Concept Reel - A Toy Channel or a Gaming Channel? What do you Want to See?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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3,415 words · ~17 min read
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nope oh so let's move this microphone we
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have an idea actually to be specific I have an
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idea it was definitely not your idea
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okay I approved the idea which does not
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mean it's your idea that I originally had nope definitely mine first anyway
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what we can all agree on is that my idea
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of us potentially starting another channel uh with more of a focus on
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instead of Technology something else
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because you guys have been asking I mean it's probably their idea more than anything else they've been asking us for
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this for like years um okay I don't remember where we're
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going with this anyway he wants a channel that's more oriented towards
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gaming and I want a channel that focuses on like toys and collectibles and crap
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so what we did is well I also want that I well and I want a gaming channel too I
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guess sort of um so we created two
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trailers for you guys or what are they called pilots pilots two pilots for you
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guys one where I take a toy that I bought and I make sort of the older blog
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Style video and then when were you I don't know what you did I I played a
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game and I did like a short review and it's it's like a budget style thing so I
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found a game that's on a really good sale that is really
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good good for you all right so without further Ado guys you can watch both of
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those videos we're going to have them here back to back and then when you're done we want you to
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vote for how you want us to
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proceed okay so this thing showed up on Mast drop I don't know if it's
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technically a toy because it's actually pretty dangerous if you were to fire the
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Bug Assault into your eye you would uh you would not be having a good time so
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first off couple fun facts about flies number one is flies poop every four to
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five minutes number two is they can carry diseases as innocuous as well no
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they're all kind of terrible including like leprosy and stuff so the Bug
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Assault is the fly hunting insect hunting I mean they claim the thing can
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even kill stuff like roaches at close range shotgun that fires well salt so
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let's start with what they have to say for themselves here's something I haven't done in a very long time uses
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ordinary table salt this I can verify you can see I have the top loaded up
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with some ordinary table salt which claims it can do about 50 shots before
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reloading and you can actually monitor the levels right through that little
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viewfinder right there all right no batteries required No in fact there are
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no batteries because the thing is powered like
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this yeah that's right spring loaded love it and then you go ahead and
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release that safety catch right there on the side in order to have it be ready to
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go all right so the trigger itself is pretty self-explanatory once you get that going if you don't release the
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safety catch it simply will not fire so I
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personally wouldn't mind having a faster refire rate but I understand why they
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did did this because the salt comes out at a rate that is fast enough to kill a
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fly at about 3 ft or so they claim so
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you know shooting your hand with it you can see that actually left a scratched
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up white mark on my hand like it actually quite hurts if you to
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accidentally discharge this thing into your eye or your mouth or whatever else
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you might not go Kurt Caine on it but it wouldn't be comfortable that's for sure
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all right so it has a pop-up sight indicator does not splatter the fly this
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is important because you don't want fly guts all over the place although one
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thing I noticed was I uh I had a I had
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here let's let's go for a walk so I had a um I had a fly land in my wife's
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mixing bowl and I was like oh cool I
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just got this thing I'm I'm going to be all
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like boom right into the mixing bowl unfortunately mixing bows are basically
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like a giant fly halfpipe so I hit the fly probably died it wasn't flying
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around anywhere after that and uh I
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don't know where it went so it's a complete fly somewhere and it's a good
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thing it wasn't pieces of fly cuz there was food nearby because you know mixing
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bowl and all that so let's see if we can find some bugs to hunt shall we so our
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fly Hunting Expedition got cut a little short I don't know if you can see the
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police cruiser and the officers behind me but uh apparently for all the uh for
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all the not looking like a gunness of this we walked only about three or four
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blocks and someone called them so uh so
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there you go guys we're going to have to instead go for our backup plan which was
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a sacrificial uh victim that I caught earlier when I was testing the thing now
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before I before we get to that I do want to talk about the build quality of it a
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little bit for what I paid on mass drop um it's actually built surprisingly well
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like the mechanism has a good sound and it actually feels as good as it sounds
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the um the weight of the unit is really nice the uh the molded handle is quite
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comfortable and then the trigger has a very satisfying not too easy but not too
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difficult to pull quality to it that uh apparently convinced someone it's a real
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gun also once you prime it this little sight here I'll just show you guys how
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it works that sight pops up and it's I
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don't know it's accurate enough to use I'd say so from testing it earlier you
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know what 3 feet guys probably not a lot of the time particularly outside where
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wind's a factor but inside your your mileage may vary but from about a foot
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and a half away yeah yeah I was able to uh I was able to get a successful kill
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earlier the one in here though is actually alive so here I'll show you our
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there's our victim fly so you can see he's moving around in there little does
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he know I feel like I'm like 10 right
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now and honestly it was a very awkward conversation with the with the cops
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there that was like that was like super awkward okay so we're only going to have
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one crack at this let's find out where he is all right here we go here goes the
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Bug Assault about a foot and a half away
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boom and there you have it the fly is
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intact as advert tized maybe not dead yet but certainly stunned to the point
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where he won't be bothering you or your mother or your sister anymore and I
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guess that's all there is to really say about it guys be careful with it I think
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I've said don't shoot it at your eyes enough times but even from kind of that
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distance it's got a bit of a like it's got a bit of a sting to it
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um thanks for watching this video about
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the Bug Assault original salt gun don't forget to whatever it is I would do as
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an outro for these videos we're not really finished the concept yet check
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this out here's some like horrible
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water oh safety every time there we
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go boom actually that gives you a pretty
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good pretty good idea of how much uh oomph this has to it so I'm about two
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and a half feet away right now boom there you go so it shoots they advertise
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a pinch of salt no way you guys it's more than that so you will make a bit of
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a mess if you're firing this inside all the time this is going to
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hurt fires about that much salt that is that is a big pinch Maybe got like meat
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fingers going on over there right Welcome to The Bargain Bin asterisk
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temporary name we're not really sure yet the game we're going to be covering today is Trine 2 it is currently
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available on both Steam and Humble Bundle and I'm sure a few other stores
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for about $2.99 and its predecessor Trine 1 is available for about 99 cent
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which is an incredibly good price for this game this game is a good solid
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single player two-player and three-player Co-op game where you play
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three characters and that is actually why it is such a good co Co-op game
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because when you're playing single player you play all three characters
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when you're playing two-player Co-op you still play all three characters just
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with two people and when your three player co-op you play all three of those
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characters individually and you can swap in between first up is Pontius the
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Knight protector of the realm and Main compat in this party of three he has
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some utility based on his throwing Hammer which he can use to smash down
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things in the distance or break down walls up close and he can also utilize
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his shield to protect himself and the party from projectiles or anything else
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that might be flowing in their Direction next up is Zoya the thief a personal
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favorite of mine she uses a bow arrows and a grappling hook that makes her seem
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like Spider-Man to Traverse the map and her main utility is actually her
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movement later on in the game she gets a a gravity field type ability which
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allows her to move even more easily along with her entire party which is
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nice and she is quite deadly in combat as well last up is Amadeus the wizard
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his focus is on utility and his utility is based around creating geometrical
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shapes like boxes and planks and then using those to manipulate the
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environment he can create ramps for you he can create tons of other things and
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he can also use his telekinesis to move things around so say there's something
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in the environment that needs to be moved he can do that even if it's too
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heavy for one of the other characters or he can move his own shapes he's also not
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useless in combat though he can put enemies in cages rendering them fairly
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useless or he can literally just pick them up and move them out of the way of
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the battle while in the game Bastion the narrator makes you feel like you're
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actually writing your own story and trying to it makes it feel like you are
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a part of a greater larger story and that is punctuated by the fact that each
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chapter load is based on literally reading the lines off of the start of a
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chapter in a book trying to suspend your disbelief early enough on so that when
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Pontius gallops over a ledge it doesn't seem unrealistic despite the fact that
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he's wearing massive full plate mail and has a massive hammer and shield and
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sword with him as well it's believable and it doesn't bother you because it
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feels natural and expected easily one of my most favorite things about this game
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is that it's a puzzle game but there's not one rigid solution that cannot
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change as a solution to the problem there's there's many you can be as crazy
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as you want and I know that many times throughout this game I am sure that we
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were not doing what was intended to be done to solve that problem but that's
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okay that's actually celebrated to a certain point so when you and your
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friends are screwing around and the the Wizard makes some weird Contraption of
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geometrical shapes and the the Warriors bounce ing some weird light thing off
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something else and the thief is swinging around like crazy if you guys do happen
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to get through then you got through and that's awesome it doesn't force you into
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this very cookie cutter way of doing things another thing that I really like
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about the puzzles in this game is that they're not all the same you know that
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feeling when you're playing Skyrim when you get to your fourth claw door and you
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look in the bottom of the claw and you're like okay I get it or you get to
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any of your other puzzles in Skyrim and it's just spinning the thing to match
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the thing that you can see somewhere else you're like okay I get it you know
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you never really have that feeling with trying to everything's always different
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and I have to say that about the expansion too now I said expansion you
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might be like there's no expansion for trying to there's a DLC but I believe it
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should honestly be called an expansion the goblin Menace is one of the best
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dlc's I have ever downloaded and actually feels like you're getting an
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entirely new game if this was actually titled try 3 I wouldn't be too surprised
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I would laugh and say that's an expansion but I wouldn't be too surprised with the modern state of the
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gaming industry and DLC has a terrible name so I'm going to call the goblin
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Menace an expansion try 2 has been criticized for its combat although I
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question whether or not those critics have actually played through the game in its entirety or they were just rushing
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through the game as fast as they could on easy if you move the difficulty up to
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medium or hard whatever is best for you and actually play the combat as if it
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was difficult it becomes much more different when you start off the game it
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starts as a hack and slash on any difficulty but as you get a little bit
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further in it becomes more complex the enemies become more difficult and you
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have more abilities you have to utilize your characters properly along with
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utilizing your abilities properly and the environment around you to actually
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survive and this makes it much more fun and also massively rewarding the combat
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in this game is extremely malleable it allows you to do whatever the heck you
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want with it and it actually encourages it if you want to be super aggressive
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you can run around killing everyone or if a goblin throws a spear and hits his
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buddy and you back off they might fight each other to the death that's the kind
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of stuff that can happen in this game it's very random and very open and I
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love that part of it just like the puzzles the combat in this game does not
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feel cookie cutter from physics kills to just plain stabbing someone in the face
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the combat can go from serious to hilarious in a matter of seconds while
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maintaining difficulty feeling natural and without skipping a beat I can only
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find a few cons in my entire playthrough the first of which would be ability
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balance I found late in the game with the thief when you get the gravity Arrow
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things get a little wonky if you place the arrow properly in certain areas you
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can almost avoid entire puzzles and that doesn't seem right although I do wonder
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I'm not necessarily avoiding it this is using mechanic to get around the puzzle
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so is this just another way of solving it like when you're playing the Wizard
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and you increase the amount of boxes you can get sometimes you can stack a bunch of boxes and get around a puzzle that
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way maybe that's how it works but I wasn't too enthralled by it another
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thing is character balance the Knight doesn't seem very useful for large
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portions of the game because the game isn't 100% combat focused so in some
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puzzles he just kind of sits there but then later on in the game you unlock
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certain things like throwing his hammer which makes him a little bit more useful
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but at the same time the thief has an explosive Arrow uh I don't know in the
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in in the goblin Menace expansion he does become a lot more useful because
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there's more combat also there's a few things that the explosive Arrow don't
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seem to do anything to while throwing his hammer does affect it another thing
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is that while you can play the game in Co-op playing in single player although
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it is a very similar experience with the same amount of characters is very
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different in multiplayer you have to to construct Contraptions and whatnot to
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get through different puzzles but you have to get everyone through in single
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player you only have to get one person through because when you switch characters you stay in the same spot
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getting one person through can sometimes be a lot easier or a lot harder than
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getting all three people through and that makes it very interesting for
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platform compatibility it works on basically everything except for nextg
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consoles so it works on Linux Mac PC PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 it's $3 like
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I said earlier its predecessor Trine one is about 9 and I know you can get some
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multi packs on Steam for about four or five bucks so you can play with all your
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anything that's probably takeen probably
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