Tomba! Special Edition

Because of Caddicarus I was so hyped for this game. As many of his favourite games I loved a lot. Unfortunately Tomba is not only a massive disappointment to me, but I would not even call it a good game. For the positives. Visually the game looks very nice. Cutscenes are superbly made with glorious animation. Though there are very few of them and they're short. Music is beautiful too. There is a lot of content here. 130 quests. Most are very fun. There are major negatives to this games though. First a small nitpick, but Tomba is a shallow character who never even speaks. He's a caricature of a caveman at best, especially, compared to the great adventure game protagonists like Spyro the dragon or Kao the kangaroo. Combat is awful. Before getting the best items much later in the game the combat is both very awkward and difficult. The hit boxes are too tight. The movement is strange. You have to jump on enemies and then throw them. But you'll often end up jumping too far or not reaching them which will likely end in taking damage. Boss battles are awful too. You can either beat any of the bosses in 10 seconds or choke on them and rage. You have to throw them in spinning bags and the hit detection is too tight for them. The main problem is the movement. I know that your speed is different depending on the outfit, equipped item, running or walking, wind, how horizontal or vertical the surface is. But your movement speed is also random on the straight horizontal surface, one second you may walk fast, the other you may be slow. It's very awkward and makes both combat and platforming a hell. Now speaking of platforming, before you get the best items and clothes, the platforming will be torture. One of the problems additionally to the strange movement is that camera is too close. The distances you have to jump are sometimes beyond your visible view. Also, the level design is terrible. Very uncomfortable to navigate in and full of deliberately places traps in annoying places. Besides all that, a lot of the quests are so stupid, and they would be impossible to beat without a walkthrough. For example there is a quest where you have to fill a bucket with water, and there are tons of water everywhere, rivers, sea, a lake, a pond, a fountain, pipes with running water, troughs, and even a well. But nope, you cannot fill the bucket from any of these... I'll leave it up to you where and with what you have to fill it. Another quest was to place a raft on the river, but you can only place it in a specific spot and that spot is extremely difficult to spot due to similar colour with a background and where it is. Anyway, additionally, near the end of the game something stupid happens and you have to find 7 friends to do something for you. This is so silly as it was a clear cheap attempt to prolong the game length, but what also infuriated me is that those people you had to get were almost randomly chosen. There are characters literally calling you their friend, yet you cannot ask them to do this task for you, for some reason. Overall, I had a lot of fun with Tomba completing a lot of satisfactory quests. However, a lot of the primary mechanics and aspects are horribly executed and there are some terrible quests as well. I can only call it an okay game at best. 6/10

You're a caveman saving dwarves, magical old prophets, mice people, mole people, meet some mermaids, a witch, big muscle dudes, some humans, a monkey named charles, a phoenix and a puppy... You're saving them from evil pigs that likes gold very much. This game is an open-world game through and through and all of the quests are really fun to do, even though it's a very old game, the game really aged well and I say give it a try. The one who made this game btw is Tokuro Fujiwara... A legend in Capcom, search him up...

I wish I could play through it again for the first time <3

Игра отличная, порт просто ужасный. Пробегал её на эмуле, на нём же буду пробегать и впредь

Very fun retro game. The addition of the "rewind" mechanic in this game is awesome, and made it so much less frustrating to play than the original, which I didn't actually finish, with the wonky jumping physics.

Amo este jogo! Um dos meus favoritos desde criança. Mas nesta versão esta cheia de bugs e desanimando completamente a jogar. Não recomendo!!! Talvez em outro console seja mais interessante, mas esta aqui é desanimadora.

[h1]Good port of a PS1 precision platformer[/h1] It plays just like I remember it from the 1998 game. There's a decent learning curve to get the attacks just right and some platforming segments are pretty brutal. Also, it's missing some of the conveniences that modern Platformers have (example: You have limited lives) but it's still pretty fun to play.