Armed with the motto "everything new is well forgotten old", Friv5Online Games Studio decided to look at the cooperative The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords and make another game, "sharpened" for the joint passage. Tri Force Heroes was announced at E3 2015, and at Igromir you could “touch” it with your own hands. The novelty is based on the visual style of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds , and many of its elements are familiar to fans of the series: weapons, enemies and, of course, the main character Link. Rather, the main characters, because there will be exactly three of them.
The action of Tri Force Heroes takes place not in the usual for The Legend of Zelda Hyrule, but in a kingdom called Hytopia. The local king Tuft and all his subjects are obsessed with fashion, so it was a real shock for them that the princess with the telling name Styla was cursed and forced to wear completely unstylish clothes. Instead of passing a fashionable verdict on the heiress to the throne, Tuft turned to ancient prophecies and called for the help of three heroes who must remove the curse and restore harmony in the kingdom.
As you might guess from this too fabulous setting, we get the role of one of the saviors (and in the "single" mode - all three). Green, Red and Blue Links are united not only by a common cause, but also by one health for all. And how else - the whole game is tied to team interaction. The trinity of heroes together go through all sorts of locations (there should be a little more than thirty in total).
Each of the Links at the beginning of the level chooses one of three items, which vary depending on the dungeon. Somewhere it can be two bombs and a boomerang, somewhere - three bows. Having properly armed, the heroes must go through a series of puzzles and fight the enemies, and at the end of each zone they will have a battle with the "boss", to which they also need to find an individual approach. Dungeons are divided into sectors, the transition between which is carried out using a portal made in the form of Triforce.
One of the key mechanics of the new game is based on the ability of the heroes to stand on each other's shoulders and gather in a living tower - the so-called "totem". In this case, the upper Link can use objects, for example, shoot from a bow at an inaccessible button or throw a bomb far away, while the lower one walks and sets the direction. Such totems will have to be created throughout the game to solve puzzles that require a certain height. And by the way, it is precisely because of the height of the totem that Tri Force Heroes is designed for three: a tower of four Links, according to the developers, would be too high.
Such interaction between characters, by the way, is not new for the series - in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Link climbed onto the shield of a Phantom captured by the spirit of Zelda and, being on it, could fall into previously inaccessible places.
Another feature of Tri Force HeroesAre costumes. The fact that the three Linka are in the kingdom of fashionistas, of course, reflected in their wardrobe. Before each mission, the heroes have the opportunity to choose their clothes. In total, you can try on about forty outfits in the game, each of which endows its owner with unique abilities. Thus, Kokiri's clothing allows Link to shoot three arrows at once. The legendary dress, in turn, increases the chance of falling out of defeated enemies and broken items of hearts that restore health. Link in a woman's outfit looks very strange, but these are the Japanese, what to take from them ... The developers hope that the opportunity to dress up the hero will expand the audience of the new project and attract girls to it. But at the same time, for some reason, they did not think that Tri Force Heroes' style was too childish.will alienate many adults from her.
The multiplayer mode raises some concerns, if only by the fact that online partners can be caught completely different in style and skill of the game. Someone will rush forward, someone, on the contrary, will slow down the team. And if on "Igromir" with companions it was possible to quickly exchange a few words and correct general actions, then in online mode all communication will be reduced to eight icons of emotions on the touch screen. There will be no
voice chat in Tri Force Heroes, and those who are not happy with the prospects of cooperation with strangers can play with their friends in the same room - the main thing is that each of them has a 3DS. At the same time, you cannot go through dungeons together - there must be three users in multiplayer. But the authors did not bypass the loners:Tri Force Heroes can be completed without any help. In this case, we control one Link, and the two remaining ones turn into stationary dolls, between which you can switch at any time.
The Nintendo does not like to fix that, and so works well. "Zelda" on 3DS - completely remakes and rethinking of old parts. Tri Force Heroes, coming out in October, cannot be called anything new either . She took a little bit from the previous parts: from A Link Between Worlds - appearance, from Four Swords - co-op, from Spirit Tracks- totem mechanics. Multi-colored costumes, giving certain abilities, were almost always present in the series, though not in such numbers. However, all of the above does not mean that the game will not be an interesting adventure. That's just past it anyway, as usual, many gamers will pass, not seeing the most important thing behind a simple plot and a childish shell - fascinating puzzles.