This is easily one of the more enjoyable games i've had played recently. Only discovering it from Steam's Demo Fest as one of my more anticipated indie games for the year. It did hold up to my expectations. Mostly taking elements of other games like Pikmin & oddly enough, Toy Story; making it with its own unique twist to it. The controls for it being tight & responsive.
The whole premise of it is that you're an alien that crashed into a house, and you're trying to repair yourself a ship to go back home. The general atmosphere that this game gives off is similar to 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' where you are exploring this massive human-sized room to you as the insect-sized player. there are plenty to chew in content with there being 3 side missions to the actual objective, along with collecting pollen.
Each room in the house is littered to the brim with Tinykins. They act much like pikmin with the five types of tinykins that are in each of them come with their own unique abilities; ranging from igniting things up to flames, levitating, however they will not carry over level to level.
The Pollen in-game is the equivalent to Gems in the spyro trilogy in which they are spread around the entire room. Once you pickup a certain amount that is listed, you go and get a new bubble to levitate longer than you normally would. After that it's all extra from there to just to say "I've done and seen everything" with a cheevo to add on top of that.
In terms with my least favorite things about Tinykin is all honestly, it felt like it just was too short. As soon as you start to get your last new ability with one of the tinykins' it just feels like once you get past the other two levels left (including the one you are introduced to it) it feels almost left emptied out. With a game like this where it puts it's collectathon inspiration proudly on it's chest. I would personally love to master this title but it just feels like it's an a chore to do that when all you have left is searching around a level for the last dozen pollen that could possibly be anywhere, maybe something like an attachment to the binoculars where you can spot out where the last remaining pollen would at least make things more easier on mastering this game.
I can easily recommend this game whole-heartily, especially if you love the 3D Platformers/Collect-a-thons. Definitely something that you could finish over a weekend. Hope that there is plenty of stuff to be added more in the future.
The whole premise of it is that you're an alien that crashed into a house, and you're trying to repair yourself a ship to go back home. The general atmosphere that this game gives off is similar to 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' where you are exploring this massive human-sized room to you as the insect-sized player. there are plenty to chew in content with there being 3 side missions to the actual objective, along with collecting pollen.
Each room in the house is littered to the brim with Tinykins. They act much like pikmin with the five types of tinykins that are in each of them come with their own unique abilities; ranging from igniting things up to flames, levitating, however they will not carry over level to level.
The Pollen in-game is the equivalent to Gems in the spyro trilogy in which they are spread around the entire room. Once you pickup a certain amount that is listed, you go and get a new bubble to levitate longer than you normally would. After that it's all extra from there to just to say "I've done and seen everything" with a cheevo to add on top of that.
In terms with my least favorite things about Tinykin is all honestly, it felt like it just was too short. As soon as you start to get your last new ability with one of the tinykins' it just feels like once you get past the other two levels left (including the one you are introduced to it) it feels almost left emptied out. With a game like this where it puts it's collectathon inspiration proudly on it's chest. I would personally love to master this title but it just feels like it's an a chore to do that when all you have left is searching around a level for the last dozen pollen that could possibly be anywhere, maybe something like an attachment to the binoculars where you can spot out where the last remaining pollen would at least make things more easier on mastering this game.
I can easily recommend this game whole-heartily, especially if you love the 3D Platformers/Collect-a-thons. Definitely something that you could finish over a weekend. Hope that there is plenty of stuff to be added more in the future.