Tinboy Reviews

YOU CAN CHANGE ARROW TYPE BY USING THE '1', '2' and '3' keys! (and not the ones exclusively at the num pad) Hello! I decided to write this review to tell that you do not need to click on the knight to change arrow type. Yes, that's a way, but not the only one. I've seen this on 2 reviews just by doing a quick roll. So I'd like to defend this point because it would be some terrible design decision indeed. But I'm not criticizing the reviews too. Maybe controls were updated, I don't know!!! :D So, about the game in general, yeah, there are some bugs, physics are sometimes strange and the song can be annoying, but the concept is good and the levels are not easy. Unfortunately, I wish I could hit the up and down votes simultaneously.

It's okay. However, I have plenty of issues with this game, which is why I can't recommend it. There's three types of arrows you can fire. One is just a simple arrow, another one places a rope between you and the object that's been hit and the last one explodes. There's 60 levels to interact with objects to reach the exit. Some levels are ridiculously difficult, but they are mostly fine. Now, the problem I have with this game is the physics. They feel odd and make the controls feel awkward. Also, some levels felt overly precise, and some gave me had a feeling of "Was that the actual solution or did I cheese the level?" Another thing that really annoyed me is that you fire the arrows with the mouse, but since I have two monitors, the mouse kept leaving the window. Even worse, when I ran out of window, the arrows didn't fire properly. The game could have really benefited from locking the mouse. I mostly enjoyed playing this game, but I got bored quickly. It took me several breaks until I actually decided to finish the game. All in all, it feels too rough to recommend.

I've purchased this title during a sale back in 2015, but ever since that time, I haven't picked it up to give it a try, because there were some other priorities on my list. Nonetheless, I've seen the videos and pictures before installing it, and thought to myself that it seemed simple enough to be one of those casual games. Well, not exactly... First things first: Ok, so there's no story, but it's not that much of an issue. You just control this armored guy where the goal is to reach the end of the stage, while trying to collect three pieces of chips per level (just some other distraction that adds to each level's difficulty). The graphics are basic, but I'm rarely picky when it comes to this kind of aspect. As for the music and sound effects... After repeating a level for a few times, the first thing that I had in mind was: "Where the hell do I turn this damn thing off?". And guess what? You can't find that option on the menu, so I had to manually mute the game through the Windows' sound controls. As for the gameplay... Good Lord. The controls don't seem to be that much of an issue in the beginning, but the more you advance in the game, the more you can get to realize how screwed you actually are. In the first few levels, I bet that anyone can progress fairly well, but when you're getting closer to level 10, the learning curve, combined with this other aspect mentioned previously, suddenly steps on you without any mercy. You realize that collecting the damn chips isn't really important, otherwise you'll probably get yourself an injury for repetitive movements, besides a conventional headache. Concerning the puzzle elements, I think that some of them were really creative, while some other ones were simply annoying (especially because I had to deal with some glitches throughout the way). Seriously, when you realize that the game that you're playing is making you feel more stressed than satisfied, that's when there's obviously a problem. Another important thing that I can't let to mention: If you like to pick games to unlock all achievements, I honestly recommend you to look for another game. Well, I'm sure that you're gonna get most of them without too much of a problem, but the ones related to the chips are something that it's definitely not in my plans. Overall, if you like puzzle games and are tolerant with bad controls, this could be an option, otherwise, keep looking...

Brilliant little pixel-puzzle adventure game, playing as "Tinboy", who's made by some female scientist. Tinboy is armour-clad, have a bow and 3 different types of arrows, that (1) is arrows you can shoot into walls, to jump onto, to get higher up, (2) that come with a rope to swing from place to place, and (3) a bomb-arrow, that you can use to blow things or yourself in various directions. Underway you pick up something that look like flying bread toasters, 3 of them in each room, that I haven't tried to skip picking up, but I guess you'll have to do that, if you want to get from start to the exit through the door to next room and next quiz. There's 60 levels, with 3 quiz missions in each, so a total of 180 missions to get from start to finishing the game. Keeping this in mind, I don't recommend buying this, unless it on 80% sale, priced about 1$US, like it was when I bought it today. I kind of recommend it.

This is technically Pinocchio but metal version. Or maybe this is the real origin of Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz! After 10 completed levels + checked some later ones: I don't think I want to play more. It's not fun, it's annoying. And it's not hard, it's frustrating.

I might have been the first one to ever play this game. And all I can say is it was the best 65 cents I've ever spent. Sure, it's clunky, but it just came out and the game mechanics work, it's fun, and it's only 65 cents as of August 31st 2015. A fun little game and it's definitely worth a buy. The audio is a little messed up as of now but still-- 65 cents people. And it will most likely be patched in the future.

A puzzle platforming game that has a fair amount of challenge and a total of 60 levels! For $1 this is a good amount of content for a puzzle game when you compare it to something like Portal honestly. It introduces new mechanics to make you re-think your stategy for the puzzles. Every level has 3 objects to collect if your a completionist. Rating: 8/10

It's an ok flash game with weird concept and physics. I guess one could buy when on sale and there's nothing else to play. By the way, as others have pointed out, clicking on the robot to change weapons was a bad design decision.

This game is by no means BAD or anything, but I also can't really recommend it. The control scheme -- as many other reviewers have mentioned -- is just simply too clunky for the game to be much fun. What I mean is, mostly, it's hard to really classify this as a platformer (albeit a puzzle platformer, even) because everything is always interrupted a thousand times by clunkily shooting arrows. As others have mentioned (again), you have to click on the KNIGHT in order to change between shot types as well. For now I'm going to give this a "No".. but I really do think there's something good here as far as the concept and level design. If the controls were patched SOMEHOW I'd give the game another shot for sure.

This game might have the worst controls of any game on the steam store. It's impressive if you can get past the tutorial, because it's that unplayable. Good concept | Bad controls