HoPiKo

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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 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,    HoPiKo 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.    … Expand

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
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  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.
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  2. NintendoWorldReport
    Feb 1, 2019
    85
    Despite a few hiccups, HoPiKo is still an incredible game. It’s a pure test of mechanical skill set to a breathtaking chiptune soundtrack, and while that may not be for everyone it is absolutely for me. Playing each level over and over until I had mastered the quickest path through it was insanely fun, and I can see myself coming back to this one to beat my best times again and again.
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  3. 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.
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