Things get a little Jurassic in Tiny Hands Adventure when young T-Rex Borti is playing soccer with a group of his friends. The only trouble is, he’s got short arms and he’s stuck playing goalie. Unhappy, Borti heads off to a fairy with his wish for bigger and better arms. She sends him off on a quest in which he must collect a bunch of shapes and defeat a small handful of bosses who possess what he wants.

The game brings you to a total of four areas, each with five stages contained within : four platforming levels, and a boss level. Through the platforming areas, you’ll be doing just that, platforming. However, it’s not a lot of it. All Borti can do is jump…and fall. He has an attack move in which he spins around and hits stuff with his tail, or uses one of the weapons he’ll pick up on his journey, but he’s very limited in what he can do.

You’ll encounter some enemies in the levels, but they’re really nothing to be concerned about. They’re all fairly stationary, and if they move it’s not much. Most of them don’t even attack, although a few do have a short-range spit attack. Since Borti doesn’t have any sort of health bar, he’s done in one hit unless you’ve managed to pick up one of the shield power-ups.

The boss stages are fairly simple too. You’ll still be highly focused on platforming, but there will be other attacks to dodge this time. Once you defeat a boss, you’ll get their tool or weapon, and move on to the next area.

Overall Tiny Hands Adventure is a fun game, but it’s not without its faults. The biggest of these for me personally was the camera angle. You have no control over it, so if you’re in a stage where peeking around corners would be advantageous, you’ll have to rely on guess and check. This is extremely frustrating in one of the earlier stages where you’ll be climbing up a narrow tower around the outside. With the camera the way it is, it’ll be tough to see where you’re going and to line up your next jump.

Graphically the game looks great, giving off a very cartoony feel once you get into it. It instantly reminded me of games like Yooka Laylee with its visuals. One of my favorite stages was one where it went to a side-screen perspective and takes on a comic book style visual. The soundtrack for the game is…interesting to say the least. You’ll get a lot of stereotypical “platforming” music, but then it’ll ramp up into some dubstep, so expect the sounds to take you all over.

If you’re playing on PC, you won’t be forced to use the keyboard controls either (which add a ton of difficulty to this game I might add). It fully supports controller, although the game will continue to display control prompts off the keyboard inputs.

Tiny Hands Adventure might not be an “amazing” game, but it is still fun to play and worth doing so. It may be more suited to a younger generation who might get more of a challenge playing this, as I had no problem blazing through levels while balancing a one-week old baby in my lap.

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7/10

Tested on PC (Steam)