I’ll be honest, Tomba! Special Edition(Tombi! in the EU) is not for me. It just is not. I tried it, twice, just never clicked with me. Cannot put a finger on exactly why. I should like it, its a 2.5D platformer where you can traverse the foreground and background, but I didn’t care for it. Maybe because it plays more like a point and click adventure. You see, in each area, you get various quests to complete, like find baby chicks or feed a monkey, go do that, the story story progresses. However, if you don’t even find the monkey, the story stops dead as you cannot move forward, so you have to go read a guide. I shouldn’t have to read a walk-through for a port of a 1997 platformer, but you kind of do for Tomba! Special Edition.
Tomba! Special Edition has nothing particularly wrong with it. It is well made, allows you to save anywhere, has lots of behind the scenes stuff. I just don’t like it. And that’s just fine, somebody else might. So playing a pink-haired cave-man fighting pig men sound appealing, by all means, play it. This is why the Your Mileage May Vary verdict exists, for these types of games. I shouldn’t have to suffer through it just for a review, so I’m putting my foot down. Tomba! Special Edition gets a YMMV with a seven back-end score. Again, there’s nothing wrong with it, it just was not for me.
Overall: Tomba! Special Edition is a remaster of a odd platformer from another age that some might enjoy even though I did not.
Verdict: YMMV
| Release Date | 8/1/24 |
| Cost | $19.99 |
| Publisher | Limited Run Games |
| ESRB Rating | E |
PS. Try Glyph!
Game received for free from the publisher.
am
The worst review for a game I ever did see how did you get the game from the publisher and write such a small paragraph that mentioned nothing of the game but just I didnt like it, it wasnt for me?
mordridakon
I thought about making sure your comment never saw the light of day, but I’m not going to do that.
I’ll just say this: You’re right, it is a bad review, but I was in bind with this and really had nothing to say. even though I had to say something. This is the result.
Al
It’s too bad that you weren’t able to pinpoint any particular criticisms against the game. I’d also like to have heard if there was anything you liked about the game as well or if, to you, it was all bad.