Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia
Jump into the world of Trollhunters as Jim Lake Jr. and prepare to stop the Time-pocalypse in Trollhunters Defenders of Arcadia! Journey through unique worlds as your favourite characters, upgrade your armour…
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is an adventure developed by WayForward, released 24 September 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is an adventure game developed by WayForward and released in 2020. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the animated series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, Defenders of Arcadia is a side-scrolling action-platformer that returns to the world of the ordinary teenager turned unlikely hero, Jim Lake Jr. Chosen to wield a legendary amulet and stand as the Trollhunter, protector of both humans and the hidden world of trolls, Jim once again finds his town of Arcadia threatened by a looming catastrophe. This time the danger takes the form of the Time-pocalypse, a crisis that fractures time itself and endangers everything he holds dear. Joined by his loyal friend and ally Claire Nunez, whom players can also control, Jim sets out to set things right, battling trolls, goblins, dragons, and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the DreamWorks series
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is the 15th of 15 entries we hold in the DreamWorks series. It arrived 5 years after Kung Fu Panda: Showdown of Legendary Legends. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 52 is 2 points above the series average of 50. The highest-rated entry is Kung Fu Panda at 73.
How it was received
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia launched on 24 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Genshin Impact. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact.
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