Tomba! does not skimp on colour which of course means it fits in perfectly with PS1’s library, but it also looks great on Vita, particularly popping on the OLED screen. I think it’s also helped by its 2.5D design which allows both foreground and background elements to mix seamlessly together and the fact they’re interjected with isometric village exploration sections (like something from any 32 bit JRPG) just adds to the brilliant variety.Ĭharacter design is also on point – Tomba himself is a memorable protagonist with his bright pink hair and amusing idle animation where he sits cross legged on the floor and looks grumpy because he’s no longer bounding around the environments. Part of this is due to the sheer vibrancy of design here – every area you visit is bursting with its own character whether it be the sweeping green hills and red roofed houses of the starting towns to the trailing gusts of wind and nailed-down houses of Phoenix Mountain. Thanks to some smart visual design choices when it was first developed, Tomba! has stood the test of time graphically and looks great on Vita’s screen. The actual plot is nothing special – a means to an end to get you out into the world, but there’s lots of character interaction and zany events happening along the way to make this a PS1 platformer you’ll remember long after you first play it.
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The game is absolutely chock full of quirky characters in every location you visit and its lively design and irreverent humour makes it a joy to uncover every windy mountain, autumnal forest and haunted mansion just to see what new bizarre creature you’ll interact with next. Guided by a pair of wise old men (one a hundred years old, the other a thousand!), Tomba ventures around various locations and encounters native species like a village full of dwarves who have had their fellow townsfolk kidnapped by the Koma pigs, or a town with giant-hat wearing mice who have been cursed by the pigs and whose native water source is actually wine. Tomba! follows the journey of a young pink-haired feral boy named Tomba (or Tombi if you grew up in Europe like me) who attempts to recover his grandfather’s bracelet from a group of seven evil pigs who have caused havoc in his native land.
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