TOODEE AND TOPDEE
This puzzle-platformer puts everything into perspective
Developer/ publisher Dietzribi
Format PC
Origin Israel
Release 2021
Toodee takes a leap of faith, the trajectory of the little blue creature’s jump clearly doomed before their feet leave theground. It’s the kind of missed jump we know from a million restarts in platformers past. But this time, it’s not the result of misjudged timing or poor reaction times. Toodee’s hop into the abyss is all part of the plan.
At the tap of a button, time freezes and the perspective shifts, revealing Toodee to be exactly what their name suggests: a flat sprite. The hills and clouds of our former backdrop are now underfoot, a mosaic on the tiled floor we shuffle across as Topdee, a green creature only glimpsed from above but wrapped in what appears to be a zipped-up hoodie. From this overhead view, platforms are transformed into shoulder-high walls or, in a few cases, moveable blocks. Topdee pushes one of these beneath the feet of our apparently doomed leaper, we switch perspective once more, time unfreezes – and Toodee lands safely.