Trine Breathes New Life into Sidescroller Genre
Frozenbyte, the team behind Shadowgrounds, are moving out of the shooter genre to try out something a little more challenging and innovative. The team has been hard at work trying to breathe new life into the sidescroller genre by emphasizing teamwork, and giving each player a unique set of abilities.
The game is [shal]co-op[/shal] at heart, with the inclusion of a Magician, Thief, and Knight. Though the Magician is the star of the show with his telekinesis abilities, he still relies on the other three to progress through the levels. The Thief, for example, can grapple objects, while the Knight can destroy obstacles. And there’s some secondary abilities thrown as well, such as the Thief’s ability to slow down time, and the Knight’s ability to protect the group using his shield.
While the game will ship with only local [shal]multiplayer[/shal], online play will be available on day one as a downloadable [shal]patch[/shal]. The other interesting thing is that though you control one character in Solo Mode, you can still switch between characters on the fly, a la Lego Indiana Jones.
We’ll keep you up to date as this PSN/PC title nears its completion date. So make sure to check back on PlayStation LifeStyle for more updates. New gameplay screens are available for your viewing pleasure below.
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15 Responses to “Trine Breathes New Life into Sidescroller Genre”
This looks really good.
looks nice, can’t wait to see more on this one
can’t wait for this one, the footage looked amazing
game looks very good.
Frozenbyte did not develop either Stardust or Super Stardust HD.
looks pretty
Thanks for pointing the out, dolson. It’s been corrected.
This isn’t a PSN download? Count me out…
I thought/wanted this to be a PSN download. I just don’t know if I can justify a non LBP multiplayer platformer to be on a disk. Disk games don’t get played as much as I want because I keep having to swap disks…
What’s so hard about porting this to PSN?
Makai, what are you talking about? Yeah, this is a PSN/XBLA/Steam title.
Oooh, looks pretty.
DeAno, I don’t think it’s coming out on XBLA. At least, they hadn’t announced it yet. So for now, at least, it’s PSN/PC only.
I think MakaiOokami was confused by the wording of the game releasing with local multiplayer, and there being a zero-day patch for online play… I am not really sure why that is, and can see how it would sound like a disc-based game.
easily a day one buy! i love psn games! thanks for the heads ups on the online patch draisey!
Looks cool.
The very source that we’re using confirmed its XBLA release.
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