You really do owe it to yourself to play this game. This is one of the best platform games i have played and it is also one of the most graphicly breathtaking and the music is one of the most beautiful soundtrack i have ever heard. This game is really challenging and you feel really good when overcome it. This game also has an unexpectedly good and emotional story that will make you cry and feel warm inside. You can increase your level, health and energy by finding and collecting orbs that are scattered around this huge world of Nimble, I highly do recomend looking for them seeing how they can help you out so much.
A hat in time is a poor version of Super mario 64, Why do i say that ? beacuse you jump into levels, there are hats that gives you powerups and you collect hourglasses in the same way as you do with the stars, wich also takes you out of the stage like in mario 64. You go trhough 4 different levels but (but with very similar challanges and play style) to collect hourglasses, with the aid of some power hats that you can craft trhough some yarnballs that are scattared around the level, You can also buy some patches that will give you some buffs although some are completely usless. There are four different types of hats that you very rarely have to use beacuse the developers didn't make that many challanges around them. You can ofcourse use them to get some collectibles or gems. A hat in time is a third person platformer but for some reason you can't go in first person mode to get a better look on your surrounding making some jumps harder and finding collectibles a bit more of a pain in the arse. I would not recomend this game.