As Tomba, you must recover the bracelet while stopping the seven evil space pigs along the way (and all without the use of a single Angry Bird). The evil space porcine minions overrun the land, start mutating the trees into what looks like cotton candy and steal a bunch of gold and Tomba’s grandfather’s bracelet in the process. Tomba is a cavemanboy (caveboy?) who is out jumping on normal pigs one day when seven evil space pigs descend and start wreaking havoc. The story is as ludicrous as the garish color palette, but both serve to set up an almost Saturday morning cartoon-style feel to the game. Tomba! starts with a pair of colorful CG intro videos to introduce you to its world. This mix gives Tomba! a unique identity and a refreshing feel that I wish I could have experienced in 1998 when it came out. When did this RPG crash into my platformer? That is where Tomba! sits in the center of a genre element Venn diagram. It even has some dungeon sections with treasure chests and loot to find. Within minutes, you are taking on and completing quests, and finding hubs where the camera switches to an overhead view and filled with townspeople to talk to. Soon after starting though, you get a sense of what else the game consists of. At first glance it seems to be a 2.5D platformer in the vein of the aforementioned PS1 classics. It’s hard to pin down and clearly define due to the mixture of genre elements that make up the title. Tomba! is quite unlike any other game I’ve played, on the PS1 or otherwise. With the convenience and relatively low cost of PS1 games released on the PSN, the classics are easier than ever to get a hold of. Tomba! has that 2.5D feel, and is the type of older game I actively seek out. I loved Klonoa and Pandemonium on the PS1 and would gladly play any game similar to either of those. There’s a special place in my heart for 2.5D sidescrollers. Tomba! (exclamation point-induced excitement comes free with the title) is an interesting game because it comes tinted with a bit of nostalgia even though I’ve never played it. That makes it a little strange to go back and play PS1 games, because I usually either love them with their rose colored hue, or I just laugh at the handful of polygons, awful controls and long load times that plague many PS1 games. The PS1 remains my favorite system, and Pearl Jam, Bush, and Nirvana are still filling up my playlists. Nostalgia colors much of what I do in life. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.A colorful quirky platformer, Tomba! is certainly unique. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests.
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