The aesthetic of High Fructose is a little all over the place. It's an edgy parkour game in the style of the Ghostrunner games, except my character is a furry fox, and the targets at which his blade is aimed are not the robot soldiers of an oppressive regime, but evil fruits which drop arcade-style coins and when you kill them. But for all that eclectic collection of vibes, I found its Steam Next Fest demo to be extremely fun - even before I found the panda gun.
As your samurai fox (or one of three other animal warriors), it's your job to slice through waves of corrupted fruit in an attempt to reclaim a sacred orchard. Conveniently, these fruits are hanging around in a freerunner's dream - an arena of tall, wide pillars that enable plenty of wallrunning and airdashes. It's a little more eclectic than the carefully curated freerunning arenas of Mirror's Edge or Ghostrunner, and the hordes of enemies make for somewhat less precise katana-ing, but it's still a satisfying playground.
