Triple Take

Triple Take is a precision platformer developed by FlyAway Studios and published by Bonus Stage Publishing that transforms a familiar side-scrolling formula into something far more unusual through clever design and surprising structural ideas. At first glance, it resembles a traditional retro-inspired platformer built around hazards, movement mastery, and increasingly demanding stages. However, the game quickly reveals a stronger identity through mechanics that challenge player expectations and reshape how progression works. Instead of simply pushing players through levels one time before moving forward, Triple Take builds its entire experience around repetition, adaptation, and unpredictability. The core idea immediately separates it from countless other platformers. Every stage requires three separate completions, but repetition never functions as padding or artificial length. Levels evolve after each successful run. Hazards shift positions. Routes transform. Familiar environments become unfamiliar. Players who believe they fully understand a stage quickly discover that mastery is temporary. Triple Take continuously changes the rules without abandoning the systems players have a…

Got it for dirt cheap on a keysharing site, and I enjoyed it. It's not revolutionary, or super deep, but it's a solid, tight, and fast little platformer that I can recommend if you want basically anything and everything platformers. Get it on a sale though, it's short.

I don't typically review games pre-completion but Triple Take is a rare exception. Initially I was sold on the unique gimmick and style (especially given it's obvious inspirations in terms of tone and aesthetics from the likes of Undertale). But there is just so much about the game at its core -- primarily on a gameplay front, that holds my overall experience and enjoyment back. Beginning with, first and foremost, hit detection. Compared to the other objects in an arena, your player's hitbox feels unnecessarily large. This in turn led to a lot of unfair deaths. Second, difficulty might be this game's strong suit but balancing is definitely a close 12th. As many may have already pointed out, the transition from World 4 to World 5 is ridiculous and frankly, makes me wonder if any proper playtesting of that section was even considered. 4-5 is an especially low point in terms of overall enjoyment. Strategy seems to take a back seat in favor of absurd snap reactions and overwhelming level gimmicks that are very unforgiving. Third, the outside gameplay ala DDLC and similar fourth wall breaking experiences was somewhat tedious, even if it is fitting for the narrative the game wants to tel…

Positives first, because at the core this is a good game no doubt, but there is just too much that keeps me from recommending it. I really enjoyed the characters and the dialogue. They are all very distinct and I personally found them funny and was looking forward to new interactions after each level. I also enjoyed the music. While each track is rather repetitive/loops quickly, each world and boss has its own music so the tracks never overstay their welcome. The Boss-fights are also pretty creative and fun. Now however the Negatives and they all have one complaint in common: Wasted Potential. Wasted Potential everywhere. First the level design, especially the hazards. I went into this expecting somewhat of a challenge having read some of the reviews. This challenge never came with the exception of the last phase of the final boss. Its just that the levels never do anything truly interesting. The worlds introduce new hazards and then proceed to do nothing with them. At times hinting at cool ideas just to not explore them. Concerning difficulty It also felt like the level designer was scared to make the levels truly difficult, giving you savespots/restspots everywhere to the poin…

I'm fairly mixed on this game but I think ultimately I lean towards a negative review. I think when the game is doing something right it's fairly neat, but the flaws just really hold it back. Biggest flaw is for sure the hitboxes. The player's hitbox is huge and this is a huge issue in a precision platformer. There's a lot of one gap jumps and man you'll just hit something when you think you are going straight on. The final boss was particularly annoying due to many moves exploding slightly larger causing you to barely dodge something, and still get hit despite visually it looking nowhere near you. Jumping is also pretty annoying, holding down the jump will make you continuously jump in place, but this is an issue when holding down the jump also makes you jump higher. It caused a lot of issues where I would make a far jump, but the player does a second jump I don't want when I land and since I stopped holding the jump it would be a tiny jump that often kills me since I wasn't expecting it. The game has a lot of gimmicks which some can be fun (air and ropes usually led to some decent design), but a lot just don't feel like they work right. Wall jumping feels really bad, jumping off …

Cool game, AWESOME soundtrack my one complaint is that the hit boxes for what can kill you feel WAY TOO BIG but overall it is a very fun game!