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Tearaway Unfolded Review Thread
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guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Can't wait. The Vita game was so special. I hope lots more people get a chance to play it this time around.
User 479360
Banned
I've played through most of it (for the first time, as I never played it on Vita), and it's a pretty neat game. It can get tedious, but it's so beautiful and rather creative for the most part. The combat can be frustrating, though.
I wanted to get a review up at embargo's end, but I've felt like garbage so I'm taking a bit of extra time.
I wanted to get a review up at embargo's end, but I've felt like garbage so I'm taking a bit of extra time.
MAN THIS QUOTE MAKES ME SO HAPPY
The original is one of the most brilliant and cynicism-free experiences I've ever had in a game. It tore down all my defensive walls and made me re-evaluate the reasons why I enjoy playing games. It was just that good for me.
If anyone is wondering why the Vita game is so good and why the PS4 game demands your attention, feel free to read my detailed topic about the game here. It's from the perspective of someone who is usually very critical of games like this, the ones that think gimmicks can supplant legitimate quality gameplay. And what I quickly realized is that in the case of Tearaway, this IS why I play games. Has tons of pictures and information, so if you're very skeptical and even remotely curious, read the link and you may get interested in the PS4 game.
Tearaway is a masterpiece.
HueyFreeman
Banned
Everybody check that thread out, it is one of the better threads on this board
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
I really can't say the original Vita game is a masterful example of design. The game part was so lacking in difficulty it was hard to judge large parts of it beyond simply being functional.
But it is such an incredible exercise in combining a theme and a medium and a tool into one creative expression. It's hard to even describe what it is exactly if you try to judge the whole experience. It could have been this shallow, pretentious, self-important hardware commercial, but instead it feels like innocently playing with papercraft in a way that only a video game could allow you to. I don't even know what that means exactly, but that's how it felt to me. It's like someone made a game out of an 80s dime store activity book.
But it is such an incredible exercise in combining a theme and a medium and a tool into one creative expression. It's hard to even describe what it is exactly if you try to judge the whole experience. It could have been this shallow, pretentious, self-important hardware commercial, but instead it feels like innocently playing with papercraft in a way that only a video game could allow you to. I don't even know what that means exactly, but that's how it felt to me. It's like someone made a game out of an 80s dime store activity book.
drotahorror
Member
Getting it day 1. If I had a vita Tearaway would have been the first game I bought. I was jealous it was coming to Vita and I'd likely never get to play it, and then it was sad to hear how badly it sold. Hopefully PS4 sales can make up for it.
HassanJamal
Member
It's almost impossible for anything to sell less than the Vita version
That is not possible
Btw good to see that both this and Until Dawn last week got good reviews.
I've already finished the game on Vita but at 40$ this is really tempting.
I do hope for the best for Mm and this remastermake but its got a few things going against it. It hasnt been heavily promoted by Sony, its a platformer-esque cutesy looking game launching a week after the mostly popular titles like MGSV or Mad Max, there hasnt been much buzz about it anywhere I've seen, online or offline.
Im hopeful the $40 price point helps but I really dont see this selling well enough. Dont get me wrong, Im still buying this as I loved the first one to bits but seeing it not sell well the first time, its hard not to think its gonna sell just as bad or even worse than the original.
Benzychenz
Member
I think I'll get it day one because I want the limited edition with the plushy.
But at the same time I hope some people on GAF get it early so I know for sure whether it's well worth playing if I've already platinumed the Vita version.
I don't trust the games media in the slightest
But at the same time I hope some people on GAF get it early so I know for sure whether it's well worth playing if I've already platinumed the Vita version.
I don't trust the games media in the slightest
Will double dip as much is new anyway.
The original is one of the best designed and most cohesive experiences I've had with a videogame. It's inclusive (which some see incorrectly as being merely too easy) and designed to involve you in a fun adventure, to involve you in a world that is distinctly light on grittiness and is really a place of fun and to steadily involve you as the player into an emotional experience that ends with a terrific payoff.
If your focus is deep, challenging gameplay over all the title may fairly not be for you but it you're looking for a taste of a game designed to leave you with a big smile on your face and the feeling you've had a fun, light and positive experience then check it out.
Having a decent appreciation of great artistic direction and quirky charm helps a lot too.
The original is one of the best designed and most cohesive experiences I've had with a videogame. It's inclusive (which some see incorrectly as being merely too easy) and designed to involve you in a fun adventure, to involve you in a world that is distinctly light on grittiness and is really a place of fun and to steadily involve you as the player into an emotional experience that ends with a terrific payoff.
If your focus is deep, challenging gameplay over all the title may fairly not be for you but it you're looking for a taste of a game designed to leave you with a big smile on your face and the feeling you've had a fun, light and positive experience then check it out.
Having a decent appreciation of great artistic direction and quirky charm helps a lot too.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Through't keyhole.
Have any reviews described the paper plane flying in detail?
Like, can you land/take off anywhere or how many launch points are scattered around?
StrongBlackVine
Banned
It is reviewiers' fault. A movie that has a 70 on Metacritic is great while a video game with same score is bordeline bad.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
No, Iota's got a new hair-do too (which you can edit) You can see it in the PS Nation screenshot above.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Sorry, but this would not be something I would expect. Disregarding the fact that I do not agree with your rating of the game's quality, it would not be a good example of what Nintendo often does very well. Tearaway is a very stylistic game, it gains much of its value not from its game mechanics, but its artistic direction and playfulness. Using all features of the Vita, albeit partially in a superficial (face in the sun) or needlessly complicated way (using the backtouch panel while also using buttons and sticks at the same time), emphasizing customization and having a strong artstyle with a charming storytelling are the focus of the game. On the other hand, most levels are extremely bland when assessed from an analytical point of view regarding player challenge, the platforming is servicable at best and the developers even used realistic shadows instead of gameplay-enhancing shadows that stay directly below the character.
While Tearaway might remind some people who do not play Nintendo-made games often of Nintendo games, because it is a game of the wide "non-realistic, non-brutal" style, which sadly has almost died outside of Nintendo, conceptually it is very far away from Nintendo's output and it certainly does not share the same strengths as Nintendo's games.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
In-game camera uploads are showing up on Tearaway.me
Animated GIFs appear to be 1 second at 15fps, no dithering.
Animated GIFs appear to be 1 second at 15fps, no dithering.
Look for another hobby, it´s pretty obvious you have no love for videogames. I'm not going to bother to explain you why this sentence is so joyless and soulless, you'll have to find it for yourself.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I do love video games, although my preferences are quite special. I don't think this sentence can prove otherwise. If we are discussing strengths of certain developers and games, the components that make a game must be analyzed both, in isolation and in interplay and Tearaway is not a game that plays to Nintendo's strengths, if you don't reduce them to making light hearted games - which is a mistake that is easily made by people who do not play many Nintendo games and judge them by their looks or maybe also a few people who do not want to or cannot take an analytical point of view towards a game's structure and design.
EDIT: To shortly explain what I meant by special preferences: I'm interested in almost nothing but game mechanics and mechanics-oriented leveldesign. So if given the choice between ten levels that use a limited number of different challenges and have a low density of challenging (not necessarily particularly difficult) content within them, maybe even sizable stretches of simply walking, but have distinct, varied and beautiful styles, breathtaking imagery and stylsitic creative playfulness on the one hand and ten levels that are supremely densely designed, building upon a small but well-planned through set of game mechanics, combining design elements in creative and increasingly challenging ways, but looks bland and like total ass at times, I'd choose the second choice in a heartbeat - and have a lot of fun with it. To give extreme examples of that: Take Yoshi's New Island and Tearaway, I think it's obvious which game adheres to which category more strongly. I'm one of few that would certainly prefer YNI. But I really do enjoy my time with thoroughly designed games, so why would I stop playing games? Oh and just to add: I did enjoy Tearaway a bit, too (I'd say it's a solid but not great game), but I was very disappointed that it was compared to Mario 64 on this very forum so much, because I would say it is closer to Uncharted than Mario in its design philosphy.
derExperte
Member
Goes to Amazon.de.
EUR 69,99
That's a mistake, right?
EUR 69,99
That's a mistake, right?
Shows up as 65 for me. They got an exclusive amazon.de edition with some ingame items and other physical goodies for 69,99 though.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
I'm just hoping there's a way (or they patch it in) to take a fullscreen PNG with the camera filters applied.
The 1024x768 tearaway.me uploads are still JPEGs.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
What a ridiculous response.
It's an opinion different than yours. Deal with it.
I found the game to be unchallenging and also thought it became incredibly repetitive very quickly. Should I "find another hobby," too?
metalslimer
Member
Lol
derExperte
Member
Other German shops have it listed for over 60 too which is far above what the game costs in other countries. If it's a mistake someone at Sony should give them all a call because it certainly kills preorders. If not, well, good luck selling more than a dozen here.
down 2 orth
Member
Well damn, I can't wait to play this. Its become the most anticipated game in my backlog by far.
JensenBeeswax
Member
Just did a double take on this aswell. Seems a bit steep.
Cynn
Member
I think you're right. If it had the Nintendo name on it, no one would question it for a second.
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
That IGN review is a really strange case. With how much the reviewer praises Unfolded's additions and positive changes to the original game for the majority of the review, and then takes two paragraphs at best to criticize the expanded content and not meshing well with the original experience / the message of the game and obtrusive boss battles, you'd consider them to be a minor setbacks to what's otherwise a great game. Yet their impact on the score makes them sound like a giant flaw that negates every other improvement the remake introduces and makes the overall experience inherently worse than the original.
tl;dr The score seems to magnify the game's weaknesses into a bigger problem than it is actually depicted in the review.
EDIT: Glad to see the game's doing well in reviews, regardless. Never owned the original, but played a demo of it on a PS Vita on display. Lovely experience. That and coming off the LBP games; as it stands I'm a huge fan of MM's work.
tl;dr The score seems to magnify the game's weaknesses into a bigger problem than it is actually depicted in the review.
EDIT: Glad to see the game's doing well in reviews, regardless. Never owned the original, but played a demo of it on a PS Vita on display. Lovely experience. That and coming off the LBP games; as it stands I'm a huge fan of MM's work.
SilentxS3ud
Banned
Expected nothing less! Loved the vita one and can't wait to play it again on PS4 and see what they added. Such a fun and light game
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Gamersyde have high quality 60fps video and the game looks stunning.
http://www.gamersyde.com/game_videos_3058_en.html
Very nice image quality.
http://www.gamersyde.com/game_videos_3058_en.html
Very nice image quality.
TimeEffect
Member
So the platforming/combat is derivative/not challenging/lite?
I know it's a kid friendly game, but does it diminish from the adventure aspect of the game?
I know it's a kid friendly game, but does it diminish from the adventure aspect of the game?
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Speaking regarding my experience of the Vita version, I find it hard to describe anything in the game as derivative, but "lite" is pretty fair.
I'm really concerned to hear the biggest issue for many is the new levels not blending with the old, and being poorly paced. I'm eager to see what I think.
Icyflamez96
Member
The Vita version was easy. I don't see why linear is a negative though...
wild wild rice
Member
It is indeed easy, short and linear. It's also pretty great! What it does well is presentation, charm and clever, effective use of Vita's features. The gameplay is simple but fun. Check Amirox's post linked above for an extensive love letter to the game.
It's really so inexpensive nowadays I can't imagine you feeling too burnt if you end up hating it.
I'd try the Vita version first since you already own it, just to see if it clicks with you. It's an extremely charming game (one of the cutest I've ever played), but I had a hard time sticking with it since i didn't find the gameplay that fun. I still pick it up every few months to give it another shot since I really want to like it due to the charm.
outunderthestars
Banned
Excited to finally have a use for the PS4 camera.
Can I quote you when someone post stuff like "it's impossible to enjoy games without 60fps" or stuff like that?
On topic, I'm going to start Tearaway on my vita these days, I hope I like it so I can play it again on PS4 someday.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
Its 40 quid on HMV/xtravision Ireland, which works out at less than 30 pounds I think.