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Fun Trivia: "jikan" is the Japanese word for "time" (not saying GamesRadar never taught you anything!). Time is also the primary gameplay element Jikandia: The Timeless Land almost everything you do in this unusual 2D action game revolves around one hour of some kind.
When the game starts, your player character with the rest of your schoolmates suddenly transported off the train and into the strange land Jikandia where time is supposed to not exist - only now it does, and now you and your friends have to fix things up. The culprit seems to be the King of Time and find him will involve exploring a menagerie of different-themed platform levels filled with enemies, traps, bosses, and treasures.
But it's not quite as straightforward as that. You can actually set the time that you want to spend in each level, from three minutes up to half an hour - the longer you are willing to be the better opportunities to score and loot you can earn. You can choose to tackle the levels with a wide range of equippable weapons and improvements, and also bring up to two of your rescued classmates to increase your fighting power. Each level is divided into a variety of randomly generated room where your goal is to try to reach the target door before the deadline is up.
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Each room is also filled with enemies, obstacles, items and treasure chests, many also have attached timers that can be manipulated to achieve bonuses. There is also random time activated events, like extra enemies are mysterious or obstruction that destroy forces in each room, and a bonus objective. The bonus targets ranging from just reaching the door unsuccessfully for tasks like removing all enemies in a room, and should you complete enough objectives successfully, you will have access to a helpful power boost by using the R button. As the clock begins to wind down, you will enter a boss room where you'll have to take down a much stronger enemy to clear the level and promote history. It sounds a bit complicated at first but after a few dungeon runs you will begin to grok it all.
Jikandia are incredibly comfortable from an audiovisual standpoint. The game's sprites are cute, colorful and appealing design, with lots of fun little flourishes and animations that make them stand out as an independent, small works of video game pixel art. The backgrounds and levels are also designed with a bold, cartoon like color scheme, and it's all accompanied by a cheerful, bouncy musical score that will keep you happy hopping along as you slaughter all means adorable enemies. There is an equally silly story to go along with the nomination, but sometimes the game's bizarre and often crude sense of humor (which may well be a byproduct of the English localization) seems at odds with the sweet visual imagery.
Unfortunately, the biggest problem with Jikandia is that it is simply not as fun to play.Randomly generated levels sounds like a good idea - after all, the concept works well in RPG, right? - But it usually ends up delivering randomly built mini-levels full of near-inevitable, guaranteed-damage traps and enemies in a bizarre, frustrating places. The simplistic platforming gameplay itself lacks variety as well, and the game's incentive to spend more time in a single level often backfire by showing how the area's old gimmicks can get within a couple minutes. Varied goals for each room is a nice bonus, but even they will begin to repeat after a short time.
To top it all, the character text flashes on the bottom of the screen at each stage, while rushing to complete the rooms means you will be too busy running around and trying to avoid ill-placed hazards even able to correctly read it. But perhaps the most frustrating aspect is Jikandia lack of detailed explanation on a lot of things, leaving the player having to find out a lot of game's nuances through trial and error. It is incredibly aggravating when, for example, you can not go to the next phase, but the game will barely hints about what to do to open it (usually slog through a dungeon you just beat again.)
Jikandia is a visually distinct, charming game that has the potential to be funny in small doses - but as the game design actively discourages you from playing the way it just turns into a slightly-better-than-okay experimental platformer. It is a shame, too - with a little tweaking here and there, it could have been a real sleeper classic. Instead Jikandia's essentially destined to spend an eternity as a very niche appeal title.
