Troll and I

 Xbox One
Metascore
33

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 5 out of 5
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  1. Generación Xbox
    Apr 3, 2017
    45
    Two characters are the protagonists in this adventure with poor narrative content, and it fails to empathize with the characters and their history leaving us a bittersweet taste with good ideas but with its graphics from the past generation presenting numerous technical problems added to the final quality of the product. That high price is an inconvenient thing.
  2. TheXboxHub
    Apr 22, 2017
    40
    Maximum Games have a solid premise throughout Troll and I, and the game can be made much better with patches, but ultimately Troll and I will be lost to the vast majority of players who are unwilling to see the game for its good points opposed to its potential.
  3. Impulsegamer
    Apr 14, 2017
    36
    Troll and I has a pretty big price tag so I wouldn’t be rushing out to purchase it any time soon as the quality of the gameplay doesn’t justify it.
  5. ICXM
    Mar 30, 2017
    25
    Troll and I is a mess of an experience all the way through. With bare-bones gameplay, Xbox 360-era graphics and an atrocious frame rate, Troll and I is not worthy of anyone’s time at its $50 price tag.
  6. ZTGD
    Apr 14, 2017
    20
    Troll and I was a miserable experience in just about every way imaginable. There are technical problems abound and the sum parts of its design baffle. Don’t play it out of curiosity, you won’t enjoy it.

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5.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

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  1. 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    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    … Full Review »
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