This is a game where you’re required to backtrack a lot in order to explore areas you couldn’t get to before you had a certain character, should you wish to discover all the secrets and upgrades. This is where the game becomes a little like the LEGO games as each character has their own unique skill such as solving electrical locks, blasting through rocks, cutting through chains, and crawling through small vents. Bar a few predefined segments, you have free choice of which two characters to use from a roster of 12 (which are unlocked as you progress). The strategic part of this is choosing which characters you wish to play as. The game has lots of switch and platform puzzles where you have to swap between characters, telling the other to wait whilst you get into position, as well as stealth segments which are best done on your own as the CPU waits patiently. If you do decide to play on your lonesome, the CPU will take over player two as they follow you around like a good doggie and help you fend off any enemies they run into. That’s right, Stranger Things 3: The Game is essentially a co-op game at heart, having you control two characters if you have nobody within your local vicinity to play along with you. The game itself is quite deep when it comes to the actual gameplay side as you’ll not just be running around hitting creatures, you’ll also need to survive by crafting armour and accessories as well as strategically managing your team and solving co-op-based puzzles. In that respect, the developers have pulled this off as I love the art design of the environments, creatures, characters and all the references scattered around the place (just like in the show). Stranger Things 3: The Game is a retro-inspired isometric action game that has been aesthetically created with pixel-art in an effort to mimic older games whilst operating as a modern one. Personally, I binge-watched all of Season three before playing this game and it made me appreciate the game much more than I would have if I’d come into it blind (not the recommended way to play the game). This way you’ll not get ahead of yourself and you’ll get to explore Hawkins from a different perspective as you work your way through places you see on the show. Each chapter is almost in sync with the episodes in the show, so you could technically watch an episode then play the chapter, followed by another episode and chapter in the game. The game itself will last you around ten hours on your first playthrough if you’re playing by yourself and without any guide or hints. This is also apparent as all of the non-important interactions have been replaced by new NPC ‘quest givers’ and events in order to expand your playtime. One such event (without giving anything away) is when one character comes to help another – in the TV show there’s an emotional moment between the two which led up to this scene, the game just has them walk in, do their bit, then the scene ends – no context or depth at all.Īgain, this isn’t a dig at the developers, I imagine they weren’t given all the source material. This is what I believe because there are some moments within the game in which events happen with no context behind them or explanation as to why things were progressing in the way they were. Although, I imagine that BonusXP were only given information on what the key plot points were within each episode, with the majority of the minor interactions excluded from the documents they received. By that, I don’t mean it follows on from the end of the show, I mean it literally follows the TV show almost word for word in most of the key scenes. Stranger Things 3: The Game follows the TV show of the same name. I’ve got a few things to say about this game, both positive and negative, so let’s see how much I can say without revealing any spoilers or plot points… I would personally recommend you watch the TV show first, before playing this game, as there are certain things which presume prior knowledge, not only to seasons one and two, but season three as well. In this generation, the spin-offs and tie-ins have calmed down a little, but we still get the odd one or two releasing alongside that which they are in collaboration with, the latest of which being Stranger Things 3: The Game.ĭeveloped by BonusXP, the team behind the original Stranger Things Mobile game and the upcoming The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics, Stranger Things 3: The Game is almost a direct retelling of the latest season of the hit Netflix show. We saw this a lot last generation, with all of the Disney tie-ins and the beginning of Telltale Games’ many licencing deals – making a game based upon a popular franchise will usually result in initial guaranteed success. When I was younger, pretty much every successful film and TV show had its own video game based on the franchise.
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