Trinity Fusion

Review

Prime is the centre of the multiverse.  It controls the three worlds within it: The Hyperworld (a scientific and artistic world), the Overworld (an orderly, manufacturing world), and the Underworld (which has an abundance of resources and lives). Unfortunately, Prime has lost control, and the multiverse is collapsing.  The result is that the Ewer have now proclaimed themselves the superior beings for the Hyperworld, robots are now running the Overworld, and the energy that made the Underworld fertile has created massive monsters. The only way to salvage what was the multiverse is to fuse what is left of each world and hope for the best, in Trinity Fusion.

Trinity Fusion is an action roguelike 2D platformer game developed and self-published by Angry Mob Games on the 14^th of April, 2023, on the Steam platform. This game is currently on early access and might have significant changes upon its full release (version 1.0).

There are three characters, one for each world.  All three characters are the same and they each have similar weapons, a combination of melee, range and energy. The only variation is that each character is more skilled with a different weapon. 

In your first playthrough, you’ll only be able to play Altara, the character of the Underworld. You will be able to choose between all three characters when you reach two specific areas in one of your playthroughs.

Currently on early access, each world has two stages to complete and a boss fight. Each stage is average in length, well-designed, and full of action from the beginning until you reach the door at the end of the stage. Within each stage you’ll be able to pick up coins. You’ll need these coins for two purposes, to purchase new weapons and gizmos, and to open special workstations.  There are two types of workstations, one is free and the other needs coins. There are usually one or two paid and several free workstations per stage. When you open them, you can choose one of the two items from inside, which could be coins, weapons, perks or an artifact.

There are also several teleport stations spread around the stage, which you can use to teleport your character around the map to see if you’ve missed any secret rooms or forgotten to explore parts of the map. You probably won’t use them in the beginning, but they come in pretty handy when you know the stage. Another item you’ll come across once per stage is the Cursed Rock, where you can get either a free perk or a weapon.  It will, however, give your character a negative effect for a certain time, such as 30% less health until you either reach the end of the stage, or kill a certain number of enemies.

There are three specific chambers in each stage, one where you can purchase goodies (this chamber is usually close to the exit gate), one where you can combine your current character with one of the other world characters (giving you access to both characters’ energy weapons), and the last chamber where you’ll fight several enemies at close quarters and be rewarded at the end of the fight with a weapon, coins or a perk. You’ll find a red gate somewhere within the stage; you can’t access it right now, but it will be available in future updates.

One of the main aspects of platformer games is the combat system which I was really impressed with. As you have to evade enemies swiftly and then attack, I am always worried about the input from when you press the button and when the action is executed, as it can make the game unplayable. I am happy to report that the input is sharp and precise.

Trinity Fusion has over 60 different types of enemy, and three bosses fights. It might take you a few attempts to pinpoint each of the bosses’ moves and attacks before you can successfully kill them. I would appreciate the developer adding a few extra difficulty levels to spice up the game. Yes, there is permanent death, and you might die every now and then within the stage, depending on the perks that you collect, but as soon as you fuse two characters and build up your persona skills at the citadel, the difficulty decreases rapidly.

Graphically, the game looks great, and the story is pretty good too. As an early access, you expect to encounter issues, which I did in the form of enemies getting stuck in walls, but is wasn’t too frequent, which is great. But I had a crash to the desktop once while playing in one of the Hyperworld stages. Thankfully, the game saved my progress, and I could restart from the beginning of the stage without losing my coins and weapons.

Review written by THE CPT FROGGY for Zeepond.com

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