A Hat In Time For PC, XBOX ONE, & PS4

A Hat In Time was made the company Gears for Breakfast. Started out as a Kickstarter on May 29, 2013 and funded on June 28, 2013 with $296,360 and 9,169 Backer for Kickstarter alone (many more backers backed up this game via the A Hat In Time official website. I was one of them). After 4 years of hard work, it was released for PC on Oct. 5th, 2017 and then even later with the help of Humble Bundle and Hardsuit Labs released on PS4 on Dec. 5th and XBOX ONE on Dec. 6th, 2017.

FUN: This cute and colorful platformer is enjoyable for pretty much everyone. Kids, Adults, Completists, Casual, etc. You name it, they will most likely enjoy it. You play as Hat Kid, apparently an alien who appears as a young girl. Hat Kid's personality just makes this game even more enjoyable due to pure cuteness. As well as the voice acting in this game makes a lot of the characters quite enjoyable to listen. The Gameplay is quite smooth with a few times where certain timed jumps or camera angles that can get messy, but never to the point of anger or raging. Every world is open so players can easily just jump, climb, & dive everywhere just to do so. If you like Banjo-Kazooie, you will love this. Even Grant Krikhope help parts of the game as well. FUN - 2.

REPLAY: Yes... and no... This game is replayable due to the fact of it being so enjoyable that you want to play again. I have this game for both PC and XBOX ONE and I 100% both versions. However, once you 100% the game... you don't really have anything else you can do... REPLAY - 1.

STORY: The story is pretty short. Hat Kid is on her spaceship heading home. However, one day... the Mafia from a passing planet, broke open the window door of the ship releasing all of the ship's Time Pieces fuel. Now it's Hat Kid's job to get back all 40 Time Pieces to get home. STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This game does have quite a bit of Banjo-Kazooie & Super Mario 64 feel to it, but all new. Badges and Hats are your powers. You change between badges and hats when needed. Besides the Relics & Yarnballs, everything else respawns so you can grind for money in the game. The Hub world is kind of like Super Mario 64 & Banjo-Kazooie but the was to be expected. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 1.5.

DIFFICULTY: This game is for both Casual and Hard Core players. The game has balanced gameplay so Casuals won't have problems but still have a challenge for the platforming & at the bosses. While Hard Core players can use a certain badge that only gives you 1-Hit Point aka 1 Hit and you die. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 8.5.

So there you have it. My review for A Hat In Time. As usual, I kept my opinion out of my reviews, even if I was a backer and I have my name in the credits. Until next time, this has been Nostalgic Gamer 89.