Review anarchistica 1/5 · Dec 11, 2018
My head hurts
Tulpa is a platformer with an amazing atmosphere kind of like Limbo and a switch between 2 characters aspect like Last Inua.
Unfortunately, other than the puzzles it's bad:
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The ringing sound that constantly plays still hurts my head while i'm writing this. The game has no volume sliders or even different sound options, you can only turn all sound …
Tulpa is a platformer with an amazing atmosphere kind of like Limbo and a switch between 2 characters aspect like Last Inua.
Unfortunately, other than the puzzles it's bad:
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The ringing sound that constantly plays still hurts my head while i'm writing this. The game has no volume sliders or even different sound options, you can only turn all sound on and off.
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Puzzles are non-logical, for instance you have to bring a yellow ball to a ribcage to make an elevator work without any indication of any of this.
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Ophelia will go mad within seconds if something bad happens or Oliver strays slightly.
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When controlling one character the other often follows poorly, sometimes too slow, sometimes not at all.
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The controls are wonky. Sometimes Oliver won't grab something, sometimes Ophelia doesn't jump.
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The tutorial is poorly designed. I died right at the start because there's a little shake just before your first jump and i missed because of it. I also got stuck because the tutorial text introducing Oliver didn't show.
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You will die a lot, often for dumb reasons. Respawning is quite slow and you're often placed too far back.
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There's no indication of when the game saves and you can't access the options menu during the game.
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Did i say options menu? i meant the sound on/off menu. Although you can also choose in which language the game gives you a headache.
TL;DR: Literally and figuratively gives you a headache.