Skatemasta Tcheco Reviews

First of all, this is a really cool game. So why the negative review? Because it needs some kind of accessibility options. If you aren't a "super platformer" good luck getting through this one...

Not good. First level is okay than it instantly spikes the difficulty to 100. Cheap damage, tiny platforms, and speacial cannon ball move that you perfome by double taping jump helps you fly right into the pit or an enemy projectile. Imagine playing Adventure Island 1 but never able to ditch the skate.

This game it's a kind rock hard, wide open for everyone! Good worth it!

Skatemasta Tcheco is an autoscroller platformer, and a love letter to those 8bit stages where you had a skate and loved/hated to play, refined and distilled into 8 (+1secret) big stages. It’s the creation of the sole developer of the first game, Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio, Marcelo Barbosa. Graphics and Atmosphere: Just like the first, 8-bits pixel art, it does not limit itself completely to , so we get gradients, a good amount of parallax, and beautiful backdrops, except for the bosses, who get a single color background. Music and sounds: gorgeous chiptune music, fits perfectly the mood and the throwback premise. Credited to Oskar Hanberg, same as the first game, but I couldn’t find the music anywhere, youtube, bandcamp, or anywhere else. The sound effects are an improvement on the first game. In the sense that they are at a more adequate volume now, considering we can’t separate it from the music, and the death sound no longer kill us each time we hear it. Story and Setting: There is no story, basically. The setting is Brazil, with numerous references, jokes and memes that will go over non-brazilians, and of a certain age at that. But you don’t really need those to appreciate the setting and the most important: the gameplay. Options: Much better than the first game. Meaning we even have options this time around. It has still some ways to go, we still have music and sfx as a single volume adjust, and few graphic options. Language still needs to be changed thru steam, and there are no control options. Gameplay and Controls: It is an 8bit platformer, so you know what to expect. You move around and jump. You attack enemies and get money to get points. Fight a boss at the end. You have a high score in your menu, and it also serves to unlock an extra stage. You have 8 stages, all unlocked from the start, and can choose the order in which you can play them. They have a difficulty meter, shown as stars, and I’d say they are mostly spot-on. It might seem too few stages, but they are quite long, and each have a unique boss at the end. Also, the difficulty will have you retry most stages multiple times until you beat it. One downside is that after you beat the stage, you can’t go back to it, unless you start a new game. It has a save system, but only one slot. Throughout the stage you’ll find money. This is your score, and is used to save the game. After each stage you have the chance to save for increasing amounts of money, it does not matter which stage you picked, just how many are completed. This time around Tcheco have the Skate for the whole game, so his gameplay is auto scrolling. The stage auto scrolls, but also Tcheco. He moves at the same speed as the stage when the dpad is not pressed, even in platforms, which can throw some people off. It also compounds on a “problem” I’ll explain in a bit. You start the game with 8 Hearts, and each Heart can take 2 hits, so 16 hits to die. Falling down a bottomless pit also only hit you for ½ a heart, so it’s very forgiving. Problem is, you don’t fully heal after a stage is completed, you heal an amount, say 5 hits or 2 and ½ hearts. You can input a secret code to start your saved file from full, thou. In the first game you had no way to attack of your own, but now’s different. Tcheco can jump in the enemies’ head to kill them, or make use of his 2 attacks: A forward dash, that can go back if you hold left, and a downwards dash with another button. Both can only be used in the air. And in this move lies most of the negative opinions you’ll find for this game. Since the button to jump and the forward dash are the same, and you have falling platforms, you will at times think you’ll jump, but you dash right over a bottomless pit. Then you get desperate because you fell, dash as soon as you spawn in the air and fall again. You have to be very deliberate while playing this game. In later stages the platforms might be very small, disappear after you touch them, or you’ll have to wait a bit for them to appear. I say, this game is called Skatemasta, not Skatechump. If you die, go again. It’s forgiving in its system to be able to be challenging in the execution of its level design. Those who understand this will surely appreciate their short time with it. Also, in each stage you’ll find letters. Collect all of them and a character from other brazilian games will come help you with that stage’s boss. If it’s help at all, because sometimes their attacks either never hit the boss or make you miss your attack. Not that you’ll need the help, anyway. The bosses are varied and goofy, a good time. Completion, Extras and Achievements: It’s a very short game. In a couple hours you can finish it. You might want to keep playing, because there is an extra stage after the initial 8, that require you to amass a million points in total. And since you can’t go back to stages after you complete them, you might want to either reset, not save a couple stages, complete them in different orders, etc. It’s a clever system to make you come back to the game. Sadly, again, there are no Achievements. Conclusion: If you are not completely averse to the idea of an auto scroller platformer, play this game. It’s super cheap and worth the experience.

I really tried to like this. But you know what, I didn't. Simply because I hate autoscrollers so much. Is that the only reason? Nope. The worst thing is the dash attack which is being activated by pushing jump twice. Why didn't the devs put it onto another button? Due to a way too low sensitivity, you often make the dash without actually wanting to do it. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Next is how you are constantly moving. Which makes sense on a skateboard, I'll give them that, but on such narrow platforms - how could that be fun? In later stages, you encounter randomly appearing platforms but you can never be sure which triggers their appearance, often leading to unwanted deaths. Then, health pickups heal way too less. Saving costs money. You earn enough in a stage, but why isn't it free alltogether if you make the money anyways? Next is the unfair level design. Often deaths are unavoidable except if you replay them multiple times. Which is a hassle since the levels are way too long. Oh and don't bother collecting the letters. On most bosses, the called friends you can get by collecting all letters do absolutely nothing because 99% of their projectiles from above miss. I like the artstyle. But even 1,60 is simply asked too much.

Este é um dos melhores jogos indie brasileiros que já vi. Não apenas é replica perfeitamente a estética 16 bits se valendo até mesmo de filtros de tv de tubo para deixar os pixels mais gostosos, mas vai além e consegue se destacar em meio a tantos tributos à saudosística era retro com sua criatividade e estilos únicos que refletem perfeitamente o produto de múltiplas gerações da cultura brasileira entrando em contato com a nova cultura da internet. Quanto a gameplay em si, fica uma crítica: A ideia de reduzir os controles do jogo ao mínimo necessário (2 botões) pode ser um experimento/desafio interessante ao desenvolvedor, mas não acrescenta nenhum valor ao produto/obra de arte do ponto de vista do público. Muito pelo contrário, o que era pra ser minimalismo se torna simplismo e acaba em uma enorme disfuncionalidade que dificulta muito a já ardorosa tarefa de zerar o jogo. O design das fases consegue de fato, tirar o melhor suco possível das mecânicas do jogo. O side scrolling foi desenvolvido ao seu potencial máximo, o que acaba por unir essa experiência de maneira mais do que perfeita. Quanto a isto, me incomoda apenas alguns trechos específicos, em que a linearidade e exigência de perfeição de movimentos acabam por tirar um pouco do prazer da plataforma, uma vez que mais se parece uma fase impossivelmente-malfeita de Mario Maker em que o jogador não tem nenhuma liberdade para improvisar e deve seguir um caminho predefinido e maçante. O que predomina, no entanto, são longas sequências belamente calculadas, que dão espaço para o jogador expressar toda sua habilidade e maestria num verdadeiro espetáculo que lembra muito os melhores leveis de Super Mario, quase que como se feitos pelo próprio Miyamoto. 8.5/10, Mas poderia facilmente ser um 9/10 depois de um patch nos controles (e outros pequenos bugs relacionados a plataformas em movimento)

tho it's short it's lovely and pretty challenging and the game succeed to feel exactly like a famicom title, btw it has lots of replay value to it.

A very fun NES style arcade game, based on one of my favorite internet characters, Tcheco, It plays like a infinite-scrolling game and it's hella difficult. The gameplay seems simple at first but there are a lot of tricks you need to master to be able to navigate the stages and reach the bosses. I'm terrible at this type of game, but I couldn't stop giggling while doing so The humor can be appreciated by anyone, but Brazilians that watched the indie cartoon series will have a blast.

There's something catchy about games like this one: they're simple and fun, direct to the point. Plus this one is hilarious, with all those funny voices and characters that only the Tchecoverse could provide.

There's nothing too complicated to write or understand about Skatemasta Tcheco. It's simple, easy, and quick pick up and play auto-scrolling platforming that will test your reaction speed and muscle memory in the same way that the games that inspired it did. Bottom line: This is a game I'd have happily paid $8-10 for.