Tomba! Special Edition

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.

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.

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.

this port has a terrible sound bug that hasnt been fixed and probably won't at this point. nearly everytime you enter a new zone a weird continuous note will play along the music, sometimes its a high pitched one that makes playing the game without fully muting it or disabling sound impossible. i really cant reccommend it until they fix this specific bug

[b]This review is on the basis of it being discounted to $5. Any higher than that, and I would NOT recommend buying it!![/b] The game itself is fine, albeit short with a lot of padding and "where am I supposed to go" moments. If you know what to do, you could easily finish it within a few hours. The issue is more with the way this release is packaged. This was originally a PS1 game. What you're buying here is the PS1 ROM and an emulator. This again, is not an issue in and of itself. The issue is more so to do with the presentation wrapper it's all bundled into, called "Carbon Engine", developed by some Youtuber hack. The game itself is not worth any more than $5 realistically (what I paid for it), at least not to people who've never played it before. So to justify the $20 price tag the game comes bundled with some extra magazine scans, concept art and interview videos, new soundtrack, upscaled cutscenes etc. It's these extras that just kill the value of this release, no one thing is a deal breaker but it's death by 1000 papercuts. Almost everything newly included has issues in some shape or form and the fact that they're still present nearly 2 years after release is inexcusable and very telling of how much if a rushed nostalgia cash grab this is. Some of these issues might just affect me, likewise there may be other issues I never had that others got, but I'll list them... 1) Being just a ROM and emulator, the game still has super long load times when moving between maps. Even opening and closing the in-game menu takes several seconds. 2) Control glyphs were updated from the PS1 buttons but are incorrect. B/A and X/Y are the wrong way around (using Xinput controller). 3) Cutscenes have been upscaled, but cropped from 4:3 to 16:9. PLEASE stop doing this! The game is 4:3 already, there is no need to crop out a third of the picture. The volume on most cutscenes is also way too loud, others have crackling audio and many are missing sound effects. 4) Going on from the previous, there are no audio options available in the game whatsoever. Not even a general volume slider. Only option is to choose between the new soundtrack and the original. 5) The new soundtrack is fine, but it seems to work by muting the emulated soundtrack and playing the music through the presentation layer. Sometimes it doesn't register you changing maps and continues playing the previous music, often when I died it didn't play the death music and just had awkward silence. 6) No borderless full-screen option. 7) If you try and save the game normally, it forces the presentation layer to open the save states menu. If you wanted to play without using save states, that's not an option. I guess because originally it would have pulled up the PS1's memory card menu, but still not good. 8) Only 3 save states allowed. 9) Loading from a save state while in-game completely disables the d-pad. 10) The included bonus art, while nice, is not very well presented. Some sections only have enough images to count on one hand, a lot are dumped into an "other" category and none of them have any context given, no author, no dates. 11) The interview videos are boring, sorry. They're very dry and short and there's no controls other than to go back to the menu. 12) The credits are baked into the ending cutscene in Japanese, regardless of which language you played with.

Esse jogo é muito bom, mas esse port é emulado com PCSX ReARMed. Tem conteúdos como artes conceituais e entrevistas, além da trilha sonora ter sido regravada, mas a original na maioria soa é melhor. Mas a experiência de graça com DuckStation é melhor, a renderização, o visual e a própria emulação em si. Esse game merecia uma remasterização ou até um remake, mas esse port quase anula isso. É um dos melhores games de plataforma já feitos, um tanto subestimado.

Приквел к одной из любимейших игр PSX из 90-ых, полуоткрытый мир, куча квестов, море экшена, повторное посещение локаций для сбора всех-всех предметов с помощью всё новых механик и что удивительно - не приедается, от количества квестов голова идёт кругом, порой начинаешь забывать, что у кого сдавать нужно. Боссы правда слишком лёгкие, особенно с перемоткой времени, но в геймплее есть моменты, где без неё перепроходить было бы слишком долго. Порт/Ремастер неплохой, музыку сыграли снова, на современных инструментах, графику чуть сгладили (хотя задники на ИИ можно было бы ещё улучшить), плохо что управление в меню настроить нельзя, только редактированием .ini, но я в итоге привык даже на клавиатуре. Увы, не сделали апскейл окна игры на весь экран. В игре есть квесты, которые можно запороть по незнанию очерёдности или особенностей геймплея, рекомендую почитать о таких нагуглив заранее.