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Trine - start of the academy hallways

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“The rendering is gorgeous! it may be a 2d platformer but things move as though they are in 3d and there is physics and... squee!”

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Trine (PC)

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Release Date: 02/JUL/09

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deathscythehellcustom said over 3 years ago

i have never played or seen this game before

13xforever said over 3 years ago

It's called 2.5D. And yes, this game is pretty much awesome on so many levels. The graphics, the story (especially I liked narrative between levels), physics puzzles and co-op.

My only complaint was that the Knight is not very useful when you have Thief and Magician at your disposal. These two are pretty much everything I used throughout all the game.

Mishy said over 3 years ago

looks fancy :P

13xforever said over 3 years ago

@deathscythehellcustom: It's for PC and PS3 and it's very fun little game that you should play (at least, try the demo).

LordXenophon said over 3 years ago

It looks a lot like SaGa Frontier.

snipergirl said over 3 years ago

It's gorgeous! And the use of physics puzzles is a nice touch too.

Interesting how many games like this come to the PC from the PS3 or similar

13xforever said over 3 years ago

@snipergirl: Actually, this particular game were released on PC long before it was ported to PS3 ;)

snipergirl said over 3 years ago

@13xforever actually that's even MORE interesting!

It's nice to see the comeback of some of the old, familiar genres :)

TigersharkIV said over 3 years ago

@LordXenophon It does share a lot of visual ascetics with Saga Frontier

Tjuhl said over 3 years ago

This is art. In this game (Trine), every single screen looks like a living painting and is outright gorgeous.

bettadud said over 3 years ago

The colors Duke, the COLORS!!!

Bonemane said over 3 years ago

Yeah 2d platformers have been working on this 3d background stuff lately and I'm glad to see it's coming along well. If I had a better PC I'd be playing this game for sure.

orangedoll said over 3 years ago

sounds awesome :)

dowekeller said over 3 years ago

yeah 2d graphics can be every bit as good looking as 3d on modern hardware. This is very pretty.

wastelander75 said over 3 years ago

that's beautiful

LordXenophon said over 3 years ago

On older platforms, the 2D games often looked far better than the 3D games. I'm sure you're old enough to remember when the only way to get the processor time for 3D was to give up useless things like color and opacity.

bettadud said over 3 years ago

yeah SNES sidescroller games did look better than the N64 blocky/fuzzy ones.

LordXenophon said over 3 years ago

I was thinking even farther back than that.

Do you remember when we had fancy, 8 bit color graphics for our 2D platformers, but a typical 3D game was just green and made of straight lines?

Tullioladulce said over 3 years ago

@snipergirl I'd heard about this game a month or so back, but had forgotten to check it out. Your pic made me get the demo, so thanks for the screenshot! :D

bettadud said over 3 years ago

I remember those days. It brings back memories....

LordXenophon said over 3 years ago

Yeah. Memories of a long forgotten reason, other than laundry, for carrying a roll of quarters.

snipergirl said over 3 years ago

Speaking of 2d to 3d... it certainly applies to RTS's from not that long ago.

IMHO, starcraft is stunning compared with warcraft 3 which I think looks pretty crappy.

wastelander75 said over 3 years ago

two of the best shooters were 2d (with 1 being semi 2d adn 3d at the same time)

Contra and Shadow Complex