Board 8 > Is A Hat in Time good?

(+) Yeah! (+)

contemplating the humble monthly bundle.
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very good
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I thought it was. Since you will be getting the PC version, I heard there's a lot of great mods/community stuff for it as well. I hope to try those out in the future.
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Absolutely. Great mods on PC, too.
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I started it not long ago but I just wasn't feeling the first world at all. A lot of little things about gameplay and exploration were annoying and the overall direction seemed tedious. It gave me a similar disappointed feeling of not living up to SM64 or Banjo as Yooka-Laylee did, only A Hat in Time was way less polished so I didn't stick with it. Still, there's a good chance I just don't care for the genre anymore.
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I dislike you, OP. I was doing so well with the mid-summer sales and not buying a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have time for...and now this.

Oh, and apparently I have a code for Lara Croft GO that I don't need, if anyone wants it.
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Mobilezoid posted...

I started it not long ago but I just wasn't feeling the first world at all. A lot of little things about gameplay and exploration were annoying and the overall direction seemed tedious. It gave me a similar disappointed feeling of not living up to SM64 or Banjo as Yooka-Laylee did, only A Hat in Time was way less polished so I didn't stick with it. Still, there's a good chance I just don't care for the genre anymore.

this is kind of how I felt but I chalked it up to "maybe I just don't feel like playing a platformer right now." I'll try it again later.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

very good

swirIdude posted...

Absolutely.

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Mac Arrowny posted...

very good

very very good
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Seems good so far.
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I really enjoyed it. There are some places where you can really tell there was a limited budget, especially in the animations, but all the things you want a platformer to be good at, it does extremely well.
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Fantastic game. First world is not the BEST, but Worlds 2 and 3 are incredible.
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Mobilezoid posted...

I started it not long ago but I just wasn't feeling the first world at all. A lot of little things about gameplay and exploration were annoying and the overall direction seemed tedious.

Exactly this but I stuck with it and it turned out to be one of my favorite games in a long time that I easily 100%'d with absolutely no hesitation

It is a very very very strange game. It's unpolished. The graphics kinda suck. The controls suck. The camera really sucks. The main character is boring and mildly cute at best. It's weak in everything that a platformer traditionally needs (3 Cs, controls, camera, character).

But my god is it so much greater than the sum of its parts. It's downright scary. I attribute it to the 4th C: content. The stuff in the game is just really good. It's impossible to describe but you will feel it by the end of world 2.
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I dont think the controls or graphics suck. And I like Hat Girl.
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Well if it's got the foolmo seal of approval I have to check it out
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foolm0r0n posted...

Mobilezoid posted...

I started it not long ago but I just wasn't feeling the first world at all. A lot of little things about gameplay and exploration were annoying and the overall direction seemed tedious.

Exactly this but I stuck with it and it turned out to be one of my favorite games in a long time that I easily 100%'d with absolutely no hesitation

It is a very very very strange game. It's unpolished. The graphics kinda suck. The controls suck. The camera really sucks. The main character is boring and mildly cute at best. It's weak in everything that a platformer traditionally needs (3 Cs, controls, camera, character).

But my god is it so much greater than the sum of its parts. It's downright scary. I attribute it to the 4th C: content. The stuff in the game is just really good. It's impossible to describe but you will feel it by the end of world 2.

This has made me more intrigued to try out a game than I have felt in some time

Like, my expectations are still very much in check, but this is fascinating

It is fascinating
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The controls are fine, and Hat Girl is way more than "mildly cute", but I'm with you on everything else. I would say there are 2 throwaway time pieces in the whole game, and everything else feels unique and worthwhile to play.
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I stopped playing when it made me collect three things (and boy was it super annoying having to run back to that one spot to try and follow the quickly-vanishing yellow line to find them) to open another thing to get a time piece. It felt like busywork.
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Robazoid posted...

I stopped playing when it made me collect three things (and boy was it super annoying having to run back to that one spot to try and follow the quickly-vanishing yellow line to find them) to open another thing to get a time piece. It felt like busywork.

It takes like 2 minutes to do each one...
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Robazoid posted...

I stopped playing when it made me collect three things (and boy was it super annoying having to run back to that one spot to try and follow the quickly-vanishing yellow line to find them) to open another thing to get a time piece. It felt like busywork.

i mean

isn't that what all these games are
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I didn't like it, but not as a Nanis way - I do enjoy 3D platformers
Mario, Banjo, Sonic, hell even Croc and Toy Story 2 back in the day

But a Hat in Time was just...mediocre
I don't know how to explain just what was missing, but it just lacked some polish
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Weakupedia posted...

Robazoid posted...

I stopped playing when it made me collect three things (and boy was it super annoying having to run back to that one spot to try and follow the quickly-vanishing yellow line to find them) to open another thing to get a time piece. It felt like busywork.

i mean

isn't that what all these games are

Ultimately they all come down to busywork collecting, sure, but most of them feel a bit more organic. Finding a jiggy in Banjo or earning a red coin star in SM64 was a natural result of exploration and figuring stuff out. That time piece in A Hat in Time was literally 'here are lines to three places, go there and then here'.

I also admit that I never made it past the first world so I don't know if its design improved at all.
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Nanis23 posted...

I don't know how to explain just what was missing

Your soul

But yeah if you stop in world 1 you won't get why anyone likes the game at all
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World 1 is for lack of a bettter term more safe than the other worlds. Not as experimental.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Nanis23 posted...

I don't know how to explain just what was missing

Your soul

I lost it at world 3
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I finished the first world last night, did not start on the second, and the only real complaint I have is the camera.

Well, that and I haven't yet figured out those snowflake diving board things, but I'm assuming that'll come with time.
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So apparently I didn't finish the first world last night. Silly me, I thought there were only four "stars," and then there turned out to be almost twice that number, and at least one was something I couldn't do.

Played through parts of worlds 2 and 3. Lots of charm, but man, I do not care for world 3. Also, there's a few too many stealth levels for my liking. Sneak through the studio. Sneak through the train. Sneak through the haunted manor...one of the things I liked about Mafia Town was that I had this area to explore and I kept returning to it for different things. That was one of the facets I loved about Mario 64. I feel like that's been completely absent from the other worlds.
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"Good" is understating it. Just play it. It's my 2017 GOTY.
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azuarc posted...

one of the things I liked about Mafia Town was that I had this area to explore and I kept returning to it for different things. That was one of the facets I loved about Mario 64. I feel like that's been completely absent from the other worlds.

This is why going back to world 1 after playing the rest of the game gives you a huge appreciation for it

But also, world 3 is deceptively open and explorey
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Personally I enjoyed World 4 the most because it was the most free roam
The rest were too much bla bla bla for a platformer
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foolm0r0n posted...

azuarc posted...

one of the things I liked about Mafia Town was that I had this area to explore and I kept returning to it for different things. That was one of the facets I loved about Mario 64. I feel like that's been completely absent from the other worlds.

This is why going back to world 1 after playing the rest of the game gives you a huge appreciation for it

But also, world 3 is deceptively open and explorey

Yeah world 3 is actually a lot like the others once you start to take down the fire walls; you realize it's been all connected the whole time. 2 is really the only one with completely separated areas come to think of it.

I thought it was fantastic. I liked it more than Odyssey, and it's one of my top 3 games of 2017. Great OST too.
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MC_XD posted...

I liked it more than Odyssey

This is the key

It is the polar opposite to Odyssey, a true expression of what indie means in the face of AAA
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It seems like a game I would enjoy but Odyssey is just so much up my alley that I probably wouldn't put it above that, but more platformers are good
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How are the workshop levels? Any good?
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I tried a couple and they were alright. I'm sure there's some pretty good stuff in there if you look for it.
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Alright cool. I picked it up in the Humble Bundle. Don't think I'll buy any more games any time soon. My backlog is too big, with lots of games I got for like 10-15 a pop that I'm realizing is adding up fast.
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Well, I "beat" it. I only finished world 2, and never entered world 4, but I had access to the end and figured I'd take a peek. Dive-bombs make that fight so much easier.

Anyway, I haven't finished world 1 because there's a stage that I apparently still don't have something I need, and I haven't finished world 3 because one of the rifts is behind the green flame, which won't go away no matter what I do. I also have no idea what the Mumble Badge does, but I bought it as soon as I could because I figured it'd be used in some key moment later, and I have yet to see it have any consequence whatsoever.
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The Mumble Badge just makes the characters sound like Banjo Kazooie characters. That's it.
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100% the game, it's worth it
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Well, this sucks. Bought the game but apparently there is no controller support for Mac. Waste of 12 bucks.
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OliviaTremor posted...

Well, this sucks. Bought the game but apparently there is no controller support for Mac. Waste of 12 bucks.

You're complaining about "wasting" $12 on a game when you wasted a hundred times that on a Mac?

foolm0r0n posted...

100% the game, it's worth it

also this
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My mac was free through my graduate program. I gave my PC laptop to my brother when his broke. My stipend is so low I qualify for food stamps. So yes I am annoyed about 12 bucks, way to make some grand assumptions.

That said I got it to work by just having the controller mimic keyboard and mouse.
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And yes it would be a waste by definition if I couldn't play the game. So fuck off.
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Okay, that makes things different. I did not know such a program existed (just school-owned loaners). My bad.

I can get how you're annoyed, then, but glad you got it to work.
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It's okay, I'm sorry I snapped at you. Just been having a rough morning and took it out on you. Sorry.
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OliviaTremor posted...

It's okay, I'm sorry I snapped at you. Just been having a rough morning and took it out on you. Sorry.

Don't worry about it - I could tell. We all have those days. I've been there!
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There is always a way to get controllers to work. It just might take extra steps
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foolm0r0n posted...

There is always a way to get controllers to work. It just might take extra steps

Tell that to Ori and the Blind Forest with gamecube controllers X_X
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