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2017 video game

A Hat in Time
A Hat in Time cover art.png
Developer(s) Gears for Breakfast
Publisher(s) Humble Parcel[a]
Director(s) Jonas Kaerlev
Producer(s) Simon Roth
Designer(s)
  • Jonas Kaerlev
  • Briar Sovereign
Artist(south)
  • Jenna Brownish
  • William T. Nicholls
  • Luigi Lucarelli
  • Sieger Vink
Author(southward)
  • Jonas Kaerlev
  • Briar Sovereign
Composer(due south) Pascal Michael Stiefel
Engine Unreal Engine iii[1]
Platform(s)
  • macOS
  • Microsoft Windows
  • PlayStation four
  • Xbox One
  • Nintendo Switch
Release macOS, Windows
  • WW: October 5, 2017
PlayStation 4
  • NA: December v, 2017
  • EU: December 6, 2017
Xbox Ane
  • WW: December 7, 2017
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: Oct 18, 2019
Genre(southward) Platform, action-adventure
Mode(southward) Single-player, multiplayer

A Chapeau in Time is a platform action-gamble game developed by Gears for Breakfast and published by Apprehensive Bundle.[2] The game was developed using Unreal Engine 3 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign, which doubled its fundraising goals within its first 2 days.[3] It is inspired by earlier 3D platformers such equally Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts.[iv] [5] [six] The game was cocky-published for Microsoft Windows and macOS in Oct 2017, and by Apprehensive Bundle for the PlayStation iv and Xbox One consoles two months after.[7] [8] A version for the Nintendo Switch was released in October 2019.[9]

Gameplay [edit]

A Hat in Fourth dimension is a platform action-run a risk game set in an open earth environment and played from a 3rd-person perspective. The gameplay way has been described by several editors to be similar to Nintendo 64 platformers such as Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie.[10] [eleven] The thespian travels between 4 open levels (along with 2 actress levels via downloadable content), which can exist freely explored without time limits. The thespian tin can collect various items, solve puzzles, and use an umbrella to combat enemies. The chief objective is to collect "Time Pieces", 56 of which tin exist found in the game, which unlock additional levels as more than are collected.[12] Later on being defeated, the enemies drib "Pons", currency that tin exist used to unlock additional challenges and purchase badges that increase Hat Kid'south abilities.[13] The player can collect Yarn Balls in each level, which can exist stitched into new hats to clothing. Each chapeau grants Hat Kid a unlike ability, such as 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 can be exchanged at a machine for bonus materials such as music remixes and additional cosmetics. Initial deportment taken before in the game have an consequence on subsequently levels, as the main grapheme revisits each area several times earlier the game is finished.[4]

Decease 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 get-go appears in the third chapter of the base game. The player takes on a challenge to earn a stamp upon completion, and the player can also earn two more stamps by completing two more challenges along with the main objective. If you fail three times you tin can actuate "Peace and Tranquility" which will either increase your time to do a task or make that job easier, but information technology will not always permit yous to actuate it for challenges with a limit of lives.

Vanessa'southward Curse [edit]

A new multiplayer mode called 'Vanessa'south Curse' was released on November 27, 2021. This mode features a contest within a big mansion betwixt the Snatcher and Vanessa, the characterless witch who kickoff appeared in the third chapter. All players volition first on the Snatcher's team, where they must collect a certain number of crowns subconscious throughout the mansion before time runs out. Eventually, Vanessa will curse one of the players. Whatever cursed players will immediately changes sides and can no longer collect crowns. While on Vanessa's 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, but they will impact both teams if they are even. The round ends if the required number of crowns are collected, if the timer runs out, or if all the players are cursed.[14]

Plot [edit]

A Hat in Time follows Chapeau Child, a piddling conflicting girl wearing a top hat trying to render to her domicile world via spaceship. While on her journey, she passes over a planet, and a member of the planet's Mafia comes to collect a toll for the Mafia Town government. When Chapeau Kid refuses to pay, the Mafia homo busts the spaceship door open, causing Chapeau Kid and all of her "Time Pieces", magical hourglasses that ability her ship, to fall to the planet below. Hat Kid lands in Mafia Boondocks and meets Mustache Girl, a local troublemaker who hates "bad guys". Mustache Girl agrees to look for the missing Time Pieces in exchange for Chapeau Child'due south help fighting the Mafia, and the two defeat the Mafia Boss. When Mustache Girl realizes the Time Pieces tin can rewind time, she wants to utilize them to become a time-traveling superhero, merely Hat Kid refuses, as she is aware that messing with time is dangerous. Angered past this refusal, Mustache Daughter declares the two enemies and sets off to find the Time Pieces on her own.

Chapeau Kid ventures across the planet looking for Time Pieces, encountering and befriending many foes that included ii rival bird directors DJ Grooves and the Usher competing for a moving picture award in a pic studio chosen Dead Bird Studio and a group of mountain villagers chosen Nomads infected by a unsafe plague, ultimately befriending them all. Lid Kid also outwits a malevolent spirit called the Snatcher into becoming her best friend after he temporarily stole her soul, tricked her into doing his muddy work in Subcon Forest, and attempted to murder Chapeau Child. The game'southward DLCs have Hat Kid searching for Time Pieces while working in an bounding main liner called the Arctic Prowl owned past the Walrus Helm and under the employ of the Nyakuza crime dominate called the Empress in an underground metropolis called Nyakuza Metro, the latter catastrophe with Hat Kid being forced to abscond the metropolis after a bounty was placed on her head. Mustache Girl exploits Lid Kid's absence to interruption into her send and steals the collected Fourth dimension Pieces, using them to plough the planet into a fiery inferno where her word is law. Hat Kid confronts her, just Mustache Girl uses the Time Pieces to open a time rift and make herself all-powerful.

The enemies Hat Kid has fought come to her aid in battle, some sacrificing themselves so that Hat Kid can use their dropped Pons (the in game currency) to power herself upward. Hat Child finally defeats Mustache Girl and uses the Time Pieces to restore the planet to normal and revive all those who were lost. The actor can then cull whether Hat Kid should hand over a Fourth dimension Piece to Mustache Daughter (so she'll be able to protect herself from the Mafia) or not. Though her former foes are sad to see her leave, Chapeau Kid restores the Time Pieces to her vault and resumes her voyage habitation. In a post-credits scene, Hat Kid is shown sleeping in bed surrounded by toys resembling the other characters.[15] [16]

Development [edit]

The initial idea for A Hat in Fourth dimension was started by director Jonas Kærlev, who graduated with a Master'southward Degree in Information science at the Aalborg Academy in Denmark. He launched the projection 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 wait the Kickstarter success A Hat in Time eventually received. Kærlev thought that there would be piffling demand for the game due to Ass Kong 64'due south effects on the genre, which he perceived as overwhelming the player with besides much collecting.[17] Development for the game started in August 2012 and was planned for a Q2 2013 release but was significantly delayed. At the starting time of evolution, Kærlev was the sole developer of the game but over time the evolution grew into Gears for Breakfast, a team spanning four countries and entirely volunteer-based.[4] [17] Through the Kickstarter campaign the game surpassed the initial goal of $xxx,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 by Pascal Michael Stiefel, with several guest composers such as Grant Kirkhope contributing boosted tracks to the game.

A port of the game for Nintendo'south Wii U console was in the developer's minds ever since the Kickstarter'due south announcement, considering that the game is heavily inspired by Nintendo-published platformers, merely actual evolution did not materialize. Upon various requests for it to exist ported for the Nintendo Switch, Gears For Breakfast initially claimed on Twitter that such a port will not happen, which was met with mixed reactions.[twenty] [21] However, during Gamescom in August 2018, a Nintendo Switch port was confirmed and information technology was subsequently released on October 18, 2019.[22] [23] The two DLCs released for PC were also ported to the Switch version at a later engagement.

Downloadable content (DLC) [edit]

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

The start DLC, Seal the Deal, was released for the PC version on September thirteen, 2018, and was available at no charge for 24 hours subsequently its release. The DLC was later released alongside the game's Nintendo Switch launch on October 18, 2019.[23] It added the new Arctic Cruise affiliate, a new challenge mode known as "Death Wish", six additional Time Rift stages, besides equally new cosmetics and photo style filters. In addition, local splitscreen co-op was also added, featuring the new character Bow Kid.[25]

The second DLC, Nyakuza Metro + Online Party, was announced on April 25, 2019 and released on May 10 on PC. Information technology was released for the Nintendo Switch on November 21, 2019.[26] Its new, titular chapter is fix in a Japan-inspired underground city, where Chapeau Kid becomes a member of a cat-themed street gang. A baseball game bat weapon is introduced, as well as new badges, cosmetics, and stickers (which can exist used equally emotes, and used to decorate the player's weapon). A new online multiplayer fashion was also introduced, where groups of up to l players tin play in a single world at in one case. Online Political party is just available through Steam and was "1 of the first games to premiere" using Valve'due south Steam Networking API ii.0.[27] The DLC is bachelor at no accuse for those that had backed the game's Kickstarter campaign.[28] [29]

In Nov 2020, Gears for Breakfast announced on Twitter that both Seal the Deal and Nyakuza Metro would be released on PlayStation four and Xbox 1 in Q1 2021.[xxx] On March 31, 2021, both DLC packs were released on those platforms,[31] with support for threescore FPS when playing on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Serial 10/S using backwards compatibility.[32]

Reception [edit]

A Hat in Time received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, aside from the Xbox Ane version receiving "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[33]

Chris Carter from Destructoid gave the game an viii.v out of 10, calling it an "impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding it back".[47] PC Gamer 'southward Dominic Tarason rated the game 86/100 saying, "Some scuff-marks aside, A Hat in Time is a artistic, playful, and polished tribute to a genre that doesn't get nigh plenty beloved 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]

Two weeks afterward its release, A Hat in Time had sold 50,000 copies.[50] By July 2018, the game had sold over 500,000 copies.[51] Past December 2018, the game had sold over 1 million copies.[52]

Accolades [edit]

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

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