Quick Look: Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power

Pun-meister Jason on the decks here.

Trine 3 looks rad

Hope this is better now than it looked on that UPF!

Yeah, it looked really bad back then. Curious if they managed to turn it around.

That pun initially went right over my head. And I've only had two beers.

Also, the knight using a big shield as princess Peach umbrella is insane.

Trine 3 looks like it makes a massive mistake in letting you have a 3D plane to move on. Half the time I was watching this I couldn't figure out where Brad actually was in the space, and was surprised when he finally landed (especially when using the floating knight). Maybe that's something you get a feel for as you play it?

Never played the first 2, but the QLs never grabbed me. I dig the look of this one, and the music was wonderfully serene. Reminded me of walking around in Skyrim. Could see myself trying it if it comes to consoles.

I'm glad it's not just me then -- it can be tough to judge your position on the ol' Z axis in some areas, especially when you're lining up tricky jumps.

I don't know if I dig Trine having a third dimension to confuse me, but I definitely dig the knight using his heavy-ass shield to somehow float over distances. Giggles every time.

Yeah, that's something I noticed in the UPF too. I can see why they did it to mix things up from the first two games, but it doesn't look like they nailed it to me. As much as I liked the first two games I think I might skip this one.

So sad. Absolutely adore Trine and Trine 2. This...doesn't look great.

These Trine games are so pretty, so boring

I played the shit out the first one, played a decent amount of the second, and probably won't play the third anytime soon.

That said, jesus, how do they keep besting themselves on such gorgeous level designs?

That world map is fucking beautiful!

Wait, you can just spawn the boxes as the wizard without drawing a box or is that some sort of console thing? Also, did they get rid of leveling up and unlocking abilities?

I shouldn't watch this video because of that deck but I'm a horrible person so I'll watch anyway.

Ugggghhh gating game progression with collectables Is THE WORST! Mario 3D World and Dragon Age: Inquisition I'm looking at YOU!

Are the enemies in the wizard level Dalek?

@teoball: I thought that as well

Looks amazing, but seems the gameplay should've stayed 2D.

The 3d movement is really putting me off this game. Too bad, 'cause I really like the aesthetic.

JESUS CHRIST at that deck line

@brad You can still make planks with the wizard, right? I feel like that would have solved your problems in the last wizard level you tried.

Wow, I didn't even know this game existed.

Thanks for the quicklook :)

Sheva's AI in Resi 5 was terrible. I couldn't get through it because of that. She was either practically hugging Chris, or got lost and was in the process of getting her head ripped off.

I should play me some trine. I also keep forgetting how puzzle centric these games are; it's kind of refreshing.

Played this alot when I got the Early Access version. Not bad. 3D was refreshing. Haven't been back for a while, but now that it's released will have to check it out again.

It's sad how Trine never gets much attention. This video and seeing it in the Humble Store are the only reasons I know it exists.

Not sure about the move to 3D, this video will help convince me. :)

Can you not make several boxes, different sized boxes or planks anymore?

Err, you had to collect stuff in the first two games to upgrade the characters. It was pretty much essential.

These games are graphically fantastic, but the actual gameplay never really grabbed me. Seeing this, the 3d perspective helps to improve the graphical aspect of the game, but to me makes the gameplay even less appealing.

Yer a wizard, Bradley.

I agree with Brad. The Trine games are fantastic and more people need to play them.

Looks cool, but I could have done without the 3D plane.

Yeah, they sure sound like Daleks, even though they are more similar in appearance (generally speaking) to Cybermen. Anyway always nice to see something hint at an appreciation of Dr. Who.

I thought that they looked more like those clockwork robots from that one episode that had a ship that was trying to repair itself with human parts and there were random time portals to Marie Antoinette. But that could be really really obscure reference.

Trine is super weird because it's a bizarro Blizzard template. Blizzard usually takes other games, adds their own spin to them, and makes them more accessible (Everquest to WoW, Dune2 to Warcraft, Warlords Battlecry to Warcraft3) but in the case of Trine, the Lost Vikings came out decades ago and to me is still the better-playing game. It doesn't look as nice as Trine, though, if that's your measure of a game.

I honestly can't look at the knight with his shield-float and not think of the Lost Vikings. It makes it a bit jarring every time Brad does it.

@relkin said:

That is a terrible single-player game.

I have over 100 hrs playing co-op. It's SO GOOD.

I've never liked Trine, not my thing.

Oh does Matt Rorie have a large plasma TV? I don't think that's been discussed on this site before :-P

Trine is much more fun in coop

Wait there's a Trine 3? When did this come out? Or get announced for that matter?

Those things sound like the Dalek

Trine 3: Bloom set to 11!

Okay. looking at pictures of those robots now and you are right, they look a lot like them.

Looks the same as it did in the early access preview

Yeah, this game still looks terrible. I seriously don't get why people like the Trine games, other than co-op pretty much always being fun, regardless of the quality of the game. Then again, I don't see anyone pining for another Army of Two and I really enjoyed the first two in co-op.

I love Trine 1 and 2 but this seems kinda disappointing. It almost looks like it was rushed out the door 80% complete or something.