Tinykin

好玩

Un super jeu de plateforme, avec une DA et un gameplay léché et original !

If you’re expecting a Pikmin clone, don’t. This is more a platformer collectaton and it’s meh at best. Sure the art looks great and seeing how the bugs turned the house into their own society is pretty cool,(my favourite detail is the sponges being used as fields for crops in the kitchen), I can’t fully get behind this as it's just okay at best and tedious at worst. Now I could complain about the lack of time limit or limited amount of days to add tension, but you don’t really need that if you want a more causal experience.(even if Pikmin was casual by RTS standards) Instead I’m going to complain that for a more casual Pikmin, it’s pretty braindead. Sure you the Tinykin have different skills like reds explode, greens can be ladders, blue can connect to electricity, and yellow can build bridges. These could have been use to solve puzzles, but it’s completely context sensitive. The only ones you can use whenever are the green which makes them the best by default. And lets not forget that to do any of the main objectives, you need pinks as they are the only ones that can carry the items you need, so each level is mainly just finding enough pinks to fix everything. Okay, the using the limited amount of Blues to make a circuit are decent. This could’ve been improved slightly with some combat, like at the cost of a Tinykin, different enemies would attack you and you need certain Tinykins to clear them. Like how in Pikmin, while Reds are the best fighters, the others’ different strengths like can breath in water or hit flying enemies to take into account. But no, it’s just find all the Tinykin to solve the basic puzzle. It looks cute but it’s all style no substance. 5/10