Demon Tides

A huge, expressive 3D platformer. Bowser's Fury meets chill, lo-fi vibes. It's open-world with a massive variety of "levels" spread around the archipelago. You can do these in any order you like, the only hard limit is needing to collect enough "golden gears" to advance to the next area. The game is as hard as you want to make it. Demon Tides respects your damn time, and lets you plant a checkpoint almost wherever you want, outside of some specific challenges. It was never overly punishing the ability to put a checkpoint down anywhere encourages creativity. Want to try some crazy ♥♥♥♥ instead of jumping like a normal person, plant a checkpoint and give it a whirl. The art style pops and you are also treated to a ridiculous number of unlockable outfits and hair styles. No microtransactions at all. I encountered some technical issues, like pop-in when you approach some of the islands in the archipelago, but it was fine otherwise. It's not going to blow anyone's socks off but it's cute and colourful. I liked most of the music. It's no Mario, but the lo-fi hip-hop music fits the vibe really well. I even bought the OST on Bandcamp and it's been in my rotation. My favourite tracks are the collection of "A King's Will" tracks which play during the final boss fight. There's a story too. Yeah. It's not that bad, but some of the dialogue can be a bit cringe. I think that's supposed to be the point in some parts, but it doesn't make it better. The plot overall is secondary to the point of the game which is to jump. Besides that, I can't really fault the game for anything besides a few technical issues and some bad writing. I even went for 100% completion.

this is an underspoken about game, its soo good <3

love this game. if you like platform games, plus free roam and a pinch of bad ass this is the game for you :)

Best 3D platformer of the year. The difficulty balance was the best part of this game for me, not too hard but also not too easy. instead, the challenge was fined tuned and fun to complete. The only things i didn't like about the game were the bad camera sometimes and some of the cringe story dialogue. oh and very good music, especially the chill music that plays in between traveling to islands/levels

This game shares a lot of mechanics with Bubsy 4d. So many that I think Bubsy 4d might've been made to pay for this game. It goes beyond anything you can do with Bubsy though, but the difficulty remains about the same. It's not as hard as the previous platformer in this series, with competition with other players, and time trials being the real hurtle here. (Same as Bubsy 4d) but a whole lot longer of a game with a whole lot more customization and collectables. You can tell which game the devs cared more about.

Very good game that honestly only gets better as you keep playing. It's a well-paced, healthy mix of Wind Waker-esque ocean exploration, classic collectathon, and Odyssey-style platforming with a bit of story sprinkled on top. The game offers the player extremely powerful mobility tools, but the way these tools interact with one another forces you to be deliberate about how you use them. If you go around spamming your dashes, dives, and double jumps all willy-nilly, you'll end up frustrated when your character doesn't do what you want her to do. That being said, the difficulty in this game comes entirely from optional challenges. You could pretty easily reach the finale just by avoiding anything that gives you too much trouble. My only (rather selfish) complaint is that the game lacks those little extra easter eggs / attention to details that I'd see in some other games. For instance, many NPCs in this game have dialogue referring to how your character isn't wearing a mask--seeing this, my very first thought was "what if I put on a mask and talk to them again?". I tried, and the same dialogue about Beebz being maskless plays again, which was mildly disappointing. It doesn't change my opinion on the game really, but it's those little opportunities to make the player smile at the game recognizing what they're trying to do that would make a game like this much more memorable. Also the spin button on Xbox controller was way too sensitive! I could lightly touch the side of the trigger and it would go off sometimes. There was no analog trigger threshold customization option in the settings either.

This game was amazing, if you're a fan of schmovement, this game be schomoving alright. The graphics are tight, music by 2mello and fatbard, tight tight, and story was a big step up from demon turf, there was actually something here! My nitpick is only how it ends, just kinda feels like it's a fake out ending, but then it kinda isn't, it just that and some lines on the credits. It be ok, just a bit meh, did make me 100 per cent the game (to make sure there wasn't a true ending), that definetely worth, there is so much here!

Luci's kinda hot, red hot. Also game is pretty fun. 4 beebz out of 5

Goog game

Tiene algunas asperezas, como que a veces el homming attack no da al objetivo, pero eso es muy anecdótico, solo que cuando te sucede te das cuenta porque todo los demás está muy bien hecho. Cada isla es interesante de explorar, algunas requieren que uses algo la imaginación, es más, si la usas puedes hacer cosas bastante locas. Un gran plataformas 3D, lo completé al 100% junto a la isla del post-game y pienso volver a hacerlo.