Recent reviews by A very hot piece of Kek™

It feels unfair to compare this game to the previous 3 installments of the game, considering back then Krome had the big budget publishing of EA behind it. But slapping a "4" on the game's name, makes it a bit hard not to.

I grew up playing the first two Ty games, never played the 3rd and frankly didn't even know it existed.
So when i saw a Ty game on steam, before they remastered and re-realeased the first 3 games on PC, i bought it. And can't say i'm impressed. And this is not because it goes from a 3D game to a 2D game but because it just feels floaty and unpolished, and even unfair at times.

I've been killed numerous times by either flying enemies or enemies in water that just pop out from terrain, not like nose sticking out to give you a fair warning that "An enemy will charge out from here" no, i swim down a tunnel, and out from the side an eel just pops out and kills me.
There's also annoying sand throwing crabs that lurk on the bottom, so have fun swimming down in any water level and getting hit out of nowhere because a crab that's out of view, threw a projectile that you couldn't even see on screen, because Ty when swimming down is not in the center or top of the screen, he's still in the bottom corner.

Some jumps feel like they were made so you need to make a pixel perfect jump to make it, boomerangs in the shop don't really tell you well what they are used for, the charged attacks you need to do to kill certain enemies cost opals (currency) to do, and has a charge up time where if you get hit when doing it, you still lose your opals, and you pretty much have to jump and charge your shot, or you risk hitting the ground and also losing your opals.

There's no hub world so after mission chapters it literally just boots you out to the menu. And from there you click tabs to go to the store for boomerangs and outfits. Couldn't just make some straight road hub world that you walk back and fourth in to enter different stores and world areas, you gotta kick me out to the main menu?

Hitboxes feel very floaty and platforms are poorly telegraphed whether you're on the edge or not because they aren't drawn in a side profile view, but rather drawn in a angled side view, and i do think i know why this is.
I recognize some of the platforms in the game as ones done for concept art that you could find as paintings in the first Ty the tasmanian tiger game.
So they've literally taken some of the concept art assets from previous games, and tried to make them into 2D platforms for a game.
Now, i'm not against the idea of recycling stuff from previous games, but. To take concept art, and try to adapt collision to it when it was made with the intention to give someone doing 3D modelling an idea of what the thing should look like? That's a bit of a stretch when it comes to re-using.

I've also had problems like 4-5 times where either after completing a mission i can't click to progress the NPCs dialogue, it just stops responding.
And other times when i've died it gets stuck on the zoom out paw icon and never respawns me, so Ty just lies dead in a black void forever.

Ultimately, either if you're a fan of the previous 3 games or not, i wouldn't recommend this game on its own merits. It feels unpolished and is more annoying than anything, especially if you have no prior knowledge on how some boomerangs work and enemies are weak to.
I guess the one positive is i'm pretty sure a lot of old Ty fans bought this game, and it was enough to show Krome studios that there was enough interest to remaster and bring the previous 3 games to Steam.

Its a great survival game, and it pisses off the chinese because they have a Taiwanese flag in the game.

Lmao, imagine having 9,706,961 km2 of landmass, and getting red-faced angry the point of ranting and disliking a game that has a Taiwanese flag in it, just because you want to own a tiny island off of your coast, an island who's inhabitants do not want to be part of your tofu-dreg infested country.
哭吧，你们这些被宠坏的孩子！
作为一个来自真正自由国家的人，而不是懦夫，我保留评论区，让你们畅所欲言。不像你们这些懦夫。

I got this game together with 4 friends before, they didn't have a good time with it and refunded it but i kept it wanting to give it another shot. I really enjoyed PEAK which was another 4 player co-op game.
Coming from that game to this one however, its safe to say it didn't live up to my expectations.
I can't fault the game for not having randomized unique maps every time, that's something that's easier said than done plus it has to be traversable with a RV while in peak you could always find some way around, be it with tools, risky moves or going to another climbing spot.
But the map in this offers little to no challenge. The RV is almost comparable to a skyrim horse and can traverse some really damn steep hills. And should you need it, the winch on the front and back are unlimited use and get you out of any hard to pass terrains like ice or mud or even up like a 90 degree incline.
Even spots where one would probably go out and guide the car, we just drove through it. Having decent enough guestimation to always get through without anyone pointing in the right direction.
There's no hunger or drain on your character that forces you to scavenge around for supplies.
There is the scrap that's needed to give the RV some protection so it doesn't take hull damage which if it takes too much will destroy the RV and fail you the game. Even if you don't stray that far from the road though, you find a decent amount of it. Though obviously not near enough if you run into the worst things in this game, a genuine danger for the wrong reason. Animals.

You can encounter either Bears on the first map or Goats on the new Yurbuttsk map. These animals can only be chased off with either bearspray or flare gun respectively, the bear will give up attacking after a while but the goats are relentless and keep going so if you don't have those items, you're sh*t out of luck.
These suck because they can take your RV from full hull down to zero in mere seconds. You only notice them once they are on you and by then 1/3 of your hull is already gone and the rest will soon follow.
Combine this with risky jumps needing to be made along the way and it is impossible to make it through without losing hull. So if you repair at a bad time just before some jump, you are going to lose all that hull right after repairing it.
Some things like the ladder to the roof also count as bits of hull, so if you lose that you can't access the roof unless you got a good thing nearby to climb and jump to the roof from.

I've also had bugs with the game getting desynchronized at one point. After the RV glitched up and just clipped into something and took a ton of damage, the two front wheels flew off the car. But for my friend, the tires were still on. You might say that's trouble on his end but when we jacked up the car and he unscrewed the tires he could still see, he could pick those tires up and put them right back on and screw them on again. So the tires he saw materialized when he unscrewed them. Not sure how that works but, it happened.

So the few times the game has offered up a challenge for me and my friend has legit been due to annoying animals we had no items to fend off or the game glitching up. Items like food and beer was always in huge supply because we never needed to use them, to the point where we just started drinking the beers for fun rather than as a utility item to be saved and used.
Something like PEAK remained unpredictable and you had to make plans for a future you weren't aware of. RV There Yet doesn't offer that same unpredictability or need to creatively get around situations where you lack supplies because you can carry them with you and its virtually never an issue.
I guess if you have friends who are less talented in problem solving things together, it might make for a more thrilling ride, but for me it was mainly sitting in the car and watching my talented driver friend drive me through the map, occasionally stopping to repair the hull after a bear or goat knocked 90% of it off after we didn't have anything to fend it off with.

I especially caution anyone, if you're coming off of PEAK and want some similar adventure experience with your friends, this one isn't it.
I wouldn't want to go so far as to say you need to be sloppy or careless in order for exciting things to happen in this butt, genuinely that's what it feels like.

I enjoy the setting of the world, the tasks and everything is more interesting than what i've seen in similar games.
With that said, the game is also VERY confusing if you get into it for the first time. I will admit i was fiddling with settings because i accidentally screwed something up and had to restart the game, and when i did i didn't get the tutorial popping up for me again and couldn't re-play it.
So the tutorial might go through some of the basics, i am aware of this going into the review which is why i focus more on the "logic" of things in the game.

This is the most baffling thing to me, because the game has a thing where enemies on fire hurt you more it does damage the enemies but if you have a fire damaging effect you better be killing them quick after you gave them that fire damage or they'll be returning the favour two-fold. Yet, the special attack of the Splash kit is to make the water gun spray fire instead, igniting enemies, friendlies and you alike. And since its your watergun doing it, you can't soak people if you actually set them ablaze, so i just never use that ult. There's also fire damage modifiers for weapons and a fire grenade and just... Why?
Fire is kind of treated like "Fire, bad. Water, good!" in this game so why the hell do you then give players some fire damage weapons?! Just have them swear off fire entirely, don't touch it, if you see it remove it. Or at the least do something like how Vermintide 2 has the Skaven shoot green warp fire, while the hero Sienna shoots regular fire. So you can tell good fire from bad fire. That way the player can deal a special fire to the enemies (Maybe a graphite mixed fire since graphite seems to be the bane of the Hiss' existence?) that only damage them and not buff them.

In this game, water is healing, but for some reason only at certain times. Like in shower stations, from faucets and from a watercooler. But when shot from the Splash kits gun it just soaks you and give you the wet effect. I understand its for balacing reasons, the water gun with its fire rate being able to heal would be quite OP. But its just BS that it does nothing. Like, can't it at least do pitiful low but still some healing? Why is water different from water?

You will have tasks in this game which involve you grabbing or destroying items. These are worthlessly highlighted though, getting only a square marker once you are close to them.
The maps in this are quite large and you are often assaulted by endless waves of enemies until the task is done. It doesn't give you breathing room. So running around, leaving cover only to aimlessly look for a task among so many other things, is a confusing mess. What they instead should have done is Left 4 Dead's old highlighting system.
Where it gives glowing contrours of the item and you can see it through walls. This means that if you get to a area where you need to grab 10 different things, you can see them and the challenge only becomes getting to them through all the enemies.
Especially things like the corrupted items. For god's sake. Those things make the missions harder, and you can only kill them with a special item that you need to run around and look for. And once you have it, its ammo is limited.
I don't need the weapons to be glowing highlighted but for god's sake HIGHLIGHT THE CORRUPTED ITEMS AT ALL TIMES! So someone can run and find the graphite grinder and just run directly to the corrupted item and be rid of it. Instead of aimlessly running around with it, getting hurt by enemies because fighting back means dropping the graphite grinder.

More than once i've had issues in this game related to the movement and interactions of it. The specials of all kits all involve something that the player needs to deploy. But the frankly idiotic thing about this is you need to stand still and let this animation play out of your character dropping the item, which takes like 2-3 seconds.
These items can be the difference between life and death. I don't mind the animation playing out, but if me and the team is running away from a group of enemies, i want to be able to activate the item and keep walking away from them, then i can stop and activate it. I don't want to stop, place the item, activate it and then run.
If you try to place an item as you are moving, they will play the animation but not place the actual item, but they'll still automatically swap your weapon out for your class tool that's used to activate it.

I think the game shows potential but it has a lot of things that just makes combat awkward and not fluent, the readability of it is just... Off.
Its a weird world, that's the intention and i like that. But in return that means that objectives, elements and all that need to be grounded somewhat and not be "Some water heal, some water don't" and "Fire make enemies stronger, here use thing to set enemies on fire"
They should also lower the price down to about €20.
For three classes, nine weapons and about 5-6 missions for €40? Nah man.
And its not fun playing alone so it needs multiplayer to survive. Currently i struggle to connect to a server where it doesn't lose connection or glitch out and connects me to someone's lobby but i can't ready up
(The button isn't there for me to click)

The game apparently had a rough start and by a look of the numbers, its pretty dead in the water.
I do hope they work on it but the things i feel it needs to improve it are probably harder to implement than just a quick patch. I do hope they do though because at its current clunky state and its price, i don't see those player numbers rising anytime soon.
I got the game as a gift from a friend who wanted to play it. And him and our 3rd friend have pretty much dropped it. Its only me left, and i wasn't even the one who paid for it.

Incredibly fun game, and a great litmus test in communication and teambuilding.
Feels like something that'll run its course and get dull after the first climb but it keeps being enjoyable due to the randomized terrain making each climb slightly different.

Plus, the fun is never at the goal, its on the journey to the goal.
For the price they charge, even at a sale. Its well worth it, but only if you have a group of people to play it with.
If you can only play it alone, its not near as fun.

There's also a mod out there that allows you to play with 20 people at a time, in case you want to strain every friendship you have all at once.

In principle, i'd enjoy something like the Dunwall City Trials, something to test and sharpen your skills, how quick is your reaction time, stuff like that.
But instead its a bunch of challenges that need to be done in a certain way in pretty much one or two ways, offering very little creativity in order to complete the goal.

Train Runner
Bonfires
And Assassin's run are the ones that i have the biggest gripe with.

Train runner you're supposed to race a train through a parkour course from start to end, the way you win this is by getting unto the train and just riding it to the end.
That way you preserve the most mana, don't risk your health and you get to the end at virtually the same time as the train.
So it doesn't train you at with speed and grace parkour through the level, you're supposed to find a ledge or spot where you can blink over and get unto the train. That's just a scavanger hunt..

Bonfires are randomized and might screw you over with a sequence that requires you to go great distances from the last point to the next, and you earn bonus points by just doing a few select, non-highlighted jumps that you just repeat whenever you pass one from your last bonfire to the next.
That's just muscle memory learning the locations and how to enter to the bonfire via that point anytime the next bonfire is in that location.

Assassin's run
This one was actually when i first realized the game had a pretty majour flaw, that being its hitboxes.
In this you sneak and either kill or subdue assassins trying to make it to the end. The path opens when the assassin's from the last area are dealt with.
Now, the issue here is that these assassins walk around in an area where they'll lean down and look at papers on a desk, crouch down and inspect something on the ground or look at a painting.
However, their hitbox doesn't line up with their positions. A target leaning over a desk will for some reason have a straight standing hitbox, so if you shoot his head as its leaning forward, the shot will miss and he'll be alerted and it will deduct points. But if you shoot at where his head was when he first got close to the desk before leaning in, then you'll hit his head.
So you're aiming at an invisible target.

You will with most likelyhood get this DLC as a complete pack when buying Dishonored and also getting the Knife of Dunwall and the Witches of Dunwall, both of which are infinetly better DLCs than this.
But if you somehow get dishonored without the DLC, do not come back for this one. Its not worth it.

A game which triggers that dopamine hit inside of our brain.
Be it achieving a new stage, new research on the MAM or unlocks at the HUB.

The feeling of accomplishment that you've done something with your time.
When in reality, you've been sitting here for 12 hours accomplishing nothing worthwhile.
The factory is temporary, yet i seek a unparalleled level of perfection and efficiency.

Its a lot of fun, and a great time sink.
My only complaint is the creature names are 2010s reddit tier level of lame.
"Lizard doggo" and "Space Giraffe Tick Penguin Thing"? Makes me cringe every time.

While i liked the first Scribblenauts game, how it offered challenges that you had to be creative to solve and a lot of different scenarios and missions. This game i absolutely hate!

You gather points by solving quests on a map and spawning objects you haven't previously spawned before which is a neat concept to encourage people to not spam the same few words.
Problems arise however when you need to grind to get these points to unlock new areas and outfits and you quickly realize all these missions are just two dozen or so missions repeated.
-Deliver donuts to developers
-Scare (person)
-Protect (historic person) from (random person)
-Make me less feral
-Give me a disguise
-This place is dirty, find 3 trash bags
-I lost my three (object) find them for me.

Enjoy playing on Oa, Central city, Atlantis and Themyscira over and over, because out of all the outfits you need to unlock, and the origin story missions and regular missions. The points you get from those worlds is used to purchase like 2/3 of all things in the game.
The points you get from metropolis you can use for like, 4 outfits, and 2 more worlds and then they are useless.
You also get "challenges" from Mister Mxyzptlk, which doubles your points after making things more challenging. But that's complete bollocks. He might tell you "You're only allowed to spawn DC superheroes" and then the challenges (since they are randomized) will be something like "Give me a round object to strike with my golf club)
And i tried giving him ball-shaped DC characters, doesn't work.
Its not designed in a way where missions are doable if his challenge is active, its all just guesswork.

If you enjoyed Scribblenauts i don't think you will enjoy this game.
They spent all the time and budget on making a bunch of DC characters you will never get any use from spawning.

Got this game and played it with some friends since i was a huge fan of the first The Forest game.
First thing i'll say is that it succeeds in being a good sequel, that meaning it builds upon what the last game did. Contributed improvements and a lot more than what the first game brought to the table. So if you liked The Forest, you'll like the sequel.

But with that said, its not a flawless game and some of those issues are coming back from the first game. That and possibly a new issue, depending on how you see it.
The game is a mix between Survival and Horror. As soon as you're up and about on the surface during the day, its a really neat survival game, with lots of base building options, things to explore that are both marked and unmarked. So it rewards combing through the whole island rather than get people stuck on a single path going from marker to marker.
That is something it has now though, markers and hints as to where you go next. There are still key items you need in order to progress, but its not the 100% blind cave diving that you did in the first game which i think is a bit of a shame.

When you go under ground, that's where the horror aspect starts. You hear sounds in the dark, you got limited light so you can't see all that well what's in front of you. Then rushing out of the darkness comes a monster that attacks you. Eventually you start recognizing sounds of enemies and you start to worry the second you start hearing them. That combined with resource management so you don't run out of food, water, medicine or armor in the caves (some of them have a few survival items, but not all) or you might be left in a tight spot.
Combat people have always thought was clumsy in this game and, that's because its the intention. You're not the Doom slayer here to send the cannibals and monsters to meet their maker, you're a regular guy (albeit a talented one) flailing in the dark.
That said, playing in multiplayer it did something that was a detriment to our playthrough and enjoyment of the game, and that was:
More players = higher enemy HP
So while in singleplayer if you were talented you could use certain weapons and shoot enemies in their weak spot (if they have one) and take them down with one or two shots. Not in this. They tank damage and it doesn't make the experience any more enjoyable.
They do allow you to customize the game when making a lobby, but we were all coming in fresh to this game so you don't want to go fiddle with settings that you have no experience with. What if you make enemies to weak? What if you make resources too abundant and remove the challenge?
I feel like balancing the multiplayer on its default settings is something the game could do well with.

One thing though that caught me and many others by surprise, is the building system.
It has gone for a fully animated system, so as opposed to the old game where you made a blueprint and then just brought logs to it, you now have a fully animated interaction with it. You stick a log into the ground to make a foundation, when you build a support beam you lean it against one log, and then lift that log up to put the other one in to make two supports with a crossbeam.
It is amazing to watch.
But you also don't get to know anything about it.
Building a slanted roof is the same as building stairs, but you need to click to change the way they place them. You can build stick fences, you can even electrify those stick fences. They added a whole system for electricity which i only found out about in the last stretch of the game.
Endnight doesn't hold your hand in either the old or new The forest games. Its a very hands-off approach. And i like that, to an extent.
Because there are so many things you miss by doing things this way. And the building system does have its flaws, as cool as i think it is.
If you plan on editing your house, by giving it a basement or something, then you cannot build a staircase unless you tear the roof off. It refuses the option to let you build a angled log needed to build stairs on. Which caused issues for me. But to be fair, that was the only "glitch" i found in the building system, all else was just confusing and hard to figure out.

I want to emphasise though, on the slim chance a developer reads this. I do not hate on the new system. It looks phenomenal and something i always adored with The Forest is, that while it has some yank and feels a bit unpolished in spots. You can never claim the game is lazy.
It has tons of different tools and weapons, with their own weapons and mechanics, so many things are fully animated. To the simple thing as unfolding a paper target board to larger things like eating different foods. Fish, Meat, Energybars and soups all have different eating animations.

But that kind of leads in to one of my issues with the game. The logic and story of the setting.

[Some spoilers, beware]

In the old game, they never really told you what the strange things you discover on the island was, but there was traces of religious pilgrims having gone to the island, and old chinese treasure ship, cave divers, hikers and of course Sahara employees.
The island had literally hundreds of bodies or people going missing. In the past, it could maybe be excused how they just vanish but some of these people there must've been interest in finding them or something linking them to the island they vanished on. It was an unrealistic amount of people just missing and how they were just forgotten about.
This game gets away with it better since most of the people are are employees of the Puffton corporation. But it still has remnants of a religious cult, old fishing villages, people up in the mountains. All of which aren't really explained well.


It was teased that there might be a 3rd game. And if they do that, i would love to see more focus on Visual storytelling from the developers. Because from all the animation and effort going in to making the things in the game, its clear they aren't lazy.
Which makes it a bit baffling then how the game only has like 8-9 different human body types (That aren't skeletons).
3-4 civilians, 1 standard soldier, 1 type of worker and 2-3 religious cultists.

The old fishing villages could have clothing items that date them a bit more. Some different versions of bodies if its a corporation, like security guards, scientists, and workers, but make like 2 versions of each so the bodies aren't just the same "Deadworker_laying_flat" and "Deadworker_slumped_over" have like one white person and one asian person. Or one with mask and one without. Make some sutble changes.
And a huge plus would be also to make body parts of the different body models. Just imagine going in to find a body of a scientist next to a vent, a steak of blood down from the vent and his arm is missing.
That just tells you visually from the scene, that something in the vent grabbed and tore the guy's arm off and he bled to death.
There's a lot more you can do with the visual story telling by doing things like that.

On a bit of a personal note too:
The ocean i felt lacked interesting features. There's a life raft, and some boats from the cultists. But i would've loved it if there was some unique shipwreck, like in the first game with the treasure ship.
Something you might spot from a point on the island, a rock out in the ocean where you see a bit of a ship sticking up that struck it and sunk. So if you have the rebreather you can go shipwreck exploring or find things in the lake.

They make a lot of notes and things you can collect, even pointing to things like the old fishing village and these notes are a great way to have hidden areas like this. Have people mention something in a note about a old ship that sank north east of the island or something. So an attentive person can pick up on that and go explore to find this ship.

The games themselves are quite entertaining, something mindless to play for 5-10 minutes per day.
But for the asking price of €9,99? Its not worth it.
I guess that pricetag comes from the publisher being a subsidiary of Bandai Namco which is... Quite odd? As you'd think this is something from a small indie studio considering the games in it are based off of chinese scam adds that advertise a game only to lead you to a candycrush clone.

Anyone's pretty much free to take those games in the adds and make them.
or do they really think the f*cking chinese are going to sue for copyright infringement?...

The games themselves aren't very hard.
You have 5 different minigames:
-Cash run
-Pin pull
-Parking lot (My personal favourite)
-Number tower
-and lastly Color lab

In all of them, you're scored between 1-3 stars based on how fast you finish the task. And the 3-stars challenges from all the ones i've played are pretty generous on time, so its not like you have no room for error and need to be a master to pull it off.

Through but there are some oddities that i can only assume were.. oversights?
In the game Color lab, the timer stops when you finish, and the nurse does some victory animation after the timer stops. Makes sense, you won so the timer should stop when the task is finished.
That doesn't happen for the Number Tower game, which did end up costing me 3 stars on one level because the character had to do a victory animation before the timer stopped. So its very inconsistent.

I also found the Pin pull minigame a bit unresponsive at times. Not pulling the pins when i clicked on them to do so but that was my only kind of "gameplay" related bugs/issues.

Then there's the elephant in the room that is the "Earn 1,000,000 coins" achievement.
I'll agree with people there, that thing is bollocks. I've completed all games with 3 stars with the exception of the Number tower levels, and i've earned little under 300,000 coins at this point. So beating all games with max score, won't even garner you half of the coins needed for the achievement. You can earn coins via new daily challenges and i can see where they were coming from with this.
They intended you to play 1-2 games each day. And i'm sure at that point with the bonus coins you get daily you would actually reach the 1,000,000 coins by the time you finish.
It didn't have an implementation for someone who sat down and binged all the minigames in one sitting.
Without even checking i'm 99% certain this game was a port of a mobile phone game. Since that "play a short bit daily" kind of strategy makes a lot more sense on that. Plus the fact that the minigames they were copying was fake mobile phone games.

I'd say if you get the game on a discount, it might be more worth it. Anything above €4,99 is a no-go, don't buy it for that.
That and you don't care about eventually having to grind an awful achievement to get 100% completion.