Tchia overflows with personality and its own ideas, in a unique game world based on the small island of New Caledonia Tchia knows it's strengths and make them count, the charismatic set of characters, the beautiful views of natural places, everything makes it's setting different from everything you've seen before.

The movement deserves it's own text because soul jumping is so much fun, sure you can just do basic stuff like capture a bird and fly away and that's nice, however you can also chain captures your way trough a lot of space, like using a rock to go from the beginning of one island to another and even chaining some captures along the way, is such fun times.

And yes Tchia has it's flaws, primary the combat (even tough the devs know that and you don't need to fight in anywhere after the tutorial, yes even on that place, you just need to do objectives) and both the city and the character models could be better, however it does fits the game the city being the least interesting thing, the game isn't about that.

In the end Tchia don't have the money or time of bigger games to have "perfect" systems and all models and such, but they know what the core of the game is, and that core, is such unique and well executed that leaves you wanting more.

I can only hope for more great games representing different places and cultures in the same way that Tchia does.

Reviewed on Apr 02, 2023


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