Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia

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  1. Finger Guns
    Oct 8, 2020
    40
    A series as imaginative and as entertaining as Trollhunters deserved a better tie-in video game. Defenders of Arcadia has a few enjoyable moments and it certainly looks the part but uninspired combat, tired level design and a story which feels more like a TV clip show than a cohesive narrative means it falls well short of fan expectations.

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  1. ShinReviews
    Oct 11, 2020
    5
    Trollhunters has become an inferior game compared to the quality and options of other Wayforward games.

    The graphics engine (Unity) in my    Trollhunters has become an inferior game compared to the quality and options of other Wayforward games.

    The graphics engine (Unity) in my opinion had great potential, as I said before, I don't mind the lack of details or simple graphics, but as most of Wayforward's games are based on graphics with cartoons / drawings art, I believe that for if this is a series of this style, maybe it would have combined more with this graphics art (for those who didn't understand, I mean art in the Shantae style).

    The difficulty of the game is low – moderate, so if you’re a hardcore platform hunter, forget it, the challenge proposal is more for children who want to play, maybe at most in the final parts they may have s umome difficulty, where the design of one of the phases near the end may confuse them.
    If you have children, it is a good start to the game for them, with a recommended duration for this type of audience, a question of 7 stages, ranging from 2 to 4 hours, depending on the way you play.

    Now what really bothered me:
    Bugs happen in different cases while the game is running, being uncomfortable because they are graphic and gameplay bugs, where some functions are not recognized by the game.

    Graphic bug

    You can duplicate Jim on the screen, for some reason, one of these bugs caused me damage with an enemy hitting the clone.

    Bug Gameplay

    You may not recognize the assistance functions and their selections, as you can see on the side, I pressed L1 / R1 between the two sides to change and it was not recognized, varying between moments during gameplay.

    If you close the game and come back you can check the bugs again or not, it will depend on how the source code of the game will interpret the functions for each execution ... which requires an urgent code review and patch correction.

    And finally, with regard to the story, the idea of ​​the final sequence in the last phase was very good.

    It is a game that is perhaps worth getting at a more affordable price than suggested, only if you have children and if you want to introduce them to a simple game, with moderate shallow difficulty.    … Full Review »
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 29, 2020
    5
    Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia
    Hunting for the fun
    Defends of Arcadia is a 3 hour long side scrolling platformer based on the Netflix    Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia
    Hunting for the fun
    Defends of Arcadia is a 3 hour long side scrolling platformer based on the Netflix series
    Here you play as Jim Lake Jr who sets out to stop Porgon from messing with time during this time pocalypse… howver.. other than the story telling you time is being messed with, the game doesn’t do much to make you feel like this is the case other than you taking down enemies you’ve already defeated in the lore..
    At first trolhunters is decently fun, there are socks and gnomes to collect to help you unlock items to helpyou [progress through the game, and there are coins you can use for consumables, armour, and for continues.. outside of that, there isn’t much here to Defenders of arcadia, you go through the levels looking for collectable until that isn’t fun anymore, you take down bosses in pretty mediocre boss battles, you unlock a new summon to help you in the next section of the game, such as the ground rising, or healing, and that it.. that’s the game.. a mediocre tie in platforming game.. one void of all charm and fun beyond maybe 1 hour.. not a game I can recommend..
    Sure this game is functional. Its playable, really no bugs.. but there is just no heart here.. stay away
    I give Trollhunters: Defends or Arcadia
    a 4.5/10    … Full Review »