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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/30/2013
“Toki Tori” for Steam is an enhanced remake of an end-of-life Game Boy Color game of the same name, which means ‘Time Bird’ in Japanese. Of course, the title doesn’t really make sense, as the developer behind “Toki Tori,” the Netherlands-based Two Tribes, is about as non-Japanese as possible. “Toki Tori” is also the spiritual successor to an older, nearly-identical game called “Eggbert,” which was developed by some of the individuals who later went on to form Two Tribes and released on the obscure MSX computer platform.
My interest in “Toki Tori” dates back to the announcement of the WiiWare version, which I intended to buy based on the fact that I was starved for 2D platformers at the time. The plethora of other 2D platformers released by other Indie …
