Tomba! Special Edition
In Tomba! Special Edition, leap, bite, and throw your way across stunning 2.5D landscapes in this vastly-enhanced update to a platforming classic!
Tomba! Special Edition is a action, platformer and 2d platformer game
developed and published by Limited Run Games.
Released on July 31st 2024 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 411 reviews of which 366 were positive and 45 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 13.65€ on Steam and has a 30% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit OS required)
- Processor: Interl(R) Core 2 Duo E7500
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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It's Tomba. What more can I say? One of the best games on the original Playstation, you already know.
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If you want the original experience, play it. its fun, you'll have loads of joy out of it. game can be short or long depending on your memory/attentiveness. but, if you want to avoid spoilers, don't read this bit. it details an issue with the game that came around originally, so i'll explain how to get all achievements without a second playthrough. early in the game, at the wobbly wharf is a barrel with spikes on it. don't break it. ignore it entirely until you get swim/dive later. then, come back, hit it 3 times with the BASIC blackjack, then push it to the right into the water. its an entirely missable quest if you break it, and it never returns. secondly, the hide and seek mini game. if you complete it before visiting the Hidden Village, you wont get a quest from Yan's dad. finding him once, twice, even 3 times is fine. but if you find him everywhere it clears his quest and you cant get the extra quest in hidden village. if all you want is a fun game, it'll work. its great, it was a wonderful game in my childhood. i beat it twice 99%/100% to post this with full honesty. have fun!
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- TOMBA CUT-CORNERS EDITION - Great game but let down by issues with a bad porting job. Tomba, or as I remember it as Tombi was an interesting platformer as it blended 2D and 3D together into 2.5D, but it also threw in some RPG elements like levelling up, side missions, a mission based structure like an RPG's storyline. And now 17 years later, we have the Tomba Special Edition, is it good? Well.....yes and no. ============================================================ =======What I liked======= TOMBA'S BACK It's Tomba on modern platforms, more people can play this and it's no longer considered dead media. Its the same game with all the bells and whistles and even achievements, it's short but sweet. (This also does go into a negative aspect, is the price justified at the game length? I personally think its fine but it might've been better if it were a little cheaper.) EMULATION QUALITY IS UP TO PAR! The graphical fidelity of the emulation is pretty much up to snuff with the likes of Duckstation so this is quite crisp and very clean (Some points in the game it will lag though from upscaling so just warning you.) REMASTERED TRACKS ARE VERY WELL COMPOSED MOSTLY! When you get to hear the remastered songs they truly do sound stunning and different from the original in a huge way, some songs however I prefer the original ones to give an example, I prefer the purified Phoenix Mountain from the original and the Underground Maze from the original over the remastered version. The Evil Pig Boss theme is always a bop and this is no exception, listening to it will have you tapping your feet. SAVING AND LOADING ANYWHERE FEELS FLUID AND FAIR. Saving and loading anywhere really is a lifesaver as you'll get into an area and have to go afk or something, you can save anywhere even in the middle of someone's dialogue which is super handy, the rewind function let me just say, you know, I know, we will use it on the motocross course to get the Gold Medal if we don't know the trick behind getting the time needed to get it. MUSEUM IS A LOVE LETTER TO FANS The museum is a treasure trove of Tomba's history, love it and you'll love it too. Interviews, artwork and commercials await you in the museum. =======What I disliked======= THE LOOPS RUIN THE EXPERIENCE Oh boy here we go, time to dig into why this port is not recommended despite me recommending it, I can't say I hate the game but I do feel let down by the plethora of problems it has.....starting with the in-game looping of tracks, to put it bluntly, they're terrible. Some songs lose their shine when they loop in a really bad way. Prime example is Mermaid's Singing Rock, this song is the most lullaby inducing and enchanting song, it truly was a beautiful piece of music, well its ruined in this game by the looping coming in way too soon only looping once and losing the whimsical feeling it has usually! Other songs like Village of All Beginnings loops too soon so it feels like you're not getting the full song as it doesn't sound quite like the original. Please fix this, this is a huge problem and comes from the fact the music is front-end. REMASTERED.....Sort of? Now you're asking, what does that mean? The remastered option allows you to listen to the remastered music during gameplay, well it's only PART true. Some cutscenes still use their original audio despite there being a clear rendition of a remastered version of the song in the games MUSIC PLAYER on the main menu. Very odd and strange, this might be a Carbon Engine issue as all they did was overlay the music over the top of the game and this has a strange side effect.....The music plays DURING the loading screens, so while it would otherwise be a surprise when you first hear that epic boss music, now you'll enter the Pig Gate and BOOM instant boss music.....It's kind of jarring.....and bad..... I really hope this is addressed! CUTSCENES LOSE THEIR CHARM! Cutscenes in the base game originally had sound effects that played like when you blow the fog away with the Furious Tornado (Spoilers wow, but come on guys its the first mission!) there are no wind sounds at all, no sound of the fog getting swept away....... It really is a shame. When you ride the Phoenix it also loses its charm as the Phoenix usually lets out a shriek when you are dropped into Baccus Village and now the sound is completely gone so this loses its touch. ALL the cutscenes use their original audio despite having remastered ones in the player, why? Why was it such a poor job? TWEENING Oh boy....here we go....the true way to be lazy is to use TWEENING instead of fluid animation. To put it bluntly the artwork on the titlescreens and menus.....all uses tweening.....and its a sign this was made for a quick buck and playing on our nostalgia. It's gross at times. ============================================================ =======Verdict======= So we have come to the end of this review. Do I recommend this game to other players to purchase? If you're a die hard Tomba fan, you'll probably buy it anyway, like me, but I was met with disappointment. If you're not a tomba fan I cannot recommend this, but I can recommend you play the original, it is a masterclass in how to change up a platformers formula! Limited Run Games is known for delivering poor service as I've seen countless times about people buying collector's editions and not getting them for months or even years! If they're gonna release old games for the carbon engine, please refine it first. You've got the Gex Trilogy coming up, if this ends up being bad you will end up angering a lot of die hard Gex fans, and trust me they've been waiting a LONG time for another Gex Night..... Don't blow it. So yeah I say if you are a fan, buy it just to see the museum content and listen to the remastered tracks and give the game a go through on the original soundtrack only as the remastered one is mired by bugs and missing songs which hamper the experience. If you know nothing of Tomba, skip this, it's not worth your time or your money. Thanks for reading -Drax
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My favourite game of all time: a favourite from OPM's demo disc when I was young, then a joy to play in full when I found a full PS1 copy, and now again on PC. The actual port is pretty bare bones, but it does the job, with a few neat bits like a fairly extensive museum of dev drawings, interviews etc. But... it's Tomba. No game has ever quite been like Tomba 1 or 2, the latter of which I'd love to see receive this treatment too. Just a joy to play still, 26 years on.
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TLDR: This game is good. The original was good too. This is easily worth your time. Can be speed-ran in 3 hours and may take up to 6-7 hours for someone playing blind with no looking up at wikis. IMO worth it at full price let alone at discount price. The long answer: There's something to be said about a good remaster. A good remaster can take the opportunity to go back and clean up bugs, prevent short-sighted decisions by the original team or patch out opportunities to lock yourself out of options that existed in the previous game. This is not a remaster, and does none of those things. So why do I recommend this? Tomba Special Edition is a no-frills graphical update to the original game, with emulator settings like save states, rewinding, upscaled cutscenes, and importantly display filtering. Adding the CRT filter does make the game feel back in it's retro home and with the cleaned up controls, feels more natural compared to the PS1 original copy that i broke out to side-by-side comparison. Buy this version if you would like to have an official, legal copy of the game without having to resort to downloading iso's and emulating, or buying expensive original disks on the secondary market.
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13
Developer
Limited Run Games
Publisher
Limited Run Games
Release
31 Jul 2024
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