Haiki (2021)
Application Systems Heidelberg, Richard Hörnig
Haiki is a diamond-hard platformer that rewards skilful play and punishes errors MERCILESSLY. Dive head-first into four worlds of colour-switching, laser-dodging, lightning-fast action. Features - Fast-paced, intuitive, limb-free platforming - 80 levels, from EASY to PURE HELL - A story that makes Shakespeare look like an idiot - Speedrun mode for the truly hardcore - Collectible hats for the truly awesome
About the story
Die, die and die again until your reflexes are sharp enough to face the headless Baron and get your body back. Or lose your head forever. Want to get ahead? Get a hat! Collect dapper, dashing and dandy hats on your journey up from the gutter. How do the hats help Haiki on his quest? They don't. AT ALL. They're just hats.
Platforms
Linux Mac PCGenres
Platform Puzzle StrategyThemes
Action Fantasy
Languages: Spanish (Spain) and 10 more
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| German |
Media
Critic Reviews
33bits
By Jose Antonio Calvo CenicerosDesperate and comforting. Screams of rage, and blows to the chest of satisfaction. The formula is well known, but little traveled even in the independent scene for obvious reasons. Richard Hörnig succeeds in creating his own Super Meat Boy, his bouncing head, in increasingly horrific and exhilarating levels. Will you endure as many and as many phases, with more as many, and as many, and as many, and as many, and as many, and as many deaths? You should, if pure platforming and extreme precision don't hold you back. Haiki is an eclogue about recovering humanity and overthrowing evil, in the form of a platformer that is as simple as possible to understand and control, and as hard as the twelve (thirteen) labors of Herakles not to complete, but to master. Not all of us will be prepared for this, but those who go deep into the proposal will find a millimetric, careful and comforting design. But... it won't be easy to get to the bottom.
