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2017 video game

2017 video game

A Hat in Fourth dimension
A Hat in Time cover art.png
Developer(s) Gears for Breakfast
Publisher(s) Humble Package[a]
Director(south) Jonas Kaerlev
Producer(s) Simon Roth
Designer(s)
  • Jonas Kaerlev
  • Briar Sovereign
Artist(south)
  • Jenna Brown
  • William T. Nicholls
  • Luigi Lucarelli
  • Sieger Vink
Writer(s)
  • Jonas Kaerlev
  • Briar Sovereign
Composer(s) Pascal Michael Stiefel
Engine Unreal Engine 3[one]
Platform(s)
  • macOS
  • Microsoft Windows
  • PlayStation iv
  • Xbox One
  • Nintendo Switch
Release macOS, Windows
  • WW: October v, 2017
PlayStation 4
  • NA: Dec five, 2017
  • EU: December 6, 2017
Xbox One
  • WW: December seven, 2017
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: October xviii, 2019
Genre(s) Platform, action-adventure
Manner(s) Single-player, multiplayer

A Hat in Time is a platform action-adventure game developed past Gears for Breakfast and published by Humble Bundle.[2] The game was developed using Unreal Engine 3 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign, which doubled its fundraising goals within its first two days.[3] It is inspired by earlier 3D platformers such as Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts.[iv] [five] [6] The game was cocky-published for Microsoft Windows and macOS in October 2017, and by Humble Parcel for the PlayStation iv and Xbox One consoles two months later on.[vii] [8] A version for the Nintendo Switch was released in October 2019.[9]

Gameplay [edit]

A Chapeau in Fourth dimension is a platform action-adventure game prepare in an open globe surroundings and played from a third-person perspective. The gameplay style has been described by several editors to exist similar to Nintendo 64 platformers such as Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie.[10] [eleven] The player travels between four open levels (along with 2 extra levels via downloadable content), which can exist freely explored without time limits. The player tin collect various items, solve puzzles, and use an umbrella to gainsay enemies. The principal objective is to collect "Fourth dimension Pieces", 56 of which can be found in the game, which unlock boosted levels equally more are collected.[12] Afterward existence defeated, the enemies drop "Pons", currency that can be used to unlock boosted challenges and purchase badges that increase Hat Kid's abilities.[thirteen] The player tin collect Yarn Balls in each level, which can be stitched into new hats to wear. Each hat grants Hat Kid a different power, such every bit a faster sprint or brewing explosive potions. Other collectibles include "Relics", which can be used to unlock "Fourth dimension Rift" bonus levels, and "Rift Tokens", which tin be exchanged at a machine for bonus materials such as music remixes and boosted cosmetics. Initial actions taken earlier in the game take an effect on later on levels, as the master graphic symbol revisits each expanse several times earlier the game is finished.[4]

Death Wish [edit]

Decease Wish is a challenge mode that was released with the Seal the Deal downloadable content (DLC) pack in September 2018. This mode comprises various challenges that use already existing levels. The player interacts with Snatcher, a contract-obsessed ghost who first appears in the 3rd chapter of the base of operations game. The player takes on a challenge to earn a stamp upon completion, and the player can as well earn two more stamps by completing two more than challenges along with the main objective. If you fail iii times you tin can activate "Peace and Tranquility" which volition either increment your time to do a task or make that chore easier, but it volition not always allow yous to activate it for challenges with a limit of lives.

Vanessa'southward Curse [edit]

A new multiplayer mode called 'Vanessa'due south Curse' was released on November 27, 2021. This mode features a competition within a large mansion between the Snatcher and Vanessa, the featureless witch who get-go appeared in the third affiliate. All players will starting time on the Snatcher'due south team, where they must collect a certain number of crowns hidden throughout the mansion before time runs out. Eventually, Vanessa will curse ane of the players. Any cursed players volition immediately changes sides and can no longer collect crowns. While on Vanessa'due south team, the goal is to curse all the other players by touching them. The Snatcher and Vanessa will occasionally provide power-ups or make the mission easier for the players if their team is losing, just they will affect both teams if they are even. The circular ends if the required number of crowns are collected, if the timer runs out, or if all the players are cursed.[xiv]

Plot [edit]

A Hat in Time follows Hat Kid, a petty alien girl wearing a top chapeau trying to return to her domicile world via spaceship. While on her journeying, she passes over a planet, and a member of the planet'due south Mafia comes to collect a price for the Mafia Town authorities. When Chapeau Kid refuses to pay, the Mafia human being busts the spaceship door open up, causing Hat Kid and all of her "Fourth dimension Pieces", magical hourglasses that power her ship, to fall to the planet below. Chapeau Child lands in Mafia Boondocks and meets Mustache Girl, a local troublemaker who hates "bad guys". Mustache Girl agrees to expect for the missing Time Pieces in exchange for Lid Child's help fighting the Mafia, and the two defeat the Mafia Dominate. When Mustache Girl realizes the Time Pieces can rewind time, she wants to use them to become a time-traveling superhero, but Hat Child refuses, as she is aware that messing with time is dangerous. Angered by this refusal, Mustache Girl declares the two enemies and sets off to detect the Time Pieces on her ain.

Hat Kid ventures across the planet looking for Time Pieces, encountering and befriending many foes that included two rival bird directors DJ Grooves and the Conductor competing for a motion-picture show award in a moving picture studio called Expressionless Bird Studio and a group of mount villagers called Nomads infected by a dangerous plague, ultimately befriending them all. Lid Kid also outwits a malevolent spirit called the Snatcher into becoming her best friend subsequently he temporarily stole her soul, tricked her into doing his dirty piece of work in Subcon Forest, and attempted to murder Chapeau Kid. The game'southward DLCs have Hat Child searching for Time Pieces while working in an ocean liner chosen the Arctic Cruise owned by the Walrus Helm and under the employ of the Nyakuza crime dominate chosen the Empress in an hush-hush city called Nyakuza Metro, the latter ending with Lid Kid being forced to abscond the city later a bounty was placed on her caput. Mustache Daughter exploits Hat Child'south absence to break into her ship and steals the collected Time Pieces, using them to plough the planet into a peppery inferno where her word is law. Hat Kid confronts her, but Mustache Daughter uses the Time Pieces to open up a time rift and make herself all-powerful.

The enemies Chapeau Kid has fought come up to her assistance in battle, some sacrificing themselves so that Hat Kid tin can use their dropped Pons (the in game currency) to power herself up. Chapeau Kid finally defeats Mustache Daughter and uses the Time Pieces to restore the planet to normal and revive all those who were lost. The player tin and so choose whether Hat Kid should paw over a Fourth dimension Piece to Mustache Daughter (so she'll exist able to protect herself from the Mafia) or not. Though her former foes are sad to encounter her leave, Hat Kid restores the Fourth dimension Pieces to her vault and resumes her voyage habitation. In a post-credits scene, Hat Kid is shown sleeping in bed surrounded past toys resembling the other characters.[xv] [16]

Development [edit]

The initial idea for A Chapeau in Fourth dimension was started by director Jonas Kærlev, who graduated with a Chief'due south Degree in Information science at the Aalborg University in Denmark. He launched the project every bit an answer to his feeling of an ongoing shortage of 3D platformers, specifically developed by Nintendo. Some inspirations include Psychonauts, Spyro the Dragon and Banjo-Kazooie. In an interview with Polygon, Kærlev revealed that he and Gears for Breakfast initially did not await the Kickstarter success A Hat in Fourth dimension somewhen received. Kærlev thought that at that place would be niggling demand for the game due to Ass Kong 64'due south effects on the genre, which he perceived as overwhelming the thespian with likewise much collecting.[17] Development for the game started in Baronial 2012 and was planned for a Q2 2013 release but was significantly delayed. At the get-go of evolution, Kærlev was the sole developer of the game but over fourth dimension the development grew into Gears for Breakfast, a team spanning 4 countries and entirely volunteer-based.[four] [17] Through the Kickstarter campaign the game surpassed the initial goal of $30,000 with a final total of $296,360.[18] In July 2013, it was announced that the game had been greenlit for release via Steam.[19] The soundtrack was mostly composed past Pascal Michael Stiefel, with several guest composers such as Grant Kirkhope contributing additional tracks to the game.

A port of the game for Nintendo'south Wii U panel was in the programmer's minds always since the Kickstarter's declaration, considering that the game is heavily inspired past Nintendo-published platformers, but actual development did not materialize. Upon various requests for it to be ported for the Nintendo Switch, Gears For Breakfast initially claimed on Twitter that such a port will non happen, which was met with mixed reactions.[20] [21] However, during Gamescom in August 2018, a Nintendo Switch port was confirmed and it was later released on October 18, 2019.[22] [23] The two DLCs released for PC were also ported to the Switch version at a later date.

Downloadable content (DLC) [edit]

In March 2018, an update added mod support via Steam Workshop.[24]

The first DLC, Seal the Bargain, was released for the PC version on September xiii, 2018, and was available at no charge for 24 hours after its release. The DLC was later released alongside the game's Nintendo Switch launch on October 18, 2019.[23] It added the new Arctic Prowl chapter, a new challenge mode known as "Death Wish", six additional Time Rift stages, every bit well as new cosmetics and photo mode filters. In addition, local splitscreen co-op was also added, featuring the new character Bow Child.[25]

The second DLC, Nyakuza Metro + Online Party, was appear on April 25, 2019 and released on May 10 on PC. It was released for the Nintendo Switch on Nov 21, 2019.[26] Its new, titular affiliate is ready in a Japan-inspired underground urban center, where Hat Kid becomes a member of a cat-themed street gang. A baseball bat weapon is introduced, as well as new badges, cosmetics, and stickers (which can be used every bit emotes, and used to decorate the player's weapon). A new online multiplayer mode was also introduced, where groups of up to 50 players can play in a single world at once. Online Political party is just bachelor through Steam and was "i of the outset games to premiere" using Valve's Steam Networking API 2.0.[27] The DLC is bachelor at no charge for those that had backed the game'south Kickstarter campaign.[28] [29]

In November 2020, Gears for Breakfast appear on Twitter that both Seal the Bargain and Nyakuza Metro would be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Q1 2021.[thirty] On March 31, 2021, both DLC packs were released on those platforms,[31] with support for sixty FPS when playing on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S using backwards compatibility.[32]

Reception [edit]

A Chapeau in Time received "by and large favorable" reviews from critics, aside from the Xbox 1 version receiving "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[33]

Chris Carter from Destructoid gave the game an 8.5 out of 10, calling it an "impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding information technology dorsum".[47] PC Gamer 'due south Dominic Tarason rated the game 86/100 saying, "Some scuff-marks aside, A Hat in Time is a creative, playful, and polished tribute to a genre that doesn't get well-nigh enough love on PC."[48] Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of The Escapist was highly positive towards the game, deeming it his 2nd favorite game of 2017.[49]

Sales [edit]

Ii weeks afterwards its release, A Hat in Fourth dimension had sold 50,000 copies.[fifty] By July 2018, the game had sold over 500,000 copies.[51] Past December 2018, the game had sold over 1 meg copies.[52]

Accolades [edit]

The game was nominated for "All-time PC Game" in Destructoid 's Game of the Year Awards 2017,[53] for "All-time Platformer" in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards,[54] and for "Game, Original Family" at the National University of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards.[55] [56]

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