Hope Hornsby, Analog Addiction "As Rat King’s TRI: Of Friendship and Madness begins, a mysterious monk asks you to help him find his missing friend, the fox. His deceptively innocent request sends you on a first person adventure through the topsy-turvy dungeons and temples of the Odd Gods. The game’s soundtrack and brightly colored level designs work well together to create a unique and engaging world.
TRI offers 16 fairly expansive levels, and while each level contains three fox statues that you must find in order to advance, there are also smaller golden totems hidden around each map. If you are a completionist like I am, you may find yourself wandering one map for over an hour. Because of this, it can be a bit difficult to keep track of the story, which is told in cut scenes between levels. The story also does not seem to have much of an impact on gameplay aside from a glimpse of the missing fox every once in a while."
As of lately, the focus from most developers and publishers are shooters, survival horrors or action adventure with a little bit of innovation, be it good or bad, and almost nothing else. The once glorious puzzle game genre, home to classics like the Portal series among others, spanned multiple games a couple or so years ago.
Rat King Entertainment’s beautiful first-person exploration platformer TRI comes out on October 9th and so a release trailer is now ready for your viewing pleasure.
Chris writes:
"I love a good puzzle game. I especially love a good puzzle game that does something new and interesting. Portal, and the subsequent Portal 2, were knockouts that kept me coming back for more time and time again. When I sat down last month to take a look at Rat King Entertainment’s first effort, TRI, I instantly felt the same joy and intrigue as the first time I picked up a portal gun. I’ve had the pleasure of playing it lately, and it makes Portal look like a walk through the park."
