Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia

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  1. Hardcore Gamer
    Sep 28, 2020
    70
    Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is a fun, but flawed action-platformer that may deliver a lot of thrills for fans of the series, but lacks enough substance to be a must-buy for those coming in cold. It’s a good game technically, but one with levels that lack soul and a rock-solid layout. What’s here is done well — but it could be done better. The graphical design in particular feels like something from a bygone era with iffy-looking character models and environments that are dull and lifeless. There’s a lot of life to the world around you, but the darker visual look of everything beguiles it and doesn’t do it much justice. Thankfully, it’s still a fun romp in part to the show’s voice cast shining and the excellent soundtrack making the adventure fun to listen to.

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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 »