Krome Studios Launches Kickstarter For A Switch Version Of TY The Tasmanian Tiger

Hopefully this kickstarter goes well. The TY games were fun hidden gems on 6th gen consoles. I would definitely buy the first TY game again on Switch.

This was a bit of a sleeper hit for me as a kid, I remember watching a review of the game on X Play. I would welcome a remaster for the Switch for sure.

its already like half way through its goal, this is most wanted that's for sure

If the Steam releases didn't already exist, this is a franchise I would've never expected to return.

I actually worked on this game, and it's sequels, years ago at Krome studios. Would be quite the nostalgia trip to play them again.

I can't really understand the difference between the 20 and 25 dollar pledges though, they seem to be the same?

@BMOC limited time discount, i think.

Already $15,000? Didn’t know it had that many fans.

@N1ntendodo Oh, I see.

@brandonbwii It actually sold over a million copies. It was a big success for the company.

Ripper!

(Obligatory additional text because the systems in place at NL don't think my above statement is long enough for its own dedicated comment.)

@BMOC I get that but typically strong sales doesn’t always equal returning fans (I’m looking at Renegade Kid and Cult County). I also hear the other to are better so it’s even more baffling that people still want a remaster of the original. I wish them luck as we could use more quality 3D platformers on Switch.

Good platformer!! 50k should be a cinch! Would be a nice classic Edition to the Switch library!

I brought the game for the Gamecube almost a year back, and it's a pretty good time

Woah, this is actually really neat. I love 3D platformers, and I wish I could play more of them but my backlog is pretty big, but I do have a soft spot for PS2/Gamecube era games. I'm genuinely tempted to back this, for the sake of supporting something cool. I can't imagine this being a hard port, so maybe I'll bite the bullet and throw Krome Studios $20 of my money.

@brandonbwii Do you mean to say you heard the other two Ty games were better? I only really grew up with the original, but from my understanding, that's far from the truth; 2 and 3 apparently added a lot of non-platforming segments with tank controls and were much more of a drag. Personally, I think I'm glad this isn't a trilogy compilation like Spyro or Crash and is just the first and most respected game--a pretty solid sandbox platformer, as I remember it to be from my childhood.

@Not_Soos I don’t know as I’ve never played them. I just got that impression from some YouTuber LoL.

@brandonbwii Hey, me too, haha! I think AntDude and NitroRad both did videos on the whole trilogy, if I'm not mistaken. I do know from personal experience that the first game, at the very least, is good.

Never heard of this series. But either way I still don't trust kickstarters. I'd rather spend my money on a finished product that has been reviewed by regular folks and professional sites alike.

I have to really trust a series to pre order something. And kickstarter is like asking me to pre order something that is distinctly not even finished and looking at some stories, might never finish.

Why does NL support projects like this on Kickstarter but not allow actual Nintendo game requests like TTYD remake?

https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-let-s-show-nintendo-how-much-we-want-thousand-year-door-hd

Seems odd to me...

@datamonkey Because those are just the dreams of the fans. This is an actual potential release by an actual developer.

Wew, I played TY 1 for a while back in the day. Great fun, though I never really managed to finish it.

Didn't play much on PS2. From what I remember, it was fun, though.

Suld have been all 3 games... we never got the 3rd in the UK other than the crappy GBA port

@brandonbwii I didn't think the sequels were better. The first game was a pretty fun collectathon platformer. The second one changed things up to make it a mission based structure in a seamless overworld connected by driving segments. On paper, you'd think this would be an improvement since it opens up the opportunity for more exploration, but the design just feels so... lifeless. The levels in the original were a lot more inhabited and as a result they gave the levels a story and a purpose. 2 is lacking this, they're just random pitstops on the side of the road that are virtually desolate and as a result they don't really give you much purpose, you're there because the game told you to go here and no other reason. The second one did improve the Boomerang system so you could just buy them whenever you wanted and use them for optional collectibles, but other than that the second game actually felt like a step backwards.

I didn't play the third one, but it's a lot like the second one but with a darker atmosphere, so I'm not quite as interested.

@Bolt_Strike Yeah, now that I looked it up, the third one especially looks quite bad.

Thank you for posting this. I was thinking about this game the other day and I couldn't be more excited about this game, so this is the first Kickstarter I've pledged.

Throw the joy-cons like a boomerang? Those things are 100 dollaridoos a set, ya clown!

This is one of those games I surprisingly liked a lot back when I played it on my friend's PS2 back in the day, so I definitely think I'll be grabbing it on Switch.

I played the first one countless hours back in the day... never owned 2 or 3. This is wonderful news for me

Not too interested in a digital only port. Rather have the physical originals on GameCube. I bought Ty 2 recently but need to add the first game still.

Why is there a Kickstarter for a port of an already remastered game? This seems a bit much.