Tomba! Special Edition

Tombi on PS1 as a child: Magical and adventurous. Tombi on PC as an adult: a personal attack, mildly traumatic.

Wish I had played this game on the PS1 when it originally came out, it is original and the movement is fun, I probably would have liked it as a kid. I do wish there were some better filters for the game like bilinear or better CRT filters, the CRT filter is super basic and isn't very good. I do think they could have ported this game a little better, like giving the option to remove the long slow loading screens that obviously don't need to be there anymore. I also think it is overpriced at $20, get it on a sale. It is a very basic port, it plays well but it could have been much better.

Tomba is a great game. No notes, *chefs kiss* The port to PC however... the laziest thing in the world... too many issues to list but some of the worst: Super Buggy - I have to fully log off or even shut down my pc every 45 mins or so because of some error that definitely involves the game but i cant pinpoint it. They left in long loading screens - you can go back to a save state without any lag in time on either side of a loading screen indication that its not really loading... it's just obnoxious for no reason. Some event aren't triggering properly - sometimes you just can't get events to trigger. had to log off and log back in to try again. The controls are atrociously bad - If you're not playing on controller, do not buy this at all. The directional is on the right hand and the actions are on the left hand, and no .... you cant change it at all... also the actions are A,S,Z,X... why? because the people who ported this hate you that's why. Instead of the typical Q,W,E,R like you'd expect if 4 action keys were bound to your left hand... oh also the latency between when you press a button and when the game registers it.... absolute garbage. The game window.... Okay i understand the game wouldn't look good upscaled. fine. and I understand that there is going to be a large border, and I'm glad they give us border options... but the window is 1, count them, ONE size. you cant make it bigger or smaller there is no Fullscreen (with a lot of border) option. Overall: It is less buggy and significantly more pleasant to play on the 'free' browser based versions. Conclusion: The company responsible for porting this and all the people working for them should be barred from being around computers for the rest of their pitiful existence.

Absolute masterpiece. As a child I only got to experience the demo that came with Playstation Magazine UK, but did manage to get my dad to buy Tombi 2 from Electronics Boutique. My first job at 19 helped me pay silly money on Ebay for Tombi and I loved it. Now experiencing on Steam was a delight, perfect emulation with a rewind feature that was a godsend. Really hope Whoopee Camp can find a way to make Tombi 3 or a remake of the originals.

There are not enough words in the English lexicon to describe my eternal and undying love for Tomba. Every time I remember my brother sold my physical copy I want to punch him in the face. I would trade my firstborn son for a physical copy of Tomba. Or maybe just trade my brother.

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

The GOAT. No other game quite like it. Part RPG part Platformer part Adventure. Charming art and music

Still good and always will be!

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...

[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.