Treasure Adventure World

Very mixed feelings on this one, but I'll still lean towards Positive. Visually a marvellous redo of the old version of the game. Should you play it? Depends on your answer to these two questions - Do you like adventure? I mean adventure in a real sense, the game doesn't hold you by the hand by constantly telling you what to do and where to go. You have an indication for a treasure, but can't quite get there yet? Don't fret, and try another island. In the end, you'll be able to do everything, help everyone, and find all treasures. Some of it WILL be locked for a moment because you're missing some equipment. Think Metroid, but with less direction of where to go, and more "little interactions that lead to cool discoveries". A lot of people seem to be annoyed when they get stuck, but really, if something (like a jump) seems impossible to do, it probably is, but only for now. You just need to have a different mindset and go somewhere else for more exploring. It's easy to understate this point, the game REALLY is an exploration/adventure, it is its biggest quality by far. Few games of the modern era ever reached this feeling for me; while not being close to old RPGs like the first fallout, this is a much lighter version of that. Gotta explore, gotta try out stuff, gotta realize when to say "Okay, I think I should explore somewhere else." - How tolerant to jank are you? Unfortunately, it's very hard to not have your enjoyment of the game be hindered by the controls. The jump is floaty, the hook grabbing is feels like it's always either one pixel too far or attracting you like a magnet when you don't want to jump on it, the combat is needlessly complicated, and the bossfights are, while interesting, hard to understand. A small note on combat: There are items you can equip that influence your stats. If some enemies seem to take zero damage from your attacks, there's one item that seem to help with that. But why have charged attack damage, combat stats, and variable with items, for a game that's not focused on combat? It's as if the game was trying to do both "castlevania light" and pure platformer at the same time, and is janky on both front instead of being great at one of those, which feels like a missed opportunity imo. Note on bugs! No spoilers! The final bossfight bugged for me, like, hard. I couldn't hit the boss because the hitboxes were out of reach (clearly in a buggy way, as an entire part of the boss was cut from the screen). Check the discussion, there's a pinned message, and it tells you what to do to avoid bugs; considering it's the only true bug (unrelated to wonky controls), it's easy to dismiss, but don't be like me and try to fight an impossible battle because of bugs. Overall, I'd say this: This game feels old, mechanics wise. I mean this in a positive and a negative way; as mentionned previously, the controls are not the best, just like those old platformers of the SNES era that hadn't hit the jackpot yet. However, the game also brings something out of you, a childish joy at exploring a huge world, at discovering hidden chests, at getting a new item and being gitty at the opportunities you have to re explore some parts of the world you couldn't reach before. All that without taking you by the hand and telling explicitely what to do, something you don't find very often in modern games.

I really enjoyed this game, so it's really sad to see the lack of a presence on the internet is has. I don't normally leave reviews, but I feel it's necessary here.

so like...this is a true hidden gem, i love it. i'd love it -more-, however, if it didn't crash after particularly difficult sections causing me to have to do the entire thing all over again. It wouldn't be so bad if you could save whenever ('cause then it would just be on me being a ♥♥♥♥♥♥' moron) but you can only save at designated locations.

Nice design, awesome remake of old story, cool new stuff

Great mechanic never getting bored since each level(island is very diffrent) glad I got this game.

Great Adventure Game

I absolutely loved this game. The story, puzzles, and gameplay was great. It's cute and fun to play.