Troll and I

 PlayStation 4
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4.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 19 out of 37
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  1. Letiste-Gaming
    Apr 2, 2017
    6
    Troll And I presenta un único y principal problema: ha pecado de ser demasiado ambicioso y eso ha dejado en evidencia un apartado audiovisual muy mejorable dado sus modestos orígenes y su reducido presupuesto.

    Pero lo último que vamos a hacer aquí es castigar a un título por su ambición, y teniendo en cuenta la modesta plantilla del estudio, el resultado final es admirable y deseamos    Troll And I presenta un único y principal problema: ha pecado de ser demasiado ambicioso y eso ha dejado en evidencia un apartado audiovisual muy mejorable dado sus modestos orígenes y su reducido presupuesto.

    Pero lo último que vamos a hacer aquí es castigar a un título por su ambición, y teniendo en cuenta la modesta plantilla del estudio, el resultado final es admirable y deseamos poder ver todo el potencial del estudio contando con mas medios a su alcance (ya sea en una secuela o en una nueva IP).

    Si sois capaces de pasar por alto sus problemas técnicos y su desfasado apartado gráfico y os gustan los juegos de aventura a lo Naughty Dog, creo que Troll And I os gustara, y probablemente la mayoría de sus asperezas se limen con el tiempo y futuros parches.

    Espero que sea un título que no acabe siendo recordado porque algún youtuber de cuarta haga un vídeo riéndose de sus carencias técnicas, y se valoren las buenas ideas que ha intentado plasmar (cooperativo local, su historia...). No es original, pero sus mecánicas básicas funcionan lo suficiente como para darnos unas cuantas horas de diversión.    … Expand
  2. CanadianYeti
    Jul 17, 2017
    1
    This game feels like it was thrown together over the course of a few months by a dev team that just didn’t care, and how it won the few awards it did at E3 last year is beyond me.
  3. vojta57
    Jun 28, 2020
    4
    It would have been an 8 or 7 had the game been polished. It is indeed ambitious but the story and voice acting are bad, but more importantly, the game runs at 15-20 fps when in split screen, there are numerous game breaking bugs and glitches, the game crashes a lot, … I loved the concept, on paper the game is great, but it runs like crap.
  4. danield80
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This game is A Way Out, Assassin's Creed and The Last of Us in one. An ambitious project that didn't end well.
    The gameplay provides entertainment. Playing as the boy, you traverse, craft items, fight with the monsters, sneak up behind enemies, collect things, throw spears. Playing as the troll is more simplistic and less amusing. It's not as well split up as it is in A Way Out.
    The    This game is A Way Out, Assassin's Creed and The Last of Us in one. An ambitious project that didn't end well.
    The gameplay provides entertainment. Playing as the boy, you traverse, craft items, fight with the monsters, sneak up behind enemies, collect things, throw spears. Playing as the troll is more simplistic and less amusing. It's not as well split up as it is in A Way Out.
    The story is not that bad as some write, it's just simple. The voice-acting is cheesy and the graphics are nowhere near the trailers.
    The game's biggest issues are loads of game-breaking glitches and bugs. Also, the framerate drops to 10-15 when playing splitscreen. This ruins the experience so much it makes it a really bad game. This game had so much potential. Shame, it could've been at least 7.5/10 if it would run properly with minimum bugs.    … Expand
  5. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Troll and I
    Full of Moles and Full of Bugs
    Troll and I is a puzzle action adventure game where you play as both Otto and a troll he meets during a forest fire after he rushes home to check on his mother… You spend the rest of the game trying to get back… I was initially surprised and hopeful when this game started… It starts with a hunting sequence.. Sadly this sequence is only there    Troll and I
    Full of Moles and Full of Bugs
    Troll and I is a puzzle action adventure game where you play as both Otto and a troll he meets during a forest fire after he rushes home to check on his mother…
    You spend the rest of the game trying to get back…
    I was initially surprised and hopeful when this game started…
    It starts with a hunting sequence..
    Sadly this sequence is only there to introduce the crafting system...
    You get stick to make spears and you take out boars to bring home for dinner…
    This of course isn’t what you use the items you get off of the boar though..
    But you do use these items to craft your first weapon…
    The forest is crawling with all sorts of mole enemies, who’s portals are sealed by using the troll to seal them up…
    And you can fight them hand to hand with Otto or with the troll which I advise…
    The troll can kill most enemies in a single hit… and Otto’s weapons do break and materials for crafting new weapons are practically nonexistent.. so it’s wise to hold off on using him unless the game absolutely forces you…
    But after the games initial hour of about 9 you realize troll and I is about to take you on a long ride…
    Initially things are fine…
    I thought wow some little team made a cheap man’s tomb raider meets uncharted game with a troll companion…
    I was getting tiny majin and the forsaken kingdom vibes…
    And then I hit a point during an uncharted style obstacle where Otto says he can’t hop this gap.. There must be another way…
    Instantly I sigh. .think to myself... after all of that…
    Climb down
    then I spent a good hour running around this area trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing...
    The game gives you quote unquote hints… which are really just reminders of where you’re supposed to be going…
    not actually saying hey I should check out that over there… which would’ve been nice many many times during my journey..
    Especially in the beginning when I was rolling my eyes thinking great… it’s one of these games…
    And I was right... it is one of those games throughout…
    A puzzle game that puts you in a massive area to figure out environmental puzzles and remember where things were to come back to them later as the entire map is connected…
    The game forces back tracking way too much and you’re in areas far too long… making the overall pacing of this game near unbearable…
    The story moves forward at a crawl as you’re climbing around, trying to find items you need to craft spears to break a wall, or running all the way back near the beginning of the game for more shards to make more spears…
    materials in general are way too rare to make the crafting system feel satisfying or fun…
    you’re just climbing up rocks praying you don’t have to craft something around the corner
    Switching back and forth between characters to progress because they annoying don’t automatically follow each other, and when you do the command to come to you… they rarely do or get stuck behind a wall…
    You can climb the troll as Otto and walk together.. But many moments in the game you have to split up as Otto disarms troll traps, or has to climb through holes to move an item
    this is primarily an Otto game... really only using the troll when you have the solution and are ready to move on…
    You can play this game co-op, but the troll isn’t going to have much fun waiting on you…
    and onto the bugs…
    For starts the hit detection in combat is garbage…
    spears and melee attacks will many times go through enemies… frustrating during the cheap sections of the game where you try to sneak up behind an enemy that instakills you and you’re attacks are doing nothing and you have to restart many minutes back and recollect every item up to that point because the auto saves in this game are trash…
    Also I had a few moments where the characters would get stuck on a wall forcing me to back out of the game and back in..And again... deal with the awful auto save losing way too much of my progress…
    And the game crashed on me twice…
    once during a really annoying bug where the screen starts shaking like a volcano is supposed to go off…
    This shaking happened probably 3 or 4 times during my journey to the end…
    And finally I wouldn’t necessarily call this a bug, but lazy game development during a boss battle in the game where you have to throw rocks at an enemies stomach to break its shield… after I broke 2 pieces I threw another rock assuming I had to break the rest of it…
    And Otto kept yelling that I was almost there.. Keep hitting him… so I did… 30 times... and the battle would not progress….
    Troll and I isn’t a bad game
    But it’s not a good game either.
    It’s just a game that exists with cool ideas but many many problems
    but mostly, the atrocious pacing.
    I give Troll and I
    a 5/10    … Expand
  6. DLechoix
    Mar 27, 2017
    7
    Troll and I is a lot fun. I love playing as both characters. The graphics could be better and there are occasional bugs that may just need patching and this game would be an 8 for me. As it is I'll give it a 7 because there's really a lot here and I think it can appeal to a lot of different gamers for different reasons. For one, there is couch coop which makes playing with another playerTroll and I is a lot fun. I love playing as both characters. The graphics could be better and there are occasional bugs that may just need patching and this game would be an 8 for me. As it is I'll give it a 7 because there's really a lot here and I think it can appeal to a lot of different gamers for different reasons. For one, there is couch coop which makes playing with another player really fun. Also the combat is interesting as you can keep switching up your strategy weather you are the troll or the kid. I love the puzzles where you have to work as a pair. the story is also unique and I am enjoying it a lot so far.… Expand
  7. maxcaufield
    Mar 1, 2019
    10
    My favorite game of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. Berrlett
    Aug 21, 2018
    5
    Shame the Idea is there for a good couch coop but the execution left a lot to be desired. graphically this game feels and plays couple of generations back but the puzzles and the switch from Troll to Otto and vise versa is good. If only they delayed a few months and continued to work on it, could have been something different.
  9. riverkev95
    Aug 16, 2017
    2
    Para ser un juego de Play Station 4 en donde la potencia gráfica es algo tan fundamental, resulta muy difícil jugar este juego que a su fecha de salida tiene demasiadas cosas por pulir.
  10. pollosensei
    Jun 16, 2021
    1
    This game reminds me of bad gmod mods... do I need to say more? It's graphics and gameplay are painful and it feels like a bad 1996 game
  11. JasonMaguire
    Dec 21, 2019
    3
    Troll and I is possibly one of the worst games I have ever played, as soon as I began playing as Otto I had regretted loading up the game. The graphics needed quite a bit of work and there were constant bugs when controlling the troll and Otto the narrative is in no way interesting and I had lost whatever interest I had in the game very quickly. The voice acting is sub-par anything thatTroll and I is possibly one of the worst games I have ever played, as soon as I began playing as Otto I had regretted loading up the game. The graphics needed quite a bit of work and there were constant bugs when controlling the troll and Otto the narrative is in no way interesting and I had lost whatever interest I had in the game very quickly. The voice acting is sub-par anything that Otto says is very lifeless no matter how important it is to the story. The gameplay is incredibly boring, even in combat. I would not recommend this garbage to anyone.… Expand
  12. Fayt215
    Dec 24, 2021
    1
    I got this on ps4 and I heard this was a bad game so I got it when it was on sale for 3$ and man I wish I had my 3$ back. The first 30 mins was ok at best. The controls for the main character and troll are kinda clunky. Stealth combat is pointless and the camera shaking when the troll is running is annoying but the biggest issue for me has to be the frame rate drop. I swear the game had toI got this on ps4 and I heard this was a bad game so I got it when it was on sale for 3$ and man I wish I had my 3$ back. The first 30 mins was ok at best. The controls for the main character and troll are kinda clunky. Stealth combat is pointless and the camera shaking when the troll is running is annoying but the biggest issue for me has to be the frame rate drop. I swear the game had to be running on 10fps because as soon as there's more than one enemy on the screen the game is in slow motion. The main character always does a finishing move on every enemy he melees to death but just a warning don't do this near a wall or ledge because you might glitch right through the wall and get stuck or fall to your death as I have which causes you to replay sections over and over again and those frame rate drops WILL eventually end up with you crashing. This game has such a low completion rate because most people can't even play it because it crashes so much. I was actually going to 100% this game just for kicks even though it was very very painful to play this game. I only had just a handful of collectibles left and was nearing the end when this game crashed because it can't handle the troll throwing a rock which you need to do to cover spawning points for enemies. I start my game back up and what do I find NOTHING the ui is gone the troll is gone and the camera is just stuck in place and all I can do is pause the game and leave and restart and its the same thing so I'm just screwed, oh and btw this game was no manual saves it only has a checkpoint system so you better hope you pass by one in those long sections, so here I am just stuck here 80% through the game no ui, no troll, and powerless to do anything. I spent a lot of time and frustration getting to where I'm at just to get screwed by this games inconsistency to run and I am not about replay the entire game all over again going through the frustrating fps drops, bugs, glitches, and crashes again. It gets 1 point just for working kinda. I wish I had my 3 dollars back.… Expand
  13. Maffin9987
    Jul 3, 2023
    1
    Durch ein Update konnte, man eine Wand nicht mehr hochklettern wodurch man es nicht weiter spielen konnte

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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 8 out of 12
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 29, 2017
    30
    A longer development period might have made this into something more playable, but it would still be a game of rehashed concepts notable only for its sheer banality. [May 2017, p.96]
  2. PlaySense
    Apr 18, 2017
    40
    There's potential here, but it's hard to bring that into account when the visuals, audio and gameplay are all mediocre or even straightout bad.
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  3. TheSixthAxis
    Apr 7, 2017
    30
    Slapping down poor video games never brings me much pleasure, especially those that genuinely show promise. While it has a unique setting and some solid ideas, boring level design and a general lack of imagination when piecing together all of these components leaves me with very little to praise.
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