This challenge is what makes playing, and the long ascent worth climbing. These enemies put everything I have learned to the test, and had me unable to keep with my “slow & steady” method. Long, snake like enemies have lots of health– taking 4 spear hits before dying and are actively chasing the player up the course. More of the spawned enemies have a direct reaction to the player’s movement and direction. After a week of playing on and off, I was frequently making my way to world two, and that’s where things really begin. The combat within each zone gets exponentially more difficult. Learning each of the four areas takes repetition, and the repetition would be made more enjoyable by being able to get back into it. A quick restart, or quick retry from fom the failure menu is much needed. Quests and fast travel options (some of the only forms of persistent unlocks) are available in the main town, but when I was trying to master one of the later zones, it was tedious and defeating to spend the 30+ seconds necessary to get back into things. Instead of being able to jump right back to the start of the maze, players have to view a leaderboard screen, and then are transported back to the starting town. What adds to the frustration of repeated failure is the lack of a quick restart. When I planned my movements, I could consistently see higher climbs and fewer deaths. It took me a dozen or so frustratingly quick deaths before coming to the realization: Slow and steady is the way to the top. If you go in too fast, or without a plan you will be punished. TumbleSeed favors slow, tactical movements. Coming from other roguelike platformers, I was conditioned to be able to react quickly when obstacles present themselves, or when a situation changes. The seed uses gravity to roll and build momentum in whichever direction the vine is angled.
The player does not have direct control of the seed characters, instead the seed sits upon a vine and each analog stick lifts the corresponding side of the vine platform.
TumbleSeed brings this basic principle into a videogame with roguelike mechanics and adds heaps more obstacles.Ĭontrolling TumbleSeed is the most unique aspect of the game, and because of this I initially found it to be frustrating and imprecise. And a direct inspiration from 1980s physical arcade game, Ice Cold Beer where players move a marble and up a vertical path trying to drop the marble into certain holes worth more points. Various holes and obstacles line the path. In Labyrinth players rotate and tilt a maze suspended in a wooden box in an attempt to roll a marble into a final goal. TumbleSeed is very much a modern interpretation of the classic, physical game Labryinth.
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MonsterVine was provided with a Nintendo Switch code for review.
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch (reviewed), PC, and PS4 TumbleSeed takes some of the fundamental, modern roguelike mechanics and pairs them with an interesting control method that forces a slow precise crawl to victory, but only after hundreds of failures.
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