With coiled legs, an aggressive streak, and cute ears, kangaroos feel almost engineered by evolution to be the perfect mascot platformer star. Yet, with only a handful of early ’00s releases, the road for Kao hasn’t been smooth. This soft reboot puts on a good show, but before the bells clang more than a few problems will make you hopping angry.
Try to compare Kao to other platforming series and you’ll come up short. Not because it’s