A remaster of Teslagrad
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
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The core concept is neat, with the suite of electromagnetic tools you acquire on the adventure leading to some interesting puzzles. Unfortunately, the incredibly wonky physics system implemented leads to unfair difficulty spikes, painful backtracking and unsatisfying boss encounters.
The visual uplift is appreciated, though perhaps it would have been wise to touch up the gameplay a little with this remaster.
The visual uplift is appreciated, though perhaps it would have been wise to touch up the gameplay a little with this remaster.
Was having a lot of fun, but then I got to the tree section and the pacing grinded to a halt. Then my save file got corrupted :(
May return one day, but for now mostly disheartened and not about to play all that again.
May return one day, but for now mostly disheartened and not about to play all that again.
Went back and played the remaster of the first game before jumping into the sequel. Fun metroidvania with some cool puzzles and abilities. The remaster really pops on the OLED!
Teslagrad was a little special to me because it was one of the first, if not the very first, games I played on Steam. Replaying it, it's just a quaint puzzle platformer/Metroidvania that I enjoyed! The visuals were always great but the visual overhaul makes it look just that much better. I was able to beat the game in one sitting and my biggest issue was that the mechanics just feel a little underdeveloped, and the bosses are a little annoying. Teslagrad 2 didn't make this game obselete, though. This game has a much different vibe and a slower pace through the tower, which is deliberate. Was nice to revisit, but lost a little luster this time around.
I remembered enjoying Teslagrad back in the day, and yeah, it's still pretty good! Can't say I cared much for the boss fights, but flinging your character around with magnetic attraction and repulsion is a good time, and the remastered graphics look great. Really glad the game eventually marks the collectables on the map so I didn't have to rely on a walkthrough to get the true ending, though I did manage to find nearly all of them on my own before then.
Teslagrad is a title that I hadn't touched in like 8 years, back when it was a PS Plus offering, and even then, it was only for like 3 minutes before I went back to playing The Witcher 3 or something.
Now that enough time has passed for it to receive a next-gen remaster to coincide with the sequel, I felt that it was high time to give it a longer chance than 3 minutes.
I'm glad I did, since I found Teslagrad to be a solid entry into the pantheon of difficult side-scrolling puzzle platformers that masochists the world over can enjoy.
Seriously though, Teslagrad has a lot going for it. Gorgeous hand-drawn art style, great soundtrack, intriguing setting, and well-designed mechanics and boss fights.
The only thing that really lets Teslagrad down for me is the uneven difficulty and, by proxy, the lack of accessibility options. The latter is understandable for the original since it predated the push for the inclusion of accessibility settings for those that need them, but it would have been a nice feather in the cap for this remaster.
Especially since Teslagrad is one of those games that you have to play 100% to get the 'true ending', something that I had tried to do along the way, but since, in true Metroidvania fashion, it gates progression to certain areas until a new tool is available to you, I simply lost track of the ones that I had missed.
Unfortunately, since there's no real way to see the ones you have missed on the map, I lacked the motivation to go hunting for them after the final boss, so I just settled for the standard ending. While yes, that was more down to me than the game itself, it still would have been nice for the game to cut me some slack in the backtracking department.
Qualms aside, however, I still had a great time with Teslagrad. While there were issues with backtracking and difficulty spikes outside of the boss fights, it still left a positive enough impression to be a great time in a lovingly crafted world, set to a moving score.
7.5/10
Now that enough time has passed for it to receive a next-gen remaster to coincide with the sequel, I felt that it was high time to give it a longer chance than 3 minutes.
I'm glad I did, since I found Teslagrad to be a solid entry into the pantheon of difficult side-scrolling puzzle platformers that masochists the world over can enjoy.
Seriously though, Teslagrad has a lot going for it. Gorgeous hand-drawn art style, great soundtrack, intriguing setting, and well-designed mechanics and boss fights.
The only thing that really lets Teslagrad down for me is the uneven difficulty and, by proxy, the lack of accessibility options. The latter is understandable for the original since it predated the push for the inclusion of accessibility settings for those that need them, but it would have been a nice feather in the cap for this remaster.
Especially since Teslagrad is one of those games that you have to play 100% to get the 'true ending', something that I had tried to do along the way, but since, in true Metroidvania fashion, it gates progression to certain areas until a new tool is available to you, I simply lost track of the ones that I had missed.
Unfortunately, since there's no real way to see the ones you have missed on the map, I lacked the motivation to go hunting for them after the final boss, so I just settled for the standard ending. While yes, that was more down to me than the game itself, it still would have been nice for the game to cut me some slack in the backtracking department.
Qualms aside, however, I still had a great time with Teslagrad. While there were issues with backtracking and difficulty spikes outside of the boss fights, it still left a positive enough impression to be a great time in a lovingly crafted world, set to a moving score.
7.5/10