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Here’s a demo for Tako no Himitsu, a Game Boy Advance-style JRPG with music from Golden Sun’s composerAnd a lot of magic octopus pets
And a lot of magic octopus pets
Image credit:Deneos
Image credit:Deneos
I wouldn’t want it to get around these parts that I used to play handheld console games, in case my official RPS explosive collar detonates, but IlovedGolden Sun. It’s a beautiful lightshow, with its plush 2D sprites and spinning, zooming battle camera, and an entertaining though rarely challenging fantasy adventure. The first customer service call I ever made to Gamestation as a wee nipper was to ask if they had Golden Sun in stock, the second after reading about the game in a magazine. “We don’t have a release date yet,” the cruel voice on the other end of the line informed me, smashing my hopes and dreams. Tako No Himitsu doesn’t have a release date yet either, butit does have a demo on Steam, and I’ll be giving that a go over lunch, because the trailer looks tremendous.
Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets - Kickstarter Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets - Kickstarter Launch Trailer
The demo offers around an hour of mollusc-abetted Game Boy Advancing and look, you can even play it on a mocked-up in-game “Himitsu” handheld if you like to layer up your nostalgia like peanut butter and jelly. It’s almost enough to overpower my habitual reservations about writing up Kickstarter games - this one feels like a safer bet than most. Tako No Himitsu is a “spiritual successor” to developer Deneos’s 8-bit platforming homage Save Me Mr Tako (Steam page hyah), which was well-received back in 2021, and which appears to chronicle the aforesaid Human-Octopus War. I’m curious to know whether Deneos’s evident vast and unholy love of tentacles came before their evident vast and unholy love of retro consoles. I’m thankful that they’ve found a way to combine the two.
