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Here Comes Niko! Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Here Comes Niko is the exact kind of game that speaks to people who feel intimidated by 60-hour adventures, multi-phase boss levels and narratives that spawn multiple games. Or for people who simply want to relax. Here Comes Niko is the “cozy 3D platformer” from Frog Vibes made with sleepy people in mind. This all sounds good on paper! A lot of games release every month, and designing a game specifically for players to relax is appealing amongst the constant stimuli of gaming. You play as Niko. They’ve recently left home due to a problem that seemed to involve misguided care and very little acceptance. Between worlds, Niko gets voicemails from their parents that show a home that may be loving on the surface but lacking in understanding. It starts the process of worldbuilding that initially caught my interest. Now, they need to start anew with a brand new job as a professional friend. How sweet is that? Frankly, those few sentences cover the main chunk of the narrative. It’s simplistic and follows a lot of the plot points you’d expect. I won’t spoil the ending, but it very neatly wraps up the story.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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The marketing of this game was very specific, but it works. I’m constantly tired and looking for something to do after work that lets me relax without being too mindless. Here Comes Niko did that for me. When I l opened the game and played my first 90 minutes, my reaction was mostly positive. There were a few points that bothered me but at the time they felt inconsequential in the grand scheme of it all. This is a 3D platformer with 2D character models. The goal is to traverse the levels, gather coins for the train, help some people and move on. Each level has minigames that help you get the coins you need, and the worlds are full of people to talk to. As for the minigames, a few repeat in each world, which helps keep the game understandable. Even the newly introduced games are easy to follow. Here Comes Niko has a full world, literally. Every level is so packed with characters and distinct areas and people to talk to and games to play. Unfortunately, gameplay in Here Comes Niko, while fun, is not the most functional. The unique art style makes for confusing depth perception and a jump that feels floaty and disconnected.

How to be a professional friend.

And this is a platformer, through and through! At the very least, I want the main mechanic to feel solid and not like guesswork. I do not enjoy when the challenge in a game comes from figuring out how to cheese the weird mechanics and not from level design itself. At least the game gives you a Tamagotchi look-alike to take care of when you need a short break from it all. The strongest point of the game is its visual style. All of the animal characters that inhibit the world are cute with a slight edge to them. After a few levels, the models started to merge together, but that doesn’t take away from its individuality. That said, Here Comes Niko falls into an issue a lot of “wholesome” games have. It’s cute, the art style and dosing effects feel like a nostalgic throwback and the message is simple but clear. It’s all very easy to consume and feel comfortable with, but I couldn’t shake a feeling of emptiness while playing it. Characters recite simple one-liner jokes with thin meme references, and the world’s background is oddly simplistic without meaning. Time is this game’s worst enemy. It truly does not fare well for long play periods.F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch PS5

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Maybe that’s the point, though. Maybe it really is just meant to be the game you pick up for a quick hour of fun before going to bed or getting back to the real world. That may bother some. For me, that realization shifted my perspective and shifted how I truly feel about games such as this. It’s marketed as an easy game for tired people, and it works as that. It doesn’t have complex mechanics or deep world-building. Here Comes Niko provides you with just enough to enjoy the time you have with it and move on. Here Comes Niko! made me question why I play games. That’s not a knock against it, either. It bills itself as a laid-back platformer; a “game for tired people.” I’m tired pretty much constantly, but I really don’t know what it means by that. The concept is clear, however. Here Comes Niko! is a platformer where you just soak it in. You do the same thing you do in any platformer — collect stuff, talk to people, collect more stuff — but there’s no real risk of failure. You can bounce, swim, jump from high places and survive; just do your thing. If you’re like me, you can’t help but ask, “What’s the point?” What’s the point of any game?

Travel tips.

The point is in the description: it’s just for fun. A platformer to relax with. I’m not sure I can do that, but I’m willing to try. The plot of the game involves Niko, who just moved away from home due to some family issues. They’re attempting to land a job as a “professional friend,” and have to pass a series of challenges before their application will be accepted. Sort of. The actual point of the game is to make people happy so they’ll give you tokens for the train. Not really for the train, but to move things out of the way of the train. Which is done through tokens. I’m getting off message here. I’d call it a joy-maker, but it’s really more akin to Banjo-Kazooie. People have repeating problems from stage to stage, and you have to help them with things like planting flowers and catching fish. I never really felt a connection with any of them because their problems are so video game-y. Well, I suppose I connect with the people you trade cassette tapes to, but that’s only because they’re so cute! The art style in general is adorable. Easily my favorite part of the game. Almost everyone you interact with is some form of critter, which is good because humans suck.Escape Dungeon

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Their designs are vibrant and distinct. Everything has a cheerful, poppy style to it. It suits the game well, helping bring out its relaxed demeanor. The world design is a bit less exciting. You hop along a collection of islands, each with its own theme. The first few look like they could have been cobbled together through borrowed assets, though the later ones, especially the towering Japanese onsen, are a little more delightful. Overall, it’s nothing offensive, the environments just don’t pop nearly as well as the characters. All the characters, yourself included, are completely 2D against the 3D backdrops. This works better than you’d expect, but still causes additional problems when it comes to depth perception. An image on your screen can make it difficult enough to discern distance, but when the characters are all flat, it becomes near impossible. Largely, the game is forgiving enough that isn’t an issue, but on some of the volleyball mini-games, it can be extremely frustrating as you try to position Niko under the ball. The biggest problems I ran into came down to polish. Similar to the theme of the game, a lot of things seem lackadaisical in Here Comes Niko!’s design.

My boss is a frog?!

Some of the challenges can be bypassed by the game’s movement system. Others require you to take advantage of its eccentricities to reach higher areas. The environments themselves have some oddities and can feel a bit thrown together. Tokens are collected to advance — the primary MacGuffin — but on some levels, I could grab more than the signboard that tracks your progress said I could. It eventually evened out as more quests became available, but at the end of the game, I still had 9/10 cassette on one level and 11/10 on the other. Not the end of the world, but a little awkward. There’s also a virtual pet that you can bring up by sitting on a bench that… complains. It’s cute, but there’s no real risk of it dying and it doesn’t tie into the main game, so it feels a little fluffy. I guess it helps with the laid-back aesthetic, but the last thing I want when I’m trying to relax is something reminding me of my responsibilities. You can ignore it, however, which I eventually did. I ran into further bugs throughout my playthrough. The game’s developer, Frog Vibes, seems to be hard at work squashing any remaining glitches for release, but I hit quite a number of them in the pre-release build.

I don’t think any of them are so bad that they can’t be addressed, but along with quirks in its aesthetic and gameplay, it gives Here Comes Niko! a rather rough feeling. I get that the development mindset was to create a game that wasn’t supposed to be taken seriously, but that begins to feel like an excuse. There’s a subplot to the game where Niko deals with the fallout of running away from their family, but it’s all flavor and no substance. Niko’s starting their new life on their own and what’s past is past. It never creeps into the ongoing narrative and seems to have little purpose. It certainly doesn’t get resolved, so while it can be relatable, its inclusion seems almost like it’s trying to appear deeper than it is. Likewise, the dialogue is pretty flat. It’s quirky in that casually irreverent kind of way, but it doesn’t get put to much use. None of the characters are terribly well developed in a way that makes you want to get to know them better. They don’t amount to much. Some introduce their backstory as you play their quests, but they, too, ring hollow. You can introduce same-sex couples all you want, but they’re not very impactful when they’re just random people asking for abstract favors.

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Worse yet, they’re usually the same favors over and over again.There’s not really a good feeling of progress, especially since outside of a single minigame found in each of the levels, there is no challenge to any platforming. The story is too vague, and the final level’s “finale” is incredibly underwhelming. I’m not even sure you CAN fail if you try. It could also use some quality-of-life improvements. You can end dialogue with NPCs prematurely if you want. But if you need to know the last thing they said, you can neither fast-forward nor skip through their dialogue. You gotta wait for them to finish. One thing that is SO CLOSE to being a serious highlight is your ability to converse with a specific NPC that’ll always give you hints if you need them if you’re having a hard time figuring out what task needs doing next. But the NPC will only give the same hint until you finish that task. Which means, if you can’t figure out that task and want to try a different one, well then, sucks to be you! The replay value also is less than stellar. After you leave a level for the first time, you can revisit it and you’ll have all the the content in that now available to you. But since the content is so similar.Orc Massage

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