The attitude to platformers as the genre of the “second echelon” is understandable and even justified in something. Аркада — забава по определению поверхностная. From the jumping-penal entertainment, one should not expect any intellectual depths, nor thorough immersion in the atmosphere, nor the beauty of special. So after all?
As it turned out, not so! In 2009, developers from Frozenbyte completely refuted everything that you just could read above. Trine they created definitely cannot be called a classic platformer in everything. Nevertheless, to another genre, a game captivating atmosphere, fabulousness and amazing beauty, it will not work to take.
When she came out Trine 2, It was impossible not to ask the question: will the developers come out this time to surprise users? After all, in the end, graphics are graphics, but to present the players again the same candy in a similar wrapper is not a very successful thought. Perhaps something new awaits us?
Troika, but not a bird
Last time, three heroes poorly familiar to each other, obeying the spell of the powerful artifact of the Troika (in the original it sounds like trine, where the name of the game came from), saved the kingdom from undead. Having dealt with their mission, they all scattered “to rest”. Well, to relative peace. And everything was fine with them until we came and we did not want to join a fresh platformer. The three immediately turned on the “Everything here” mode, and our old friends – the Mage of Amadeus, the warrior Pontius and the thief Zoya – went on the next trip with the slurred at first, but, of course, a great goal.
Protagonists have survived well. Amadeus – all the same demonstrative pacifist whose skills are concentrated mainly in the field of creating geometric figures from the air and levitation of everything that comes across the road. Pontius was a “tank”, he stayed with him. A powerful belly, that is, excuse me, a solid combat mass of a knight, allows him to destroy thick stone walls like a cardboard. And the sweet girl Zoya is still not too
spoiled by moral prejudices: thieves’ skills are her main horse.
We manage the heroes in turn, as in the original trine. You can choose a “fresh” character at any time – at least in the middle of the battle, at least in the jump. Numerous intermediate points of conservation scattered in levels here and there resurrect all three adventurers with a full strip of health. So if someone died on the way, it does not matter;The main thing is to bring the living to the place where it will be possible to raise the dead.
+100 to a sense of self -importance
In the strict sense of the word Trine – Two -dimensional. Moving forward here means to run away from left to right. However, within the framework of the game reality, the lack of a third dimension is not very striking – the optical illusion created by designers and artmakers, as well as high interactivity of the environment, save. The levers are pressed, pieces of pipes change places, and the cubes that the Amadeus draws in the air behave according to all the well -known laws of physics. Well, maybe not everyone, but only the law of earthly attraction, but for the platformer and this is very good.
Gameplay, on the one hand, is straightforward, on the other, it is surprisingly diverse. The developers combined an arcade basis with adventure elements and even brought a light taste of the role system from RPG.
It is pretty diversifying the gameplay and collecting luminous bottles, hidden at the most cunning points of locations. These are collectible objects necessary for the player to seriously be subtitted in the process of passing. To run along the level in the “without going there” mode, it is enough to use simple combinations of jumps, dragging boxes, jumps, fights with goblins and jumps. It seems we forgot to say about jumping.
But in order to collect all the useless, but honorary bubbles with it is not clear what, you will have to get more difficult. Here, pulling up, swinging, jumping from a collapsed platform to a collapsing platform – in general, the entire arsenal of a conditionally “hardcore” amateur Arcad.
Cabbage rules the world
For the most part, the tasks with which we have to meet along the road are simple, and the solution lies, more precisely, swims, on the surface of some artificial pond. In the form of a fragment of a pipe, for example. Set up a fragment, changed the configuration of the canal, redirected the stream – and you can move on. A large role, however, plays the speed of reaction. Иногда на манипуляции с этими самыми трубами или ящиками остаются считанные доли секунд.
So, the levers can seriously spoil the blood “with a return”. After the hero pulls the handle, we have a very small amount of time at our disposal to reach the opposite angle of the room and establish an important detail on the place due to it. There are more cunning quest structures. Particularly grace are distinguished by tasks associated with living water, from which everything grows unimaginably quickly and violently. When a giant snail blocks the road that takes an impromptu shower, we have to organize a whole aqueduct in order to take water … towards cabbage. What does cabbage have to do with it? Well, how-it is with a huge cabbage that the snails-pears eat, did you really not know?
The battles with the most serious opponents have also been resolved. A giant snake – obviously, a friend of that snail is invulnerable to simple attacks. Trying to get it in close combat – generally a muddy venture. But the arrows do not take her, and the magician, as we recall, is heaven. Can throw maximum. Until we guess to jump onto an inconspicuous platform upstairs and bring down the wall on the enemy, we will not be able to go through.
Undead and “live”
Standard opponents that have to be taken out at a time at a time since the first Trine have become more alive. That is, before we fought with a variety of undead, and now we are waiting for all sorts of aggressive “live” – goblins of all sizes and varieties, all kinds of spiders, reptiles. The habits of the monsters also differ-someone rushes on us like a tank, preferring to pound directly according to physiognomy;Someone shoots from onions, without failing to hide in the shelter.
But the main thing is that now we are constantly marching according to locations that are otherwise than a riot of nature and not. There are flowers shooting fire, live water, and huge cobblestones on the vines … What we were talking about “atmosphere is not a platformer chip”? Should take your words back. The atmosphere grows, blooms and smells, golds and sparkles, tightening the player in a fairy tale over the ears.
It is easy to guess that at ninety, and maybe ninety -nine percent with this effect Trine 2 He is obliged to schedule. Each room, each landscape give aesthetic pleasure. In 2009, Trine was something out of the row out among the arcades regarding the beauty of the incarnation. Now there have been platformers who could partially argue with creation Frozenbyte, – For example, the same Disney Universe, other levels in which also cause delight among fans of fabulous and bright.
Nevertheless Trine 2 – This is a real explosion of colors, worked out to the smallest details of the texture and, among other things, the built -up composition of locations. All this splendor is accompanied by equally magical music. And as a result, despite the fact that the gameplay remained the same as the same, not to fall in love with the continuation as much as the original, you can only be an inherent arcade, fairy tales, wizards in pointed hats, living water and other things, without whichThe game cannot be imagined.
Flowers can be protected not only with spikes. Sometimes they work as magical flamethrowers. Part -time.
Developers from Frozenbyte gave the players exactly what they expected from them. New minutes and hours of playing time, fascinating in childhood, into the world of fantasy, where grass literally greener, girl is really slower, and the sun shines brighter. Maybe, Trine 2 and no better, but certainly no worse than the original. And this is quite enough.
Pros: magnificent picture;fabulous atmosphere;diversity of the gameplay;Graceful tasks.
Cons: nothing revolutionary compared to the first game.
