Omochapon

• Genre: Platforming
• Spoiler Free Review: Not really anything to spoil
• Time Played: 2 hrs 50 min
• Too Short/Long: It's appropriate for what it offers.
• Soundtrack: Almost non-existent. Most of the the games background is random mechanical sounds or maybe elevator music at best. 
• Pleased/Disappointed: It's fine.
• Why I played: I needed something low-effort after Tunic. Something I could just play and mostly turn my mind off to, this worked out pretty well.
• Did I cry: No.
• Recommend to others: Probably not. It's fine, it's just not anything really special.

Omochapon harkens back to the early days of 3D platforming. This could have easily been a PSX/Saturn/N64 platformer, and maybe been better for it. Even if it were released 30 years ago though, I don't think it would have been revolutionary. That's not to say it's bad, it's just pretty simple, it generally uses only one or two buttons per form and there is a switching form button.

You get a handful of toys you unlock/play as, but most of them just feel like their only purpose is to serve as an ability gate. The robot exists almost exclusively to climb ladders, but can also open things. It's most clever use is mid-air switching to it when performing platforming as a car/bunny, or flying in the plane directly into a ladder - which to robot happens to be the only one that can climb. Despite it arguably being the "coolest" and the only one that isn't a gashapon toy, but a boxed figure, it is probably the one you play as the least. Even the pill bug toy has a couple forced sections where you play similar to a marble platforming game.

It's not bad, it's a cute game. It could be a lot more, but I'm not complaining.