Hatup Review (PlayStation 5)
This Hatup Review is us taking on the role of a little purple humanoid as I try and navigate tricky puzzle stages that change depending on whether I am wearing a fez-style hat or not! Hatup is a precision platformer with single-screen stages where the objective is to avoid spikes and other traps while collecting keys and toggling platforms on and off.
Hatup Review Pros:
- Nice graphics with a mix of cartoon and pixel art.
- 169.6MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Precision platformer gameplay.
- Tutorial signs in the level.
- Two difficulties – Normal and hard.
- 30 levels.
- The gimmick is the Fez hat as when you are wearing it certain blocks appear and when you are not wearing it other blocks show up.
- The goal of the game is to get to the exit wearing your hat.
- Tight controls.
- Easy trophies.
Hatup Review Cons:
- No replay value.
- Difficulty choices don’t really change anything.
- The music is rather one note.
- Cannot skip any levels you get stuck on.
- Doesn’t have any scoring or timed options.
- No game settings.
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Hatup:
Developer: Naoka Games
Publisher: Eastasiasoft
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- Graphics - 7/107/10
- Music - 5/105/10
- Accessibility - 7/107/10
- Length - 6/106/10
- Fun Factor - 7/107/10
Summary
You will play this game once and that’s about it, it doesn’t offer any big challenges and is a one-and-done game. It plays fine as it goes for a precision platformer but it never really pushes the envelope and instead just has a load of levels where you ha e to get to the end of the level to trigger something to just then go back to the start to do one thing differently. I never had fun but I never hated it, luckily the trophies were easy to nab so I had something to show for it otherwise it felt like a mobile game that got big.
