Treasure Adventure Game is a beautiful retro-esque, metroidvania platformer. But the severity of the issues it suffers from leave many players in despair. Depending on your system configuration, issues may include: - the game starting up, displaying a frozen black or white screen. - the game starting & allowing you to play just up to receiving the boat, then crashing back to Windows - severe frame rate issues - related to frame rate, difficulty or inability to move when wind blows in the opposite direction your ship is traveling - related to frame rate, certain items not functioning properly, making some puzzles impossible to complete. One example is later in the game, there is a puzzle that requires you to quickly lite 4 torches. The flames you capture in a magic jar will not shoot far enough to light them all if your frame rate is poor. - related to frame rate, some levels are near if not totally impossible to clear. An example being later in the game, when far down in the Globo Corporation dungeon. There are electrical arcs that you must go through, that span between the ceiling & floor, and turn on & off in intervals. Again if your frame rate is poor, it is nearly if not entirely impossible to pass through these arcs without getting hit. And there are more arcs to navigate than there are points in your life bar. The author has addressed these issues by recommending players specifically running Windows 7, to set the game to XP compatibility mode. Regardless, even with this, players are still reporting difficulty. And of course those running earlier versions of Windows are out of luck. After several months since the release of v1.0, & numerous bug reports later, there has been no word from the author if a bug fixed version will ever be released. Has this project been abandoned? The author of this review can only speculate. In closing, TAG is a wonderful game when it works on your system. However, whether or not it will & to what degree, will be a gamble at best.
