Not only that, but your one refuge, your one bastion of solitude – the humble video game – has been bastardised to the point where every Tom, Dick and Harry is waving a white oblong penis around, making your favourite plumber jump through hoops and calling it entertainment. You work long hours, put up with more shit than a sewage worker, and have to pretty much take whatever’s flung in your direction without question. The world is an evil place totally and utterly crammed full of bastard coated bastards with a hard-bastard centre. Fast forward twenty-five years and by Christ, have we had a wake up call. You may have been young and naive, but you already knew that games were supposed to be fun.
Remember that time when you were still really young and you were given a video game? A brand spanking new one, all shiny in its wrapper, full of promise, joy and utter brilliance? Nothing could dissuade that feeling that you’d achieved total Nirvana (no, not Kurt Cobain… Google it, kids) just by playing a video game. The Japanese version (TRINE 2 三つの力と不可思議の森 – or Trine 2: Mittsu no Chikara to Fukashigi no Mori) is the same as Trine 2: Director’s Cut content-wise, but the game has been fully localized into Japanese (Voice and Text).Mac OS X, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Linux, Windows PC (reviewed) Trine 2: Director’s Cut – exclusively for Wii U – features new enhancements and gameplay polish, along with the Goblin Menace add-on campaign and a new “Dwarven Caverns” level, in one big package, totaling in 20 levels full of fun and exciting gameplay. Play on your own or transfer the experience to multiplayer – up to three players can embark on a co-operative multiplayer journey in online or local “couch” mode. Take on the role of one of the Three Heroes – the Wizard, the Thief and the Knight – who all have their own personalities and skills.
The game features physics-based puzzles using fire, water, gravity and magic wicked goblins to fight against and wondrous fairy-tale lands as backdrop to the adventure. Trine 2: Director’s Cut takes you on an adventure through magical lands in this sidescrolling game of platforming, action and puzzles.