{"id":22573,"date":"2022-09-21T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22573"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:23:17","slug":"tinykin-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/21\/tinykin-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinykin (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the reasons why the Nintendo GameCube was one of my top favorite consoles was all the 3-D adventures I could sink my teeth into.\u00a0 I really miss those days.\u00a0 Fast forward to today where I mostly review indie titles that are average at best.\u00a0 Sure every once in a while I might play one that\u2019s mildly amusing, but it\u2019s getting rarer and rarer.\u00a0 Which is why Tinykin is such a surprise!\u00a0 It reminds me of a cross between two quirky GameCube 3-D adventures: Pikmin and Chibi-Robo.\u00a0 And I enjoyed it so much that I didn\u2019t want to stop playing it!\u00a0 Tinykin is available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

In the game you play as Milo, a human from the far future who lives on another planet.\u00a0 He loves history and archeology, and has discovered another planet where humans may have originated from.\u00a0 Could it be Earth?\u00a0 You warp to this planet to find out!\u00a0 Unfortunately, the device you need to warp back has broken.\u00a0 Even worse, the house you warp to has no humans in sight, and the house is HUGE!\u00a0 Luckily the giant house is also infested with bugs who need your help, and might be able to help you find parts to make a device to warp you back home.\u00a0 You also meet the Tinykin, strange creatures who follow you around and can help you explore the giant house.\u00a0 And so begins your adventure in Tinykin!<\/p>\n

As Milo, you can explore the giant house by running and jumping in 3-D.\u00a0 You can climb ropes and use a special device on your suit to encase you in a bubble temporarily so you can glide after a jump.\u00a0 Scattered about the rooms in the house are bits of pollen, and if you collect enough and give them to a certain bug, you can get your bubble move lengthened so you can glide longer.\u00a0 Another thing you\u2019ll find scattered about are different colored eggs.\u00a0 When you approach them, Tinykin will burst forth and follow you around.\u00a0 Each color Tinykin has a different skill.\u00a0 Pink ones are strong and can lift and carry objects around.\u00a0 Red ones explode and you can throw them to break down blocked passages or free other Tinykin.\u00a0 Green ones can be stacked and climbed like a ladder to reach higher areas.\u00a0 Blue ones conduct electricity and yellow ones can make bridges.\u00a0 You can throw Tinykin and you\u2019ll automatically throw the right one you need for the situation as long as you aim at it.\u00a0 This is the part of the game that reminds me of Pikmin.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t really any combat in this game, so the whole mood is very relaxed and chill.\u00a0 Most of what you\u2019ll do is just solve puzzles and explore to find more stuff.\u00a0 You might need to use a certain number of pink strong Tinykin to carry an object, and then figure out how to get it from point A to point B by clearing away anything blocking the path with bomb Tinykin, for instance.\u00a0 This emphasis on puzzle solving and exploration reminds me of Chibi-Robo.\u00a0 Other aspects of the game that remind me of Chibi-Robo is exploring a giant house obviously, but also how you interact with other characters.\u00a0 In Chibi-Robo, you helped out talking toys that came to life at night, but in Tinykin, you must help solve problems that all the different bugs in the house have to get what you need.\u00a0 Some of these situations are very clever, too.\u00a0 In the bathroom level, the dung beetles are annoyed at the silverfish bugs for partying all the time, but they realize the need the silverfish to party so they can clean up after them.\u00a0 So you must help them make a compromise to keep the tub side pool party going.\u00a0 The kitchen level is set up like a farm (the fields are just scrubbing sponges with the green or yellow sides up).\u00a0 The ants in this level are revolting at the upper class dragonflies in the cabinets above, so you must gather ingredients for a cake for all classes to share.\u00a0 And the final stage is a grand finale kid\u2019s room set up like an amusement park!<\/p>\n

There are a few problems with the game, but nothing that detracted my enjoyment of it.\u00a0 Sometimes I would miss a jump because of wonky camera angles and controls, and you do take fall damage.\u00a0 But you always start out where you left off.\u00a0 You can also take damage if you get in water, but again, you start out where you left off.\u00a0 Sometimes it wasn\u2019t clear how to use the Tinykin at first, especially the ones that conduct electricity.\u00a0 Also this is definitely a collect-a-thon type of game, which usually doesn\u2019t bother me.\u00a0 But you really have to scour the whole house and search every nook and cranny to get the Tinykin you need, but it was only annoying once in the last level.\u00a0 But really the worst offender is that the game is too short, as I was able to beat it in around six hours or so.\u00a0 But I guess that means this game didn\u2019t wear out its welcome, and I just wanted more of it to enjoy!\u00a0 So if you miss the quirky GameCube and PS2 days of 3D adventures like Pikmin, Chibi-Robo, or even a bit of Katamari Damacy, then you should definitely try out Tinykin.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the best indie games I\u2019ve played in a long time!<\/p>\n

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Tinykin is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, and Crude Humor.\u00a0 If you fall too far or sit in water too long, you\u2019ll just disappear with a splat and reappear near where you left off.\u00a0 There are also exploding Tinykin that you can throw at things to blow them up.\u00a0 But that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any bad language, and the only crude humor I could see was that you can climb into a toilet and talk with dung beetles.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may need help with some of the trickier objectives and jumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons why the Nintendo GameCube was one of my top favorite consoles was all the 3-D adventures I could sink my teeth into.\u00a0 I really miss those days.\u00a0 Fast forward to today where I mostly review indie titles that are average at best.\u00a0 Sure every once in a while I might play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22575,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions\/22575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}