Trine 2: Complete Story

Trine 2: Complete Story pulls you in with a simple, satisfying rhythm: move through lavish fantasy landscapes, swap between three heroes, and turn each character’s strengths into a way past the next obstacle. This edition folds the main adventure, Goblin Menace, and the Dwarven Caverns content into one continuous package, so there is plenty to work through once the early puzzles start clicking.

Its side-scrolling platforming is at its best when you stop treating every problem as a test of reflexes and start experimenting. The puzzles can be playful, but occasional fiddly platforming and solution hunting can slow the pace. Still, the mix of action, cooperation-minded problem solving, and colorful fantasy travel makes this an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys a gentler puzzle-platformer with room to tinker.

Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first hour of Trine 2: Complete Story is easy to enjoy because it keeps putting small, inviting problems in front of you. You are moving through a 2D fantasy world, hopping across gaps, dealing with enemies, and switching among three heroes to find a route forward. It has the immediate feel of an action platformer, but the real hook is the pause before an obstacle: which hero should handle this, and what can you make of the tools at hand?

That rhythm gets stronger as you settle into the game’s puzzle-minded pace. A blocked path is rarely just a wall, and a difficult jump often asks for more than clean timing. Experimentation is part of the pleasure. When a solution comes together, it feels less like following an instruction and more like you noticed a useful possibility hiding in the scenery.

Not every stretch lands with equal grace. Platforming can become frustrating when you know the broad answer but struggle to execute it neatly, and some puzzles may have you poking at possibilities longer than you would like. This is not a relentless, precision-first platformer; patience and curiosity serve you better than rushing. If you enjoy trying ideas until the world gives way, those slower moments are a manageable price for the stronger puzzles.

Complete Story is the version to choose if you want a full run rather than a narrowly defined main campaign. The main game, Goblin Menace content, and Dwarven Caverns level are integrated into the larger adventure, giving you more fantasy stages and more opportunities to settle into its three-hero problem solving.

Graphics

Trine 2 uses a side-view, 2D scrolling perspective for its platforming and puzzles. The fantasy setting is colorful and ornate, with goblins and other dangers sharing the screen with the environments you must navigate. It is a handsome fit for a game built around moving through storybook-like locations one challenge at a time.

Story

The story is framed as a fantasy adventure, and it works chiefly as a reason to keep traveling onward through new places and hazards. Rather than demanding that you come for a dense plot, it keeps the focus on the trio of heroes and the next leg of their journey.

That lightness suits the game. You are unlikely to be playing for dramatic complexity, but the fantasy framing gives the puzzles more character than a sequence of abstract rooms would have. Goblins, caverns, and magical-looking obstacles all belong to the same broad adventure-book mood.

The Complete Story structure also helps the journey feel substantial. Since its added material is slipped into the main game, it is better approached as one extended campaign than as a base game followed by detached extras. If you want a compact fantasy tale, it may run longer than necessary; if you want more time in this world, the expanded route is the point.

Overall Experience

Trine 2: Complete Story is a likable puzzle-platformer that understands the value of giving you a problem, a few distinct ways to interact with it, and enough space to test an idea. Its action keeps things moving, while the puzzles provide the moments you will remember. The balance is not flawless, especially when execution gets in the way of a solution, but the game is consistently enjoyable when it trusts you to tinker.

Give it a chance if you want fantasy platforming with more thought than brute-force combat. It is particularly rewarding when you are in the mood to explore a little, switch perspectives between its heroes, and accept that the occasional snag is part of the process. Gamers after relentless speed or punishing precision may lose patience, but anyone who likes a colorful adventure built around playful obstacles will find plenty worth finishing.

At 7.2, this is a good, content-rich edition of a game whose strengths are clear from the start and whose frustrations never fully disappear. The payoff is a long, charming run of fantasy puzzle-platforming, with enough added material to make the Complete Story name feel justified.