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  • svgDec 17, 2019Quick Bits

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    Melbits World is a cooperative puzzle platformer by Melbot and released for the PS4 as a PlayLink title back in February 2019. Thanks to the developers, I was lucky enough to test Melbits World Pocket the mobile version of the game. This was without the multiplayer feature and not to be confused with the mobile companion app for the PS4 game. I really enjoyed customizing my adorable virtual pixies with accessories and leading them to the end of several challenging levels.

    Therefore, when Melbot recently announced that Melbits World is out now on PC (as of December 16th, 2019) and coming to the Nintendo Switch on December 19th, 2019, I got really excited to delve back into this charming world. A world all about “spreading the good vibes across the Internet.” Now due to the collaboration with publisher Plug in Digital, you can get the Melbits World on Steam (controller support only) for a 34% discount until December 23rd, 2019, and the Nintendo Switch version for only $12.59!

    In Melbits World there are 4 worlds, each one with 9 levels where you can dodge evil viruses, collect seeds, rotate platforms, and utilize springs. It’s a family-friendly game you can play with up to 4 players and collaborate and communicate with each other! To find out more about Melbot’s upcoming projects, check out my article on the Melbits POD; a toy for mobile devices.

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  • svgNov 26, 2019News

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    Described as a ‘humorous light platformer’, fans of felines will be delighted to know that a platform game with RPG and puzzle elements featuring cats is coming to Nintendo Switch this week. Developed by DeqafStudio and published by No Gravity Games, the game will be playable in 13 different languages including, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian.

    Not dissimilar to Mario and Zelda games, the aim of Strike Force Kitty is to train a team of four kitties to save a princess. The concept of the game might sound all too familiar, (you have to fight bosses along your journey). However, the game is unique and appealing due to its cute and humourous nature.

    Features of the game include:

    • 350 unlockable costumes for your kitties
    • Multiple big bosses to battle
    • Cute graphics with RPG and puzzle features
    • Over 30 different artifacts
    • Bespoke art, music and animation to provide hours of entertainment
    • Funny and easy to play
    • Cats. ?

    The game’s usual price is very affordable at just USD$4.99. However, if ‘pre-purrchased’, it can be obtained for the bargain price of USD$3.99 here.

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  • svgSep 3, 2019News

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    A few days ago Team17 and Playtonic Games announced that their 2.5D platformer, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, is releasing on October 8th, 2019! Pre-order starting now and get 4 Tonics included in your digital or physical copies! That’s right, the sometimes useful but mainly ridiculously pointless Tonics introduced in the previous game, are back! Furthermore, some Tonics already available in the game include: infinite rolling, harder enemies, super speed, as well as the ability to unlock new environmental and visual effects! To learn more about Tonics, along with a trailer, see below.

    TONIC FACTS

    • Tonics can be found in the Overworld. Search high and low!
    • Spend quills earned in 2D levels to unlock the Tonics you find.
    • Up to 3 Tonics can be combined into creative concoctions!
    • Tonics can only be used in 2D levels, excluding the Impossible Lair.
    • There are 62 Tonics to collect.
    • Trowzer might have a secret unlockable Tonic up his er, sleeve.

    Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will be releasing on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC for £24.99/$29.99/€29.99. Pre-order the game and get the exclusive ‘Trowzer’s Top Tonic Pack’ – a collection of four cosmetic Tonics including Large Head Tonic, Glow Worm Tonic, D.I.S.C.O. Tonic and Yooka 64! Although, Playtonic Games has confirmed that this pack will be purchasable at a later date as well.

    We here at myPotatoGames are definitely ready to thwart another one of Capital B’s evil plans! Stop him from enslaving an entire kingdom of bees with the help of Queen Phoebee and her Royal Beetallion. We just can’t get enough of that cheeky humor and the delightful soundtrack! To learn more about the game, check out some gameplay footage from our previous article here: A Deeper Look Into Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.

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  • svgSep 1, 2019News

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    Over two years ago, we covered the then-upcoming PS4 release of a cute little game galled Wuppo. Imagine our surprise when, after sneaking onto the Nintendo Switch e-shop to admire Link’s Awakening screenshots (again), we saw Wuppo: Definitive Edition gleaming proudly among the other upcoming releases! The game is set to release less than a week from now, on September 5.

    Wuppo is a Wum. (Wums appear to be small spherical creatures of different colours who resemble something between a rice ball and a gumball with four tiny legs.) And Wuppo has lost his home. He has been exiled! There’s nothing left to do but travel the world and find somewhere new to call home. It looks like he’ll have some pretty big adventures along the way. And maybe even resolving some ancient conflicts as he goes! If you’ve got to resolve ancient conflicts, we think doing so in a cute and colourful world is the best choice.

    That looks really heavy!

    Game Features

    • Enjoy the game together in an all new co-op mode!
    • Explore a wondrous world filled with Wums, Fnakkers and other strange creatures.
    • Resolve an ancient conflict on your quest for a new home.
    • Use items and social skills to overcome diverse challenges.
    • Fight numerous enemies, ranging from small, to big, to MASSIVE!
    • Collect filmstrips to discover the world’s detailed history.
    • Enjoy an enchanting and memorable orchestrated soundtrack.
    Is trumpet-playing one of our social skills? Or are those bubble wands?

    We look forward to honing our social skills and collecting bits of filmstrip to piece together the world’s history on September 5th. (Wuppo: Definitive Edition will also be on Steam and GoG.) Watch the video here for more information.

    For another game about a cute protagonist trying to get home, check out A Hat in Time. It will hit Nintendo Switch on October 18, and it, too, will have a brand new co-op mode!

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  • svgAug 28, 2019News

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    We have a cute, colourful action-adventure platformer game (featuring Fin, the fennec fox!) coming up very soon on the Nintendo Switch. Fin and the Ancient Mystery is 30% off during the pre-order period, which will end on September 3, when the game is released. At $4.99 regular price, that makes it $3.49 until Tuesday!

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    Fin and the Ancient Mystery follows a young fennec fox named Fin. And he has no small task ahead of him! Fin must unravel the mysteries around him to be able to defeat the ancient “Destroyer”. If he doesn’t, the whole world will be in jeopardy.

    Fin’s adventure is not only of the world-encompassing type, though. He will also have to deal with personal tragedy. He must also learn to cope with betrayal and find new friends on his journey.

    Your journey will see you solving puzzles, battling enemies with might and magic, navigating platforms and even taking on quests. There are many environments and many secret rooms and hidden artifacts to find. We love the look of this colourful world already. If you love it, too, head over to the Nintendo Switch eshop, where you can pre-order this game on sale right now.

    If you like family-friendly fun on Nintendo Switch, check out these three games that are all either available now, or coming up in only a day or two!

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  • svgAug 16, 2019News

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    A Hat in Time is a game that has maintained overwhelmingly positive feedback on Steam since its launch in late 2017. A few months after its Mac and PC release, it was also brought to PS4 and Xbox One, but there were no plans to bring it to the Nintendo Switch at the time. That has now changed! Very recently the news surfaced that it was not only confirmed to be coming to the Switch, but has a physical release date of October 18, 2019.

    Get ready for a big journey

    A Hat in Time is a very cute 3D adventure platformer featuring a little girl in a big top hat, known simply as “Hat Kid”. Hat Kid’s goal is easy to sympathize with: she wants to get home. But as she is on her way there, the Mafia of a nearby planet attack her ship when she won’t pay their ‘toll’. All of her ship’s fuel (magical hourglasses called ‘Time Pieces’) is scattered to the world below. She must gather them all up before she can resume her journey. Looks like she’ll need to look pretty hard!

    It won’t be easy…

    Some rather morally bankrupt characters surround Hat Kid. In addition to the Mafia, there is ‘Mustache Girl’. Mustache Girl wants to use Hat Kid’s Time Pieces to travel in time so that she can become a superhero. In refusing (because disrupting time is very dangerous), Hat Kid gains a rival in collecting her Time Pieces back up. Mustache Girl now wants to find them and keep them for herself!

    And so your trials begin! In addition to collecting Time Pieces, each level also contains yarn balls, and Hat Kid can use them to make herself some new hats. Each hat imbues Hat Kid with a different power! Each different ability will be useful in traversing the world across which Hat Kid’s Time Pieces are scattered. Relics must also be collected, as each one is part of a puzzle.

    But it will be FUN!

    This cute adventure looks like a great fit for Nintendo Switch. We’re all eagerly keeping an eye on the Nintendo eShop to see when it will appear. The ‘Seal the Deal’ DLC that was available on PC will be included free with a physical copy of the Switch version. (You will have to download it separately from the main game.) We hope that the DLC content will also make it to PS4 and Xbox One in the future.

    The Switch version of A Hat in Time will also include a new co-op mode! Check out this trailer for a very cute overview of the game:

    If you’re looking for more information on A Hat in Time, you can check out the Steam page. Or go to the official site. If you like 3D platforming games, then look into Tamarin, as well! If you want a cute platforming game you can play right now, try The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince.

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  • svgAug 15, 2019News

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    TY the Tasmanian Tiger was a platform game developed by Krome Studios and published by EA Games back in 2002 and was available for the Nintendo GameCube, the PS2 and the Xbox. Three sequels were released shortly after on the same consoles and later ported to the Game Boy Advance. In 2016, a remaster was brought to PC (Steam). Now Krome Studios are back and in just three short days successfully completed their Kickstarter campaign and still going strong with over $100,000 in pledges at the time of writing. If you were a fan of these games growing up, head on over for some awesome rewards and stretch goals! We here at myPotatoGames are big fans of the nostalgic platforming games such as Crash Bandicoot/Team Racing and Spyro which already have their own remasters so it’s definitely been a great year for comebacks.

    About TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD

    TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD is the remastered port from the PC with the improved the graphics and audio. With the Nintendo Switch digital port, if that’s your console of choice, you can use the new controls which will let you use the joy-cons like boomerangs to throw and glide! The Nintendo Switch version will also include the following (PS4 and Xbox will be getting the same upgrades minus the motion controls):

    • Joycon 6-axis motion control for throwing the rangs, gliding and precision boomeranging!
    • Screen-space ambient occlusion
    • Fully dynamic shadows
    • Color correction and bloom
    • High definition (HD) art textures for the levels and characters
    • Improved particle effects
    • Improved camera
    • New Gamemode called “Hardcore Mode”
    • QA testing and problem fixing 
    • Nintendo Lot Check
    • New TY character skins (a stretch goal feature) 
    • Compatible with both the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite*  (*requires extra controllers to be able to use the TY motion controls.  i.e. throwing and gliding.)

    The Story of TY the Tasmanian Tiger

    You are TY, the last of the Tasmanian Tigers. Raised by a family of Bilbies, you can only vaguely recall your real parents. You’ve always thought that all the other Tassie Tigers died a long time ago. But then the Bunyip Elder found you, and told you that your family is alive, but trapped in the Dreaming. Now hold your horses… don’t get upset… you see they’re not stuck there forever, if you’re up for a bit of an adventure! You see, deep in the Outback, there’s this kind of glowy portal thing that is a doorway to the Dreaming. And around that portal there are some carvings in the rock, where five ancient mystical Talismans used to lay. Now, all you have to do is find the five Talismans, put them in the carvings, and the portal to Dreaming will open!

    Key Features

    • Join TY on a RIPPER of an adventure to free his family from the Dreaming, through 17 levels of the Australian Outback, in their old-school 3D platforming glory! 
    • Wield 13 different hi-tech boomerangs including the Frostyrang, Flamerang, and the powerful Doomerang.
    • Interact with a cast of over 50 different Australian mates and unruly foes.
    • New Hardcore Mode – removes all of the respawn points, giving you just one life to complete the game!
    • TY on Switch will support Switch Lite* (*requires extra controllers to be able to use the TY motion controls.  i.e. throwing rangs, gliding and aiming in first person view. 
    • Full language support (voice and subtitles):   Strayan (English), French, German, Italian and Spanish 

    Rewards and Stretch Goals

    Besides getting a digital copy of the game on the console of your choice and your name in the credits, there are many other exciting rewards to go for such as: a beautiful 155-page artbook, a digital, CD and limited edition LP record of the game’s soundtrack, Sly’s necklace, a mug of Maurie, TY’s sun-patterned board shorts, an animal character of your likeness in the game, and a TY statuette!

    We Potatoes feel pretty confident that Krome Studios’ Stretch Goal of the digital PS4 and Xbox port since they’re almost there, but there’s also once last goal that has yet to be announced. Besides that, they’e reached their stretch goals for new TY skins on the Switch and a brand new TY adventure in digital comic form.

    The Kickstarter campaign has another 20 days to go but notes that the digital console keys will be distributed to backers sometime during the first quarter of year 2020. If you’re interested in Australian-themed games, check out our article here: Dinkum – Explore an Island Inspired by the Wild Australian Outback.

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  • svgAug 13, 2019Reviews

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    Liar Princess and the Blind Prince is a fairy-tale puzzle platformer that is like playing through the pages of an old, yellowing storybook.  Developed by Nippon Ichi Software in Japan, it was localized by NIS America and released in February 2019. After playing the first two (of six) chapters, I’m here to give you my impression of playing this charming game on Nintendo Switch.

    The Story

    Liar Princess and the Blind Prince looks like a fairy-tale storybook, and reads like one, too.  The basic premise is that a monstrous wolf sings in the forest every night, and a young prince of a nearby castle hears her, and listens, because he loves her voice.  He applauds enthusiastically for her song every time, and the wolf is very grateful, though she knows she cannot go down and meet him, because she is a monster. 

    One night the little prince decides he must see the owner of this mysterious voice, and he braves the dangerous, monster-ridden forest to meet her. But when he finally crests the rise the wolf always settles on for her singing, the wolf reaches out to cover his eyes, because if he sees her, he’ll know!  He’ll see that she’s a monster, and her happy little audience will disappear, and she doesn’t want him to go.  She loves that he listens to her every night.  But she IS a wolf, and her claws are long and sharp, and in trying to cover his eyes, she blinds him.

    The prince is blinded

    With the little prince now blind and alone, rejected by his family as useless, our story truly begins.  The wolf is so remorseful that she seeks out the witch of the forest to gain a human form for herself. With that, she will be able to take the prince by the hand and lead him through a forest fraught with danger, to bring him to the witch so that she can restore his vision.

    The Art

    The style of Liar Princess and the Blind Prince is a beautiful variety of adorable.  With dark sepia-tones over everything, it gives the feel of the deeply yellowed pages of an old book.  The dramatic black outlines, thick and inky, add atmosphere, giving a feeling of darkness and danger to an otherwise pretty world.  There’s a simplicity to the style, like a children’s book, even though the scenes, when brought together, are intricate. The animation is smooth but also simple. There’s no high-speed action to try to keep track of in Liar Princess, and that feels in keeping with the story and setting.  

    The Puzzling Platforms

    The gameplay relies on you having two forms…both wolf and princess.  If you jump too high, you’ll both plop to the ground when you land, being only small children without the athletic ability to handle such a thing smoothly.  A short fall won’t hurt you, but you’ll take a moment to gather yourselves and get back up, so don’t fall when there is an enemy nearby!

    In wolf form, you’re actually very tough and strong and can jump much higher, as well as fight the enemies that stand in your way.  The prince himself is another crucial game-play element, because you can’t hold the prince’s hand to guide him with a paw full of claws, so you will need to constantly be swapping between princess and wolf forms to best tackle what lay before you. 

    The prince won’t move without you.  He can’t see.  He doesn’t know what’s around him, except danger.  It’s no wonder that every time you take his hand, his look of worry disappears to be replaced with a sweet, reassured smile.  If you let go of his hand, he’ll stay exactly where you left him (so please don’t leave him anywhere with monsters…they’ll gobble him right up!)  He can’t see you, so you can transform back to a wolf at any time and do what you need to, to clear his path, and then the two of you can proceed onward again.

    Liar Princess and the Blind Prince...the prince and princess hold hands.
    Protect this adorable pair!

    High investment

    The game really makes you regret your mistakes.  If you don’t jump far enough to catch the next platform solidly, the prince you’re pulling along behind you will fall helplessly to his death. The princess will drop to her knees in shocked realization at what she’s done, and she covers her eyes and weeps as the End Game screen pops up and starts the reloading process, to force you to start the level over again.  You have to protect that precious little dumpling at all costs.  Everything you’re doing is for him, after all!

    In some games you might press Y once to take his hand, then press it again to release it, but in Liar Princess you must hold Y continually to keep hold of the prince’s hand.  It’s a good choice of mechanic, in my opinion, as it really lets you feel how much attention you need to pay to your teeny buddy, to guide and keep him safe.  It also means you sometimes have to act fast, such as if you’re walking toward a bouncy mushroom in an area with respawning monsters.  You’ll have to release the prince’s hand, transform into the wolf to quickly dispatch the monsters, transform back to a princess so you can grab the prince’s hand again, and jump onto that mushroom to propel you to the ledge before the next monster can get to you.

    So, is it worth playing?

    Here’s a confession.  I am terrible at platformers.  I have no sense of timing, and, like my entire family (so there’s no hope I can escape it!) my reflexes are slow.  So even though I’ve heard from others that the game’s platforming is simple or easy, for me, Liar Princess and the Blind Prince has actually been quite difficult.  In fact, I’m stuck right now with my wee prince up on a ledge, and I can’t figure out how to get him back down, or how to go forward, and I’m only at the end of Chapter 2!

    Normally this would frustrate me until I gave up, since if a game is more frustrating than fun, I want no part of it.  Instead, after dying twenty times in a row, I’m going to look it up online, to figure out what I’m doing wrong, so I can go back and continue the story.  I need to see these two brave little munchkins to the end!  Even if one of the munchkins is actually an enormous wolf with claws like swords.

    The game makes these two impossible to resist. It isn’t just the basic story. As you go along, you’ll get little interludes between the two. As an early example: the wolf can’t deal with fire, and the prince doesn’t like the wolf’s beloved raw meat, but does love flowers. So the prince will carry lanterns for the wolf, and the wolf will go out of her way to get flowers to give to the prince.

    They are, quite simply, the cutest and most endearing pair of adventurers I’ve ever seen in a puzzle-platformer game. I cannot leave them alone. I will struggle mightily against my many defects as a gamer, and complete this game no matter what it takes!

    Where to buy

    The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince is available digitally on Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4, as well as in physical form at most game retailers. If you’re interested in this game, why not also check out The Way Remastered, another emotionally-charged platformer? Or try Another Sight, a story about a girl losing her sight when the tunnel she was exploring with her kitty companion collapses.

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