Kick & Fennick

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Kick & Fennick
Kick & Fennick (Cover).jpg
Developer(s) Jaywalkers Interactive
Abstraction Games [1]
Publisher(s) Green Hill [1]
Composer(s) Jonathan van den Wijngaarden [2]
Platform(s) PlayStation Vita, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
ReleasePlayStation Vita
PlayStation 4, Wii U
  • WW: 2 June 2016
Xbox One
  • WW: 3 June 2016
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Kick & Fennick is a platform video game developed and published by Dutch indie studio Jaywalkers Interactive for PlayStation Vita. It was released in North America on 3 February 2015 [3] and in Europe the following day. [4] The game was also released free for PlayStation Plus members. [5] On 28 January 2016, Abstraction Games announced on Twitter that they are bringing the game to Nintendo's Wii U. The two companies announced that the game will be released on the PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One in June 2016. [6] [7]

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Reception

Kick & Fennick has received mixed reviews, holding a 64% score on GameRankings [8] and a 65/100 on Metacritic. [9] Writing for IGN, Tom McShea gave the game a rating of 7.7/10. [10]

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