Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy Review (PlayStation 5)

For this Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy Review, The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!

Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy Review Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 15.05GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
• Puzzle platformer gameplay.
• Can rebind controls.
• Accessibility options include – subtitles, letterbox for subtitles, letterbox opacity, and speaker name.
• Can set levitate to hold or toggle.
• Collectibles – letters, tidbits, and fashion.
• Supports both online and offline Co-op.
• Two ways to play – unlimited (any combo of heroes including dupes) or classic (only 1 of each character).
• Four difficulties – Easy, normal, hard, and custom.
• Custom difficulty lets you tweak puzzle difficulty (normal/hard), resurrection cost (free to lose everything), and damage (enemy health/enemy damage).
• Customizable characters – name color, outfit color, clothing accessory, and hat.
• Fast loading times.
• Excellent narration that is once again performed by the same voice guy.
• The game is presented like a storybook.
• Cutscenes are a mix of in-game and rendered scenes.
• The bow settings – aim assist strength, firing method, and use of the unmodified right stick.
• Some of the best lighting in the business.
• A 2D side scroller with fully animated 3D backdrops amd animated foregrounds.
• A real visual treat.
• Brilliant soundtrack.
• Familiar controls.
• Solo play has just one character on screen at a time.
• When playing solo you can swap between characters with a button press.
• Headphone mode option.
• Can turn the audio to mono.
• Constant checkpoints.
• The movement is tight and fluid, the best it has felt in the series.
• Much more in-depth and clever traversal tricks at play.
• Physics at work and feel realistic whether it be a cube falling on a plank or cutting a piece of rope and momentum taking over.
• There will be parts where a scene is playing out and you are in the background moving around.
• Emote/quick chat wheel.
• Can customize any character in the pause menu.
• You can use your hooks to swing around but also pull crates and even tether objects together.
• Finally feels like they have nailed the bow feel and usage as it’s really quick and accurate.
• Quick selection option to make tethering and selecting a target a lot easier, it’s just a button press.
• You can skip cutscenes.
• Full voice work for each character.
• Despite all being 2D the game does an amazing job of making it look and feel like a 3D game.
• The whole game loop is that you have a band of characters each with unique abilities Amadeus is a wizard so he can levitate objects and conjure up blocks and planks. Pontius can use a shield to block projectiles and break crates, whereas Zoya has a bow and can jump high.
• Postcard quality vistas.
• Boss-like encounters.
• Pontius has abilities making him more versatile like being able to charge and slam the ground.
• Amadeus can conjure items with a button press. (In the older games you had to draw the shape)
• So many different ways to solve a puzzle.
• There are five acts to play though.
• You can replay levels and each one shows how many exp potions you have left to collect.
• So much fun to play.
• Hard to put down.
• The main menu has a space where you can practice with characters and just mess around.
• Grand checkpoints let you transfer all earned exp potions and turn them into skill points.
• Each character has their own skill tree, abilities are unlocked through progress but all can be upgraded.
• The combat initially is very hack-and-slash but later on, you can get abilities to add more spice and variety including making other characters able to hold their own.

Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy Review Cons:

• In Single Player, I couldn’t edit each character individually.
• No colorblind support.
• The font can be hard to make out and there is no setting to change it.
• Re uses a lot of puzzles from previous games.
• Starts the same as all the other games in that you are introduced to each character one by one.
• Tedious little sections that feel like filler.
• The camera is not always ideal, especially with out-of-sight Collectibles.

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Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy:

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Developer: Frozenbyte

Publisher: THQ Nordic

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