I’ve just gotten Trine off Steam and I’m loving every moments of it. Too bad there’s only 15 levels but finding out all the ways you could get through the puzzles is fun.
It plays like the Lost Vikings, save that you can only be one character at the time, and you have to use physics to get through various puzzles - it’s a mix of old school platforming and Little Big Planet.
And the music is great.
Oh yeah. Here are some trailers.. And it’s even more fun if you manage to have local co-op play.
Game site: Trine Enchanted Edition | Frozenbyte
This game was recently on sale on Steam for $10 and I know at least a few of us got it, so I thought I’d revive the thread.
I haven’t played a platformer game in probably a decade, and I’m loving this game. The art/environments are beautiful, particularly the lighting. The puzzle/environment design is well done - it’s not the sort of hardcore platformer that makes you redo a jump 15 times to get it right, or sit and think for a minute to solve a puzzle - but it’s challenging and varied enough that you don’t get bored or feel that anything is too mundane.
The story is pretty light, but that narrator could make any story sound awesome. Who is he, anyway? I feel like I’ve heard his voice on documentaries but I can’t quite place it.
I’m about half(?)way through at the 7th or 8th level. I guess there’s probably not too much replayability with platformers (what exactly do the difficulty levels do? I assume it makes enemies harder, but does it also make you jump a little less high or something to make it more difficult that way?
It’s making me take an interest in platformers again. Anything I might like if I like this game?
I just got this off of Steam for $5. Really good game. The combat is easy; the game is mostly physics based puzzles and platforming. Basically you have a wizard, a thief, and a knight. You can be any one of them at a time and often need to change to complete puzzles. It looks and sounds terrific.
I have heard high praises for Crayon Physics, if you like the physics part of the game. I don’t think Cave Story (it’s free, google for it!) is in the same vein, but it’s also another platformer that gets people raving.
Trine’s best draw for me is besides the lush environment, is the music, I bought the OST online and have it in my playlist ever since.
The best part is when you have a game over playing; plug in 2 xbox360 controllers, or have one person using the mouse/keyboard (essential for the wizard), and you can experience Trine differently. Tried it with a couple of pals and we had lots of fun. It doesn’t work so well for 3 players though.
It’s certainly one of, if not the, best executed games I’ve played since… probably Portal.
It did overstay its welcome a tad though. Short though it was it seemed to be very much more of the same for the last couple levels. Same puzzles you’d done before but in a slightly different order or slightly more difficult or the like. And the combat felt like more of a necessary pain in the ass than something to look forward to. The system of enemies spawning in right in front of you is pretty lame. It would have been more fun if they had been pre-placed, didn’t respawn, and were generally a little more fun to kill. Perhaps by having them die a tad quicker but having more of them attacking you at once.