Utomah

Grapple hook

This game was fantastic. It may be short but it will stay in my library and I will play some other time in the future for sure. The art was unique magnificent, there was no input delay, no bugs, smooth gameplay, little to no story but well established through visuals, great mechanics, fluid AF movement, beautiful sfx and music. What else would anyone want from a 10/10 2D side scrolling platformer? It was simply an amazing half an hour for me. This is what a AAA studio produces. I wish the dev team great success in their careers. Well done. It was one of the best student projects I have ever tried. It was definitely a lot better than many so called polished and finished products out there. I hope you guys have an incredible future in this industry, you deserve it. 100% recommended.

I expected another jaunt due to the similar atmosphere of my previous review, but I was pleasantly surprised to find such a fully featured boss rush of sorts. I'm sure that I had a slightly more difficult fight than intended due to the radial weapon aiming truncated to the keyboard's ortho-diagonals. Despite the healthy dose of difficulty I might have liked to see how far it could have been pushed by removing bullet time, but I would also inevitably have to break out my controller. The final boss succumbs to a class trope of sorts, that being the chase sequence finale, although it manages to distinguish itself by being an actual multi-stage fight in addition to your everyday rising lava conundrum. The game is a grapple focused Nerve mazer that basically averages out to more beater gameplay due to its length. In light of this I found it quite odd that dodging was taught in the second level, since it acts as more of a tool of traversal rather than combat. The speed and flow of movement is perfectly satisfying, and between grapples, levers, fast-falling, and wall-running, the levels leave a bit more to be desired, yet I consider level design to be the hardest subgroup by far nor hav…

Made for people who cut their teeth on unforgiving NES platformers. Hard boss fights are the focus

"Utomah" is a student project from DigiPen. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that's it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. Needless to say if an educational institution taught me incorrectly on purpose, I'd ask for my money back. is a very mediocre, short and unengaging 2D retro platformer with "Baby's First Wacom Tablet" hand drawn art, grappling mechanisms, and not much else of interest for serious PC gamers. We also have to question what value there is for gamers on Steam when institutions flood the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments... sure, it might make the students feel good about themselves, but this has no benefit for gamers who have to wade through this stuff to find professionally made 3D games. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try ch…

Its very cute in a way, i love the colour scheme and all the assets are adorable in my opinion, it was pretty easy (only died a few times) and I'd definitely recommend it for a quick play through :D