Mika and the Witch’s Mountain (opens in new tab) has an instantly arresting look, an aesthetic and premise virtually lab-grown to right away pierce your common millennial’s lizard mind nostalgia cortex. It is Wind Waker and Kiki’s Supply Service (opens in new tab), collectively no less than to soften your coronary heart in 3D platformer type.
You are taking the function 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 sort of a jerk, and he or she kicks you all the way in which 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 comprises a short 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 when you fall within the water in your method, it will 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 subsequent supply calls for you scoop some fish out of the ocean and ship them to a kindly previous man for his aquarium, flying low over the water to catch your prize earlier than flying again to the shopper. After which the demo ends—fairly gentle, nevertheless it does a very good job of pitching the total sport. Mika’s additionally already runs decently nicely on Steam Deck—its animated cutscenes do not work but on the platform, however the sport itself can preserve a secure 30 and even 40fps. With the sport additionally focusing on a Swap launch, Deck playable standing appears a reasonably certain wager.
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is presently reside on Kickstarter (opens in new tab) the place it has blown previous its preliminary $40,000 purpose with over $225,000 on the time of writing—Cozar already has to give you some new stretch targets! In any other case, you’ll be able to wishlist Mika and the Witch’s Mountain on Steam (opens in new tab), in addition to take a look at its demo your self beginning tomorrow with the Steam Subsequent Fest.
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