![]() ![]() Since it is so visually beautiful, it can be a beast on lesser video cards, even at the lowest setting. There are nice visuals with diverse settings and instead of cut scenes, the game just uses narrations as you play, which I greatly prefer. It is also very physics based and the physics feel nice. The game is very beautiful, bright and vibrant. He is just your straight up sword swinger, effective melee character…. These first two classes are a lot of fun and have a lot of depth, but then we get to the third class / character, the warrior. You can use your boxes and platforms to crush enemies. You can also draw platforms and click and drag specific things to move them or get them out of your way. Then you have the wizard that can magically make boxes by clicking or holding the right trigger and draw a box. You first have the most useful class, the Thief that can use a grappling hook to wooden ledges, a bow, and a flaming bow to light torches. You have three characters that you can switch between on the fly, similar to the old Lost Vikings game. Want to know what this score means? Check out our Scoring Guidelines page.Trine is a puzzle platformer with some action thrown in there. Some otherwise great games may fall into this category if they are priced unreasonably high. These games might be good buying decisions for some people but not for others. They are generally fun to play but might be lacking in longevity, replay value, or presentation. It really serves as a bridging point to its grander sequel. If you haven't yet played a game there is still some substance to it, but do play it with an open mind. If you enjoyed the sequel and wanted to see how the series began, then you'll no doubt still find enjoyment. The Gamepad is really the only way to play the game, as it makes aiming and environmental interaction much easier.Īs a whole, it feels like a collection of unique ideas that are ultimately not brilliantly executed. He requires you to "draw" shapes to conjure objects, such as drawing a square for a box, which can only be done with the right stick or on the Gamepad's touch screen. If you wish to play exclusively on the Pro Controller, be warned as it makes playing as the wizard much more cumbersome than necessary. Enemy and boss variety is also very shallow, it won't be long before you start to wish for more than just skeletons to fight. The progression is fairly slow for such a short game, only testing you near the end. The levels themselves are fairly varied, but the puzzles themselves don't stretch the brain too much. Jumping can also be fairly imprecise, being a little too floaty to make explicit actions. The physics can also work against you at times, making you have to redo things. However, many are simple enough to be solved by almost anyone without much effort. Each of these abilities is tied into the puzzles in some form, often having to switch between them on the fly to move ahead. The thief has a grappling hook, the wizard can conjure various platforms and the knight has a magnetic shield, for example. Each character has some method of interacting with the environment in some manner. The gameplay focuses on making your way through each level by solving the various physics based puzzles. The music also plays its part in giving the game the fairy tale setting, but it isn't particularly catchy or memorable, serving only as a set piece. The visuals are very stylised, with plenty of bloom to provide a soft glow to the lighting which creates a very atmospheric look and feel. More effort has been put into creating the fantasy world, where you travel through forests, caves and castles. Each character has their own individual archetype, but ultimately have very little development leaving them as rather shallow. The plot for the game is very light and largely forgettable, though does provide a whimsical fairy tale feel with plenty of wonder for those willing to get invested. ![]() Trine is not an action heavy or precise platformer, instead it's the thinker's platformer where you have to navigate the levels using each of the three character's unique abilities in the right moments. If you haven't played Trine 2, then it's more a matter of if you enjoy the sort of gameplay the series has to offer. It isn't as grand as the sequel, but it is still the same sort of game which also gives players context behind the sequel. ![]() But the question is, after playing Trine 2, is its predecessor worth the time? However, Frozenbyte have taken the opportunity to remaster the original game using the improved engine of the sequel and it has a much welcomed Wii U release to go with it. Before now, Wii U owners only had access to Trine 2.
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