Trine – The journey so far
UPDATE: Finished the game.
Need more visitors to fullfil the attention whore in me, so lets do a mini review type thing.
Trine was released on the steam store yesterday, i highly recommed you try the demo and/or buy the full game. Apparently it can be found on PSN on the PS3 aswell. For the PC you could actually buy the disk, from a shop, but everywhere seems to be alot more expensive than steam.
Anywho, to the game. First of all, i havnt finished it, didnt start playing til very late and stopped at 1am so this is just a review of how its going so far. The game itself is a 3D sidescroller, you know, 3D graphics but you can only move on a 2D plane. Theres fighting with a variety of weapon (more on that soon), basic platofrming and some physics puzzles. It also has some RPG elements, with little green bottles you pickup for experience which you can upgrade skills with, you can also find useful equipment to boost stats and find new skills in chests throughout the game.
To begin with you get to play 3 characters, one after the other.
Theif
She has two main skills to start with, the first being her Bow. As with most bows, the accuracy and power is crap unless you hold the draw until it becomes steady. The range on it isnt great, even when fully charged, but its not too difficult to aim slightly higher than your target so that it reaches them, and since its a sidescroller you cant see that far ahead of you anyway. You can upgrade to shoot up to 3 arrows at a time, so youre more likley to hit something and will do alot more damage.
The second skill is a grappling hook, it cant grab ahold of just anything though. So far it only works on wooden things, a cool feature though is that you can wedge wooden boxes into spikes in ceilings, and then use that wooden box to grapple and swing, something you may be doing quite alot as you progress.There is also a fire arrow upgrade, it can be used to light torches, since the level you find it on is VERY dark without them lit. It also does extra damage although it uses your energy
Wizard
The intro mentions fireballs, and how fireballs attract the ladies, but he cant do that, not yet atleast. Im not sure if it will be an unlockable skill in the future, the wizard has yet to learn any directly offensive skills, he is all about the physics in the game. His firsk skill is to grab hold and move almost any object that is affected by physics with magic. This is used to move boxes for climbing, move planks to span gaps, and move hanging platofrms. There are even a few instances where platofrms and boxes are hanging from a little cart like thing with wheels, you stand on the platform and move the cart accross to span gaps.
As breifly mentioned before, this is the character than can wedge objects into deadly spikes, to make them less deadly and help you pass them.
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