![]() Or the thief and knight can work together by first freezing and then smashing enemies. During a puzzle, the wizard in your group might conjure a box, which he can levitate with another player standing on it to reach a goal. Instead of having to perform an action as one character and then switch to another, players are given the chance to work together and, if you know what you’re doing, experience a unique and fun multiplayer experience. Rather than limiting players by keeping them confined to one character, the ability to play with other people opens up the entire game to even more creativity. Nowhere is this freedom more apparent than in co-op gameplay, which assigns a single role to each person. This will be important to remember as you play, because some of the puzzles and platforming sections can become incredibly frustrating (until you figure out the solution, then you might just feel a little silly for not having grasped it sooner). The solution you come up with might not always be the ‘right’ one, but there is no penalty for being creative. It is completely possible to go through the entirety of Trine 2 without picking a single perk, but in a game that encourages creative problem solving, the ability to enhance your characters is just one more way to do that and the added choices given to you by customizing your characters opens up the entire title even more.įreedom to proceed how you like will become a boon during later levels when the puzzles become more difficult and the answer might not be readily apparent, or you can’t quite get the timing needed to move on. Either way, the required task is completed.Įach character has access to five upgrades, which can be unlocked by collecting glowing blue orbs and bottles to level up. If Zoya has her stealth ability, she can simply become invisible, or Amadeus can stack boxes and stand on top of them, also hiding from the goblins. One example of this can be found later in the game when the player must hide from some goblins. In fact, there will be many times that the level itself gives you multiple options on how to continue. So while there is an easy way to do things, by using the class that best fits a given task, it is usually only a suggestion and players are free to pick their own puzzle-solving path. Each of the heroes has customizing options that give ample wiggle room to allow for even more experimentation while solving puzzles or fighting enemies. ![]() Although the orbs might not always be there when you need them, the liberal placement helps quite a bit and in all likelihood you will be revisiting a given orb more than once.Īlthough you may die a bit, there is an extremely large amount of freedom to proceed through the game however you want. This allows you to quickly save your progress, revive fallen heroes, and completely replenish the health of all three of them. If you have a particular attachment to one of the three, however, reviving them is as easy as finding a checkpoint orb, which is almost always going to be very close to a particularly hard puzzle or one of the more challenging fights. When one character dies, you can simply switch to another (there are three of them there, after all) and continue on. Lots of death.Īs is the case with any game in the puzzle genre, most of the solutions are found by trial and error, and quite a few of the errors will end in one or more of the three characters dying. The three classes may not be anything original, but the ability to switch between them at will is, and will be necessary as players battle and puzzle their way through the game’s thirteen levels.Įach level contains puzzles, pitfalls, and enemies to kill. Each character has a specific set of skills: Zoya the thief has a grappling hook and wields a bow Pontius, a knight, has a sword and shield as well as a two-handed hammer and Amadeus is a wizard who can conjure boxes and planks, and is also able to levitate objects. Trine 2 follows three very different individuals who were forced, in the first title, to become heroes. Publisher: Frozenbyte, Atlus (XBLA, PSN), Focus (EU PC) Most importantly, the ability to switch between characters is back and fans get to see just what Frozenbyte is up to this time. ![]() There is more platforming, physics puzzling, and action, along with a new story and villains. Now Frozenbyte is back with Trine 2, a new adventure for the three heroes introduced in the first game. While some of these elements were stronger than others, the ability to switch between three different character types at will to solve puzzles and advance in the game made for quite the interesting concept. ![]() Trine, which came out in 2009, was a mixture of platforming, physics puzzles, and action with RPG elements.
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