Regardless of how you feel about the Trolls franchise, video games are a great fit for it. Pop, Rock, Techno, and other genres were the basis for Trolls World Tour’s creation of regions, which is essentially the blueprint for any global platformer.
Because felt, fabric, and glitter are all prominent components in those areas, which are composed of real-world textiles, the platforms you jump onto have a charming Little Big Planet feel to them. And lastly, the music. A music that will have you tapping your feet is essential because you will be hopping around for hours.
DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue is adept at playing these cards since it is aware that it has them. I adore the Rock Land’s tight denim, leather stitching, and sporadic sewn-on patches.
A massive palm blocks your route in a thrilling moment, but a guitar riff later, it gives you a path through with a demon-horn salute. Every one of the four regions has a different version of those fabrics.
The songs are great, so it depends on how much repetition you can take. However, the music repeats a bit too often for my taste. Each region has a single tune that plays on cycle for around an hour.
You can also stand behind the decks and play a rhythm action part utilising a different, equally awesome tune once every region (too infrequently; we would have liked more). Had there been more funding available for stealing from the Trolls music, it would have been flawless.
The game map is the next item. It’s larger than you might anticipate for a licenced game, encompassing four distinct places from the movie, each with three stages. In terms of variety, it’s just right. Every level has a distinct theme, such as Pop Land’s bouncing on loud speakers or Funk Land’s rotating vinyl.
Compared to other kid-friendly games we’ve played, this one ranks in the top 25% or so in terms of ambition. Around every corner you will probably encounter a new adversary, challenge, feature, or area. Trolls takes the ball and hulas with it when other licenced games tend to sit back and enjoy themselves.
Parents may want to bear in mind the following points when it comes to DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue. To begin with, this has nothing to do with the film. Your kids might not be satisfied if you’re hoping for a real tie-in. It narrates a spin-off story in which Chaz, the jazzy smooth guy from the Trolls World Tour, utilises his hypnotising abilities to subdue every troll.
It’s important to remember that this is a four-player game, and that four is preferable. The experience is better if you have four pads, or even just a couple. That’s because DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue is surprisingly difficult, which brings us to point three.
If there are four of you, the challenge decreases, but our eight-year-old struggled a lot, and our five-year-old quit up after the first level. The spikes in this game are as durable as Barb’s dog collar.
I’ll put up my hands and admit that, as a games journalist in my 40s, I too had a terrible time with several aspects of DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue. You can laugh all you want, but we contend that your laughter misses the intended audience.
It must have occurred to someone at GameMill Entertainment that DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue was a little strange.
Review 2 of Dreamworks Trolls Remix Rescue
It’s harder than it should be to rescue DreamWorks Trolls Remix.
We would identify “over-ambition” as the issue. Big ideas abound in DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue. Every corner presents a fresh aspect of the game, as we’ve already discussed, and we think that’s fantastic.
However, there’s a persistent feeling that the game designers were unable to keep up with the innovations, and as a result, every notion proved to be more flimsy and unproven than it ought to have been. We assume that the movie’s release date being synchronised with ours didn’t help either.
At the conclusion of each zone comes the best illustration of this. When a boss appears, the 3D game world abruptly transforms into a 2D race against the boss. The player must keep up with the slow, fixed-perspective camera movement while dodging fireballs and tremors. It sounds amazing, a radical departure from the norm in cinematic storytelling that defies all previous conventions.
However, it isn’t. It’s awful. Even though it’s two-dimensional, it still uses depth to avoid obstructions, but you can no longer sense depth. Wall leaps, platform jumps, and hair-grapples all become ridiculously challenging. We suffered the shame of dying sooner than our children did once they handed us the pad.
It’s a great concept with terrible execution, and DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue will always bear that on its gravestone. The enemy poses a challenge. They are abundant, each with a specific assault, and because they are from Skull Island: Rise of Kong, their wealth is an absolute scandal.
However, we discovered that they were gorgeous and approaching us without any apparent pattern, so that must have meant that we had less time to bake for each of them. It felt too arbitrary to be rewarding when attackers knocked precious health pips off us even when they were far away and hadn’t launched a projectile.
Particularly, the parts where a forcefield descends and you have to battle waves of monsters are a pocket nightmare.
The list is endless. The levels are difficult to read since, once again, they are overflowing with visual cues. It’s difficult to distinguish between decor and platform, collectibles, and sheer decoration, though. Though short platforms appear to be jumpable, you are blasted back by unseen walls.