I have greatly mixed feelings on Tevi, it's clearly a passion project with a ton of work put into it and the core platforming, combat, and exploration are rock solid. Boss fights with their bullet hell attacks are a lot of fun and the map is big enough to get lost in. I always enjoy that feeling of stumbling across a new area in a metroidvania and deciding to explore.

But it has a lot of major issues right now. The story is really overwritten, the balance between bosses and exploration is a mess (I beat several late game bosses without needing to use a single one of my 10 consumables, but couldn't turn up the difficulty because exploration was already harder than I liked) and some of the map design is really bad, with a ton of one-way passages that force backtracking, some of which are traps that you can't see until you touch them. Music is a tossup, there are some excellent tracks like Verdazure Sea, Evernight Garden, Angelomania, and Replica, but a lot are forgettable.

Overall I'd recommend it, but only to people who already played and enjoyed the spiritual prequel Rabi Ribi since I think that's ultimately the better game even if it's not as flashy.

I have greatly mixed feelings on Tevi, it's clearly a passion project with a ton of work put into it and the core platforming, combat, and exploration are rock solid. Boss fights with their bullet hell attacks are a lot of fun and the map is big enough to get lost in. I always enjoy that feeling of stumbling across a new area in a metroidvania and deciding to explore. But it has a lot of major issues right now. The story is really overwritten, the balance between bosses and exploration is a mess (I beat several late game bosses without needing to use a single one of my 10 consumables, but couldn't turn up the difficulty because exploration was already harder than I liked) and some of the map design is really bad, with a ton of one-way passages that force backtracking, some of which are traps that you can't see until you touch them. Music is a tossup, there are some excellent tracks like Verdazure Sea, Evernight Garden, Angelomania, and Replica, but a lot are forgettable. Overall I'd recommend it, but only to people who already played and enjoyed the spiritual prequel Rabi Ribi since I think that's ultimately the better game even if it's not as flashy.