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Embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a vast, vibrant world. Explore and uncover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spectacular boss battles. Experience a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem in TEVI, a bullet hell metroidvania!
TEVI is a metroidvania, anime and pixel graphics game
developed by CreSpirit, GemaYue and Ein Lee
and published by CreSpirit and Neverland Entertainment.
Released on November 29th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Ukrainian and Korean.
It has received 3,534 reviews of which 3,173 were positive and 361 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
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- OS *: windows 7 or above
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or above
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 615 Graphics or above
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 16:9 recommended (e.g. 720p , 1080p , 4K)
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It may be the single most expansive metroidvania game, the combat is fun and dynamic and the map is fun to explore.
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I agree with the top negative review that this game has too much long-walk backtracking and too many one-way doors that impede the backtracking. That said, this wasn't enough to tip me into negative; it was still a fun action game that heavily rewards exploration in a fairly satisfying way.
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As someone who played Rabi-Ribi first and approached TEVI with an open mind, my thoughts on the game overall are mixed. This review will cover both the positives and negatives I experienced playing this game. While there are aspects I didn’t enjoy, I still think the game is worth playing. I won’t spoil the story, but I will touch on some gameplay mechanics that some players might prefer to discover on their own. The bad 1) Sigils While the sigils should provide a lot more complexity and accommodate for more playstyles than the badges of Rabi-Ribi, I feel as if the sigil system suffers from the bloated amount of them. There are currently 257 sigils in the game at the time of writing, and while the large selection can be nice, a lot of the sigils begin to start blending together as many fill similar roles. Since the sigils themselves make up a large portion of the collectibles you find in the game, I find that more often than not the sigils feel unrewarding compared to progressive movement abilities and stat upgrades through potions. It also doesn’t help that there are limited sorting options to find them, and while you can filter them via sigils that impact melee or range for example, it would be better if you could also search them up by name or maybe even favorite them to easily remember which sigils you want in your build incase you make another loadout. 2) Story I will briefly go over the story, as I think the story is overall better than Rabi-Ribi, as it’s able to go into depth with the main cast of characters and tell a unique story with many twists and turns to keep it engaging. However I do think that the story suffers from bloated dialogue. A lot of the dialogue can take a long time to get through, and the game would definitely benefit from also doing the “show don’t tell” method of story telling to not have all these drawn out cutscenes that impact the overall pacing of the game. I do like how the game uses Tevi's Notebook to go into depth on certain topics, and I feel like it could have been cool to discover new enteries or pages through exploration to minimize the bloat in the main part of the story. 3) Bosses This section is a bit subjective, but in general I think the overall boss design takes a step back in this game compared to Rabi-Ribi. My main gripe with the bosses (at least on the higher difficulties like Expert/Infernal BBQ) is that the fights last a very long time. On average, most boss fights can be up to at least 7 minutes long due to how much health they are given, and while Rabi-Ribi has long boss fights as well, they are much more sparse with them. The game is overall easier comparatively to Rabi-Ribi due to crafting where you can hold multiple healing items to help in battle and the core expansion mechanic to negate certain bullets and make dodging easier and less punishing. And while I did both of my expert and infernal bbq playthroughs without using any healing items during the boss battles, the main thing that stuck out while fighting the bosses was the excessive duration of each boss fight and the inconsistent level of difficulty between the bosses. The main thing that contributes to this though is the fact that the bosses in TEVI do not scale to your item percentage like in Rabi-Ribi. This means that depending on how much you have collected, you will either have an easier time or harder time, which makes it so the order of bosses you would fight in a normal run has an inconsistent level of difficulty with random difficulty spikes. While you can enable potion scaling as a custom game setting, it’s not something that is present in the regular way the game recommends you to play. 4) Game Linearity TEVI is much more linear/hand holdy than Rabi-Ribi, which comes with its own downsides. I do acknowledge there are custom game settings that give you more free roaming abilities, however I am judging the game based on the normal way you play it (or the way the game tells you to play your first playthrough). Some key movement items are gated behind the story which can make exploring locations and collecting items in the early game a lot more tedious. This wouldn’t be a super big issue if some of the key movement items could be found in areas not tied to important plot points, but most of the major ones like wall jump, double jump, and slide are tied to the story, and while you could rush those areas before you start trying to find all items in this game, neglecting to explore a decent amount might make your stats underleveled and make some of the bosses harder to fight. I do think the free roam custom mode should be more integrated into the standard experience, as I feel this game would have benefited with being able to explore any area you want granted you know how to get there, as well as include the reverse wall-jump tech from Rabi-Ribi in the standard mode too. You could even block off important story related sections like how Rabi-Ribi does it if you don’t want players to progress too far without certain items. The Good While the review so far has been negative, there are some things I genuinely liked about TEVI, and I will list them below: - Having all the main characters and antagonists fully voiced by talented JP voice actors - Crafting is interesting and intuitive - The music is great - The variety of locations and their distinctive designs from one another - Money and progressive upgrades are found by detonating zenny rocks or gems which incentives exploration - Pixel art is beautiful, though may not be everyone’s cup of tea - The character design is great, and the CGs are beautiful too - The colosseum for boss rush and the circus update both add great post-game content to try out and have fun with - Rabi-Ribi reference in the form of “Rabi-Smash” (I had to lol) - All characters are standout and have their own unique things about them Conclusion While I don’t dislike TEVI, it feels like for every step forward, there’s another two steps backward. On paper, the game improves on Rabi-Ribi in several areas, but in practice, many of these systems feel overcomplicated or underwhelming due to the sense of scale TEVI has. The gameplay was what gave me mixed feelings about this game the most, as I feel like compared to Rabi-Ribi it misses the mark in so many areas from boss design, to overall combat feel, and how hand holdy it feels despite being a metroidvania. I still think the game is good, and the team did a wonderful job iterating on old and new ideas to make the game stand out from its predacessor Rabi-Ribi, but I think that some design decisions that were made left me with mixed feelings upon completing what the game has to offer. With that said though, I still can't wait for when the DLC CreSpirit is working on for TEVI comes out!
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If you've played Rabi-Ribi, the developer's other most popular game, the gameplay loop of this will look and feel extremely similar, as it is very blatantly based off the foundation of Rabi-Ribi. And I think the best way to describe TEVI is "Rabi-Ribi, but more of everything". However, this isn't necessarily a good thing. As the old adage says, "less is more". TEVI's world is even bigger than Rabi-Ribi, with more collectibles than ever to find and extend the runtime of your playthrough. However, this also makes the world feel more bloated, more of a hassle to traverse, and much more of a commitment to 100%. Not to mention more opportunities for frustrating segments and just-a-little-bit-too-obfuscated hiding places for items. TEVI's badge system is absolutely massive, with hundreds of badges and badge points to customize your gameplay in endless different directions. However, the degree of micro-optimization that can be done necessitates that each badge must have minuscule effects that are each barely noticeable on their own, and very hard to naturally judge the degree to which any given badge is helping you through the feel of the gameplay. TEVI's battle system has more in-depth mechanics to increase the skill ceiling, such as golden dodges. However, it can all end up feeling like too many things to keep track of in your mind at once in the heat of battle, and it is very easy to frequently forget half of these mechanics exist. TEVI's story is much more substantial than Rabi-Ribi. However, the addition of more intense stakes, serious moments, and plot twists leaves more room to execute these things poorly. In addition, the vibe created by the story is much heavier at many points, which can create an odd contrast between the lighthearted moments and whimsical character designs that are more reminiscent of Rabi-Ribi. There is one final thing to top it all off: The massive degree of story-gating. There are so, so many items and areas that cannot be accessed with progressing the main story, and ALL major exploration items are tied directly to main story progress as well. It should go without saying that this feels extremely out of place in the Metroidvania genre but especially for a spiritual successor to Rabi-Ribi, which had an extremely open world and very minimal story-progress requirements. While there are alternate gameplay modes that address this problem, it doesn't change the fact that this is the game experience of the main default story mode, and you will feel the constant wrenches being thrown in your way as you progress through that mode. All of these things combine to create a significantly *weighty* game, both in amount of things to do, mental commitment, and emotional commitment. I believe it's weighty enough that it hurts the game's potential in a lot of ways. For example, the massively increased level of STUFF to deal with feels like it severely hampers TEVI's replay value, which I feel was one of Rabi-Ribi's greatest strengths. Despite everything I've said about the game, I admit that the criticisms I have of this game do stand out more in my mind, because I'm talking from a biased perspective of comparing it to Rabi-Ribi (of which the comparisons are simply inevitable for those who've played both). While I do feel these are all valid criticisms that hurt the gameplay experience, they probably aren't THAT bad objectively. After all, I do feel I enjoyed my time with the game, so I still think that it's a perfectly lovely experience that's worth your time. The Rabi-Ribi foundation it's built off of *is* incredibly solid after all, and the strengths of that game's design don't go away just because of all the stuff I said above. It's just like, yknow, not "best game of all time" material like Rabi-Ribi is. Probably like around 7/10.
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Weird one to say for sure because Tevi, the video game, the metroidvania that you actually play, is REALLY good. Combat hits that sweet spot of making you feel very powerful while also still making combat encounters feel meaningful, the map is HUGE and interconnected, the platforming for the most part feels good (I do not really like the wall jump but it's, mostly, fine), there's SO many secrets to find and the tools you have to secret hunt are sufficient to find all of them (postgame, anyways). It's just a joy to play and a meaty enough experience to feel satisfying - where my only gripe on this front is that on Normal difficulty it's a bit, easy, but, I guess that's why harder difficulties exist! And then there's Tevi, the video game, the narrative-focused, mostly linear guided tour of the world that... look, I'm sorry, this plot is NOT strong enough to justify how restricted it makes the overall experience feel. It's quite bad, actually. Way way WAY too many characters and too much lore without any real coherent plot thread tying it all together - there's like five layers of twist villain as the "end goal" changes several times over the course of the story and most of the big, meaninful "main quest" events feel like they would be side quests in any other game, especially with how few of them reach any real resolution. Also, the game equates killing off characters with emotional drama even though most of those characters barely exist for any reason other than to die and one of them is unlikeable enough that it's hard to miss them. And that's, the only emotional thread the story tries to tug at. Like, six or seven times? I started rolling my eyes at it eventually. The VA is fine I guess but I skipped most of it once I'd finished reading the (often poorly-written and annoyingly trope-y) dialogue because, simply put the plot is not engaging enough to warrant sitting through the VA. Sorry. That being said this is also a game I'm looking forward to revisiting in free roam mode which strikes me as the likely ideal way to play it, and I feel the urge to actually, like, get good at it - again, a thing the main game never really pushed me towards doing - so, this is likely a game I'm bound to come back to - without seeing any of the story ever again, most likely. The archipelago randomizer is already there too so, that could be fun! There's so many possible ways to build your character and such an extreme power creep over the course of the game that no two playthroughs are ever gonna look exactly the same, either, and I think that's really cool! Super customizable and replayable experience. It's just a shame it's all tied to a lackluster story and that the entire game bends to the will of that story, mostly for the worst. A+ metroidvania wearing B or C tier clothing, I think.
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TEVI is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
TEVI is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
TEVI received 3,173 positive votes out of a total of 3,534 achieving a rating of 8.64.
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TEVI was developed by CreSpirit, GemaYue and Ein Lee and published by CreSpirit and Neverland Entertainment.
TEVI is playable and fully supported on Windows.
TEVI is not playable on MacOS.
TEVI is not playable on Linux.
TEVI is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for TEVI. Explore additional content available for TEVI on Steam.
TEVI does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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9
Developer
CreSpirit,
GemaYue,
Ein Lee
Publisher
CreSpirit,
Neverland Entertainment
Release
29 Nov 2023
Platforms
Remote Play