Climb to the top and you can swing them back and forth and then fling yourself forward into space to get a real boost in speed and distance. Tchia's raft requires you to move between setting the sail and using the steering pole thing (I am not much of a mariner), while trees - oh god, the trees here.

But there are lovely wrinkles added everywhere. A lot of them are straight up pinched from Breath of the Wild: you can climb any surface or glide from a height as long as your stamina gauge lasts, and, as with Zelda, you can even drag out your stamina when gliding with the occasional judicious plummet. Soul jumping ties into what passes for combat here - you can jump into a lantern to set the game's rag-based enemies on fire and destroy their camps, and you can fling rocks about - but as you soul jump in and out of objects, held back only by an extendable pool of soul jump mana, you can chain it together with the game's other traversal elements too.Īnd they're brilliant as well. It's fun to find out what you can do as a shark that you can't do as a crab, and it's nice to get a weird kind of revenge on a mountain climb that has been defeating you by just hopping into a nearby bird and riding high over the terrain that had been such a pain moments before. Soul jumping is absolutely the best thing about Tchia. Animated by movement! The yogurt carton would be right at home. You can 'soul jump' into nearby animals and certain objects, racing over the earth as a deer, swooping under the clouds as a pigeon, tumbling along as a lantern or a rock.

But you have this power that allows you to get a grip on it. Tchia's a game about exploring an archipelago in the southwest Pacific: you're cast as a child and the world around you is absolutely huge as it rushes off in every direction. The things that don't quite work fade and the things that no other game does quite the same way only grow brighter. Tchia is one of those games that lives on in the memory after you're done with it. Availability: Out today on PC, PS4, and PS5.To be honest, it was a bit of a wrench to leave it and do the school run. The wind properly animated this yogurt carton, finding a real comic character for it as it batted back and forth along the paving. It sounds a bit American Beauty, I know, but actually it was a brisk delight. Not bragging, but on our street, today is bin day, and I celebrated by standing for ten minutes or so at the bedroom window while a stray yogurt carton ran up and down the path outside our house. A glorious spell of island hopping, with some surprisingly nasty moments.

Tchia ign review