HoPiKo

 Switch
Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Switch Player
    Feb 20, 2019
    70
    You can tell the developers put a lot of time into HoPiKo, and for that they should be commended. But we’d have liked to feel more in charge of the controls.
  2. The Indie Game Website
    Jan 30, 2019
    70
    The simplistic gameplay comes to life thanks to vivid, heavily retro geometric graphics (think Atari 2600-stylings and you’re close). HoPiKo is oddly fun and even though it can get quite challenging, has a nice zen-like flow to the levels.
  3. Cubed3
    Jan 25, 2019
    70
    Those without the calmest of dispositions need not apply. HoPiKo is the type of game that can quite easily cost the lives of a few controllers, and on Switch that could get a little pricey for those who like to play in handheld mode. Few will enjoy this, but those that do, will bloody love it this punishing, maddening, insane, brutal, and brilliant pain in the behinds. Those looking to be truly challenged, buy this now.
  5. Impulsegamer
    Jan 28, 2019
    50
    HoPiKo is challenging and moves at a lightning pace, although it can't escape the fact that it feels more like a game you'd play on your phone than on a console.

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  1. AliPMcG
    Jun 20, 2021
    7
    HoPiKo is a fun little 'hardcore-casual' game with great music, in which you blast through stages (or 'Runs') very quickly, precision andHoPiKo is a fun little 'hardcore-casual' game with great music, in which you blast through stages (or 'Runs') very quickly, precision and timing being the key. The Runs are broken down into 5 levels apiece, and to progress to the next Run you have to get through all 5 levels without dying.

    Unfortunately it's let down by a baffling design choice that makes it harder than it needs to be, and sometimes makes success feel more down to luck than skill. Your character can only jump from platform to platform, which he can do either perpendicularly (with a button press), or at an angle that you set with the analogue stick. To perform an angled jump, you point the stick where you want him to jump, and to trigger the jump, you release the stick. In practice, it is virtually impossible not to change the angle of the stick slightly as you lift your finger off it, so you lose all precision. I cannot understand why the angled jump isn't simply triggered by a button press - did no one find this infuriating during testing? To get to the 5th level in a Run and then die because you didn't go exactly where you were pointing, is controller-smashingly maddening.    … Full Review »