the rest for you to discover on your own if you choose to play. I will say that as you progress you will need all the abilities you learned in previous levels and even come to combine some of them for even more powerful affects.

Platforming Is The Yeast Of Your Worries

While there are no enemies to speak of there are issues to overcome. The Honey Toast was the start of my problems. To climb walls you need to hold down Right Bumper. However, while the button is being held down sometimes, for no discernible reason, it would act as though it was let go. Since you need to climb with this ability when it just gives out on you more times than not it means the end for you. This would also happen mid-swing on the spoons sometimes. Luckily you just go back to the closest checkpoint and there are no lives to lose. So this just made the game more difficult and not unplayable, but it led to a lot of frustration on my part as I played. I checked my controller to make sure that wasn’t the problem and it works just fine on other games.

Since this game is a 3D Platformer that means there are sometimes edges to things that you don’t see when you are jumping or jump dashing. Halfway through a dash over a pit all of a sudden I’m hitting something invisible and dying. This was not as common as my issues with the Honey Toast ability but it happened enough to bring it up. It, again, was mostly just inconvenient but not game breaking. My final issue is one I needed to abandon a level all together for. It was a special level from one of the NPCs. I did everything I could think of to get the button to respond. I reset my controller. I tried switching it to keyboard. I tried resetting the checkpoint. I was able to do the level once I quit out of the game and restarted causing me to lose all my progress and it was the ending of that level. This left a bad taste in my mouth and truthfully I didn’t play after it.

• Graphics– Cute and fun. This games style screams whimsy from the icing coated mountain tops.
• Gameplay– There are some flaws in the controls which bring this score down but the level design and mechanic concepts are fun. With some post release updates to fix some of the control issues this could easily be a 7.
• Sound– Fun and upbeat but could get a touch repetitive. It wasn’t enough to make me turn the sounds off which is pretty good when it comes to me.
• Controls– There are some bugs I was running into. Such as holding buttons and the game would think I was letting go. There was one whole level I had to leave and give up on because it wouldn’t register Y in the game but it was working elsewhere on the level. Tried to switch to keyboard and that didn’t fix it. Mostly this just make things more challenging and not completely unplayable. The game is not keyboard/mouse friendly.
• Story– The story isn’t what kept me playing the game. It’s not one that’s going to grab you and keep you hostage while you lose sleep to finish the game. It’s a pun filled comedy of a story made for laughs and not deep thinking.