- Publisher: Unity Games
- Release Date: May 12, 2014
- Also On: PlayStation 4
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May 12, 2014A heart of gold surrounded by endless color makes it all easier to swallow, but you're left wondering what could have been had The Last Tinker's gameplay come on as strong as its presentation.
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May 9, 2014If you are looking for a heart-warming and funny game between all those shooters and dark action games, this is the one for you.
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Aug 4, 2014The Last Tinker: City of Colors is undoubtedly pleasant to look at and play, it just never shines particularly.
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Jul 8, 2014The result is a game that in some areas feels average and mediocre, but is highly charming, entertaining and fun in others, to a degree where that makes up for its shortcomings.
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Jun 25, 2014If The Last Tinker's goal was to leave a smile on my face, it accomplished it every time I played.
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May 28, 2014City of Colors blends the aesthetic stylings of platformers past with design concepts taken from modern classics. While this meeting of the times may not be a constant success, there’s enough gorgeous art and frequent, snapshot ideas here to satisfy any gamer’s dietary requirement of primary colours.
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May 26, 2014Mimimi Productions did it: Finally a 3D action adventure found a home on the PC again. In the end you can feel and see the lack of the teams’ experience though. But even if it falls short of giving the likes of Sly Cooper a decent challenge, this is an entertaining trip into a colorful world of paper mâché.
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May 19, 2014The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a cheerful game, but starts of dreadfully slow, has boring combat and scanty background music. This hurts the atmosphere. Look past these blemishes, and what remains is a colorful game that entertains for quite some hours.
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May 12, 2014It had great potential, and it's a shame that it doesn't get a chance to fully express it. The art behind the project is simply beautiful, but gameplay doesn't show the level of polish we expected. It's still a 10 hours long fun-ride, so you might consider it even if it's not perfect.
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May 12, 2014The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a colorful platform and adventure game, fun but not difficult, not challenging and too far from the classic 3D platform games like Banjo Kazooie.
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May 19, 2014The cheerful appearance and adult racism-metaphor suggest that The Last Tinker: City of Colors could be an intelligent piece of art. Nothing could be farther from the truth; they remain charming shells for a decent platformer.
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May 16, 2014The Last Tinker is not going to give action fans and people looking for a challenge a ton, but it does offer up a rather fun and interesting game that has both a great art style and a nice, kid-friendly story at a casual pace.
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May 9, 2014The Last Tinker doesn’t play poorly, just unremarkably. And for the type of game it aspires to be—one that sets itself the unenviable task of recapturing the spirit of a genre’s golden age—an experience that is ”just good enough” can feel a bit underwhelming.
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LEVEL (Czech Republic)Jul 8, 2014Despite its flaws, this is a solid game to play with your young ones - especially if you've beaten all the Lego games.
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games(TM)Jun 28, 2014Childish, bright and gaudy - but great fun! [Issue#149, p.127]
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Jun 26, 2014Simple gameplay mechanics that never fulfill their potential are something that drag a beautiful game with an attractive aesthetic.
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Jun 10, 2014There's nothing deeply wrong with The Last Tinker: City of Colors. It's playable, and in places quite enjoyable, but it's so pedestrian in its approach that it's a disappointment.
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Jun 5, 2014A world filled with colours that are talented enough to dispute is just a setting for a slightly confusing and rather dull platformer. Racism as its theme should have been elaborated not as childishly, for children are the ones who probably will not fall for the Last Tinker: City of Colors title.
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May 30, 2014The Last Tinker: City of Colors certainly has charm and a wonderful colour pallet that smothers the player in a warm and loving world. The issue is that many people won’t be engaged by the stripped down controls and limiting gameplay.
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May 27, 2014City of Colors is an enjoyable trip, far from the quality of the inspirations like Banjo-Kazooie, but given the size of the production team, which until then was devoted to mobile gaming, it is worthwhile to highlight the achievements, especially its beauty and aesthetic diversity.
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May 13, 2014The Last Tinker is a joyous platformer inspired by classics such as Jak and Daxter and Banjo Kazooie. The game is very colourful and it sometimes feels kind of childish, because of the easy levels with no challenge at all.
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May 12, 2014A nice and very good looking, but also too simple, linear and limited an adventure, even for its young target.
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Jul 9, 2014The biggest mystery of this colourful world is its intended audience. Adults will dismiss this otherwise decent game as too simplistic, and kids will stop paying attention halfway through.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 36
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Mixed: 7 out of 36
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Negative: 12 out of 36
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