I’ll admit that there are a good few boss battles that are pretty enjoyable, but even they feel at odds with the overall texture of the game. It’s a piece of gameplay that doesn’t feel at home with the overall tone of the rest of Trine 4, leaving you to sigh before smashing buttons and jumping frantically in the hope that it’ll soon be over and you can get back to the exciting puzzle action. You see, every so often Trine 4 will be invaded by the Prince’s nightmarish creatures, and you will have to kill them in order to progress. There is one element to the gameplay that I’m not overly fond of though and that is with the combat and fighting mechanic.
It’s all a bit good in the way it drops new elements into the action.
TRINE 4 THE NIGHTMARE PRINCE ZIP
And in yet another great touch, new gameplay dynamics like magic portals that you can zip in and out of, or bouncy seals (yes you heard me right) to jump on, get introduced as you move along. Voila! There are probably other ways round the puzzles like this too, but that’s the joy of Trine 4. Then switch to the knight and hold your shield up so that the water bounces from there towards the wheel, hitting the block and flowing into the wheel. So how do you direct the water into the wheel to get it moving? The answer is to summon a block as the wizard and put it down.
There is water flowing from the ceiling but is a fair old distance from the wheel itself. For example, in one section you have a water wheel that opens up a doorway. Trine 4 also has a solid mixture of brain ticklers and skill testers as things progress. But then, you might replay the level a couple of times and find a completely different way of progressing through it. For instance, taking the magical route may work out well, but similarly so could utilising the brute force of the knight.
Many different options can be found by using a variety of skill and ability combinations from the various characters. What’s amazing about Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is that there isn’t just one way to complete a level.
TRINE 4 THE NIGHTMARE PRINCE UPGRADE
As you progress through the levels you gain upgrade points to enhance each of the character’s skill sets, so soon the wizard is summoning different shaped objects, the thief is firing fire arrows, and the knight is hitting things back with his lightning sword. Yet he can also use his shield as a platform for others, or to deflect beams of light in order to activate switches. The Knight can attack objects and clear obstacles – much like a knight does. She can also shoot to form rope walkways by attaching to items from across the screen. The thief, in turn, can use her bow and arrow to swing off rings high up, traversing through the levels that way. The wizard has the ability to summon boxes at will, which you can use in numerous ways, like as a platform to jump onto higher places, to jam a mechanism, or to activate a switch. In a single-player walkthrough, you swap between the three different characters with the flick of a button. Trine 4 plays out with a mixture of platforming elements and puzzle-solving opportunities. Each character has a particular set of skills that will help you in your journey throughout the entirety of the world. Thankfully you have the usual three Trine heroes available to you Amadeus the wizard, Zora the Thief and, my personal favorite, Ser Pontius the Knight. The Prince has since gone missing though, and needs to be found and that is where you come in, with a rescue mission your objective across the whole game. The story follows the Prince of the realm who has evoked dark magic so that his nightmares are coming to life in the real world. Fast forward a few years to here and now in 2019 though and Frozenbyte’s team of developers have used all the best bits of the first two Trines, but developed the franchise into the modern era with a focus on environmental design and further cooperative gameplay. The first two are heralded as classics in the gaming industry and have a huge fan base, while Trine 3 tried to experiment with the format a bit too much and wasn’t as well-received as the previous titles. Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is the next instalment to the Trine series, moving on from the three Trine games that lay before it.
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