TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3

I'll start this off with saying the game is fully playable on Deck without a single crash. Type in "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink %command%" without the quotation marks in your launch settings, and just make sure MSAA is Off and you don't set your Draw Distance any higher than mid, and you can max out everything else. No need for a specific version of Proton. Runs like a beauty. Anyway, onto the actual review: TY 3 is a weird game for me. I know full well it's the least liked of the original trilogy, and I can understand why people might feel that way. Keeping circumstances in mind, the biggest criticism and simultaneously the best praise I can give TY 3 is that it left me wanting more. This is easily my favourite game in the series, rushed development and all. The music is fantastic (as usual), the touchups to the combat are enough to make it fun, and being able to put together your own broken 'rangs with the stone system is just fun. It isn't long before you go from having to be conservative with your loadouts to decimating everything with 'rangs you can throw rapidfire that autotarget enemies and explode, and it feels good. The story's charming enough, though the character…

Unfortunately, this isn't a Ty the Tasmanian Tiger game. It's a mish-mash of weird things, like suddenly we're going to play Armored Core, then Ace Combat, then Mario Kart, then we have very inconvenient melee combat that in the middle of the game (if not sooner) fully erases because of explosion rangs being as strong as always, weird Grand Theft Auto but with clumsy robot crab instead of a car, etc. With each installment of the series (except 4th) devs went further and further away from originality of the first Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, leaving fewer and fewer instances of it's main gameplay. It went so ridiculous to the point developers decided to make direct sequel where whole game was literally just flight combat simulator and nothing else. Thank god they at the end of the day decided to scrap it. Really shows that developers lost the idea of this series since 2nd part. Speaking of which... it's just a lame copy of stuff that at the time were rising in popularity - big open worlds like GTA I've already mentioned briefly earlier. And with each part of the series overall quality of Ty games slowly degraded to the point the very last one is simple 2D platformer with... to put it …

This is people's least favorite of the original Ty games from what Ive seen- and maybe that's the case. But I went into this one first, just to be thrown into a world I was unfamiliar with but had been established already. I had a great time with those lenses. The world is so dope, the story is all over the place and wacky, the characters have such cute designs and easy to understand archetypes, and the Australian sense of humor and accents adds so much charm!

[b]For context I have 100% this game AND got all achievements.[/b] This might be the worst game I have ever played. It genuinely baffles me that KROME Studios had a good foundation of a game with TY 1, a series that could have competed with Spyro, but then they threw all of that away when they made TY 2. Then, to make matters worse, the geniuses at KROME Studios decided to take the feedback from TY 2 and throw it all away, because TY 3 is ALL OF THE WORST PARTS of TY 2 put into a game. TY 3: The Gundam Tiger, more like. Do you like playing the same two mini-games over and over again with a slight tease of platforming in between? Well have I got a game for you! In TY 3 you can restart generators with a Gundam and fight ships with a Gunship. Sorry, I mean Gunyip. That's it! Oh, well actually, no, sorry, they added the garbage knockoff Mario Kart back into the game (and 7% of people beat all the races according to achievements. Turns out no one wanted the Kart racing back AGAIN). Except there are fewer races this time because Karts aren't Gundam and this is a Gundam game. What makes me so sad is that they added a really unique mechanic with stones and chassis to be able to mix an…

Out of all the Ty Games, This is hands down the worst one and not in a fun way, It steers so far away from the first two Games to the point where it doesn't feel like a Ty Game anymore making you question what was even going on during this Games Development, Its like they threw every idea they had into this Game even if it didn't really work out and just slapped Ty onto it just to round out a Trilogy, And upon doing so, Sort of left a small tarnished stain on the franchise as a whole. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this one at all costs and just play the first two Games of the Series, They are fantastic Platformers that deserve way more love. Only can really recommended this one if your just really really curious about it or yet again if your a Completionist just trying to 100% all the Ty Games out there, Even still, Getting a full 100% on this Game is a huge chore tho sooo if you are picking it up for that reason, Best of luck to ya, Your gonna need it to power through this Game heh heh. I might try and come back to this Game one day just to 100% it as well as Platinum it just for the fun of it and get another complete series 100% with all Achievements in my book, But …

A fine game, but very crash prone, very padded out and lacking in actual platforming. I think only fans of the series are going get the most out of this to be honest