Trine

Trine is out on Steam
http://trine-thegame.com/site/



Hells bells its a bloody good looking puzzle platformer with saucy RPG leanings. Well worth the effort. I believe its coming to XBLA and PSN but sometime in the future.

Each character really does have clear and usuable powers, with the bow toting ranger girl being the best for getting around the play area with her agility and her grappling line (bionic commando style). The physics solutions to some of the puzzling and experience collection is something to behold, and with the clockwork crate conjuring wizard who can levitate and pull world items theres a lot of jiggling and fiddling you can do to the environment setup. Lastly you have the rather rotund beefy shield and steel toting warrior, who has the pleasure of laying waste to the attackable enemies, or smashing his way through boarded up entrances, or blocking incoming missile attacks. Switching between each of them is a dream, hotkeyed to 1,2 and 3. And you can do it mid-air if you're feeling twitchy skillful. If death for one of them ensues you can resurrect at half health at the next checkpoint orb, similar to Little Big Planets mechanism.

Utterly beautiful to look at, and really a physics based pleasure to play, plus you can level up various skills as your characters gain experience.. I'll be buying this at least on a console just to see how it translates, because the grappling can be a bit tricky with mouse and keyboard controls, takes a bit of mastering..