Mika and the Witch’s Mountain (opens in new tab) has an instantly arresting look, an aesthetic and premise virtually lab-grown to instantly pierce your common millennial’s lizard mind nostalgia cortex. It is Wind Waker and Kiki’s Supply Service (opens in new tab), collectively a minimum of to soften your coronary heart in 3D platformer kind.
You’re taking the position of a little bit chibi Witch named Mika who’s come to a faraway island to apprentice with an elder witch. That elder witch seems to be type of a jerk, and he or she kicks you all the best way again down the mountain, your wax-on, wax-off witch coaching demanding that you simply clamber again on as much as the highest.
To that finish, Mika takes on a supply job, hoping to earn sufficient scratch to purchase progressively higher brooms and fly nearer to the highest of the mountain. The sport’s demo solely accommodates a quick quest sequence, and locks you right into a small portion of the island, however I can already see how developer Abraham Cozar may create a diversified, thrilling platformer out of those mechanics.
One of many demo deliveries has you are taking a fisherman his lunch, however in case you fall within the water in your manner, it’s going to get all soggy and you will fail the supply! Mika has to fly from the dock and make a precision touchdown on the fisherman’s boat, a reasonably enjoyable and thrilling platforming problem that makes intelligent use of Mika’s distinctive flying broomstick mechanic.
The following supply calls for you scoop some fish out of the ocean and ship them to a kindly outdated man for his aquarium, flying low over the water to catch your prize earlier than flying again to the consumer. After which the demo ends—fairly gentle, nevertheless it does an excellent job of pitching the complete recreation. Mika’s additionally already runs decently nicely on Steam Deck—its animated cutscenes do not work but on the platform, however the recreation itself can hold a steady 30 and even 40fps. With the sport additionally focusing on a Swap launch, Deck playable standing appears a fairly certain guess.
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is presently dwell on Kickstarter (opens in new tab) the place it has blown previous its preliminary $40,000 aim with over $225,000 on the time of writing—Cozar already has to give you some new stretch targets! In any other case, you may wishlist Mika and the Witch’s Mountain on Steam (opens in new tab), in addition to try its demo your self beginning tomorrow with the Steam Subsequent Fest.