Tokyo 42

very good innit

its good

Beautiful game with somewhat lackluster combat and stealth.

I actually really enjoyed the switching camera forcing me to develop spatial awareness of all enemies and possible paths.

Is good

I had the privilege of meeting one of the designers of this game many years ago—what feels like light years ago, in a place in my mind where memories of my past self reside. Looking back, I was likely an odd character in the tapestry of these brilliant, creative people whose talents seem almost angelic in nature. I hope it’s not offensive to say, but I consider myself incredibly privileged to have had that experience.

Not because I am anyone of great importance, but because getting a glimpse into the minds of such talented artists left an impression that has stayed with me my entire life. As I’ve grown older and (hopefully) more mature, I look back on that time with a deep sense of gratitude.

There’s a bond—an unspoken connection—between creators and those who are fortunate enough to witness their work firsthand. I’ve never considered myself particularly worthy or honorable, but beneath it all, I felt their generosity of spirit.

Now, to experience this game, to see how their journey as artists has unfolded across space and time, is simply incredible. It evokes a profound feeling—a kind of awe—that lingers long after the screen fades.

Good game

Greatest vibes, music, art. That is the first game, where architecture stood out to me and indeed, one of the creators is an architect. I like the geometricality of it so much, that I'm going to leave positive review, but the gameplay is not good.
One of the main ideas, as I understand, is to make a puzzle out of perspective. Isometric projection, fixed view angles obfuscate a lot of information, and transversing/shooting requires understanding of environment's geometry, so the act of viewing an environment from multiple fixed angles and choosing one of them as the main for each action event becomes a challenge. Considering how amazing and diverse the geometry and design of the environment is, at first I was really excited about this novel gameplay. I would even call it different genre. But unfortunately this puzzly gameplay clashes with the most prominent part of the game - pretty standart bullet hell shooter with cover. You can find in the comments many examples of why this mix feels extremely frustrating and unfair. Besides the shooter, there's a lot of exploration and secret-hunting, and these parts of my playthrough I definitely found very enjoyable! It's such a shame that 50-70% of the time is spent in shooter mode. For my skill level, I found that the most effective tactic is to shoot as many bullets as possible in the general direction of the enemy, while concentrating on dodging and praying. In tough fights it works with probability of 10%, so you just replay every fight 10 times. If doesn't work - throw 100 grenades. Other approaches either less effective, or much slower and bore me to death.
I wonder if it is feasible to get rid of bullet hell aspect completely, make impact of the shots instanteneous, after the warning and add some gadgets for transversal through walls/ceilings, mind posession, etc; making it much more of a tactical experience, which more leans into unique geometric puzzle. But you need a really good game designer who can spend all of their time on solving this.

Great game, original stuff, looking great, great flow and all but why the heck CANT A BIKE GO BACKWARDS ?? If anyone knows if its possible please tell me :D that thing is a nightmare to ride without ability to go reverse...

A cornucopia like treasure hunt that should undoubtedly be picked up on sale.
8/10

-wheres sound track to buy?
-why cant katana deflect slow bullets?

Can't play this game as use RUN RIGHT mouse button control and can't change this so i can't play it.
Ther is some options to define keys when run game but neve works and ther is another in game

maybe one day when buy a gamepad now reviwes is 0

The entire "theme" of the game is the fact that it looks cool and is isometric. It's a stealth/action game that it's at the best point when you are actually doing stealth. The moment bullets start flying you have to fight both the AI moving around, shooting you, shooting where you will be when their bullet hits, and taking cover from your shots while you fight the controls and the camera to be able to see the enemies to begin with.

The game meets a difficulty spike when you fight a mecha and it only keeps going up. If you beat the game you will know what i mean when i say the fight against Wing made me just fucking quit the game. The bullshit went straight up into space against a character that takes several shots to kill (you only take one) while he's jumping around quickly in an unpredictable manner in an area full of obstacles and cover at the same time he's firing a machine gun (that, let me remind you, fires not where you are but also in an interception if you're moving forcing you to dodge) AND spams you with grenades in a nonstop manner.

The game looks amazing, the character portraits are ugly, the story wasn't the worst in the world but it was simple and to the point, but the AI is designed to be pure bullshit, Wing's fight was just peak bullshit and it wasn't even the last mission.

Your eyes are either looking where you are, where you're moving, and where the bullets coming your way are so that you can avoid them WHILE you avoid falling into the void and dying, OR they are looking at the enemies, where they are going, and if you have a clear shot at them. Enemy AI does NOT have this problem and even if they are the regular ones that take 1 shot to kill, let me remind you you are alone fighting several of them at the same time.

A spoonful of perspective helps the medicine go down

I know a song will move the job along =^)

Okay, this game is cool, it has a cool idea, but I frequently get killed by bullets that fire after I kill a guy. It's happened about 3 or 4 times in my first hour of the game.

So I'll be honest I originally found out about the game because Go Go Go came across my spotify and was a total ear-worm

I'm just over four hours in and so far delighted by the amount of content. The atmosphere in the soundtrack is carried over into the gameplay. It's floaty and dreamlike and a little jank but in a totally charming kind of way

Lovely aesthetic and chill casual gameplay like old flash games for a modern era - do give it some love it deserves it

Underrated game! Cool mechanics make you feel powerful without making the game too easy. The exploration is fun, and there are usually a couple of ways to approach each mission. A good game for completionists, as there are achievements for completing missions with stealth, melee kills only, etc.

Tokyo 42 has a nice sheen but is a lot more janky than you'd hope, with a very lacklustre method of getting dialogue across, silent text boxes that make this feel like a Flash game with the controls following suit. Direction being maintained as you turn the camera is incredibly annoying and this physics system is not at all made for platforming. Environments aren't especially readable, the soundtrack is oddly mismatching and everything just seems to fall short and a bit too unfriendly to the player.

Perhaps some of these issues will go away with some more familiarisation, but you can't refund a product after two hours of playtime and I definitely don't see its worth at the moment, even having got it hugely marked down on sale.

Possibly the most bug ridden game I've played in recent years. There's a great - if finicky - game underneath, but it's basically unplayable due to all the bugs. The depth of field will randomly miss align, blurring your main character. There's a giant onscreen 'tip' section that can't be hidden that frequently hides the action, causing your death. The gamepad support glitches out randomly. The game simply crashes occasionally when your character dies. It's deeply frustrating, as the art style is great, and there's an addictive Hotline Miami style gameplay loop. But it's a game requiring stability and fine grained control, and it has neither. Devs seem uninterested in fixing also - which is frankly gross, given the game is still on sale and got a lot of hype on release. I'd personally be ashamed to have something straight up broken with my name on it, especially as it's obviously from a tiny dev team.

seems really fun but i am unable to change my controls, so i cant throw grenades due to my middle mouse being broken. sad.

I remember this game being a lot of fun, but the multiplayer does not appear to be working. The server list is completely empty, and Steam friends are unable to see or join my online games. Friends playing through Amazon games are also not able to see or join servers.

Do not buy if you wanted to play this game with friends.