Sunday, January 15, 2006

Trapt (PS2)

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Yuuki again, here to do my Review of Trapt. A gift from the god that is Tecmo. Ok so the basic outline of the game is your a helpless princess trying to discover the truth behind a murder, a cult, and herself. The game is called Trapt because she seems to always be stuck in a bad situation and has to fight her way out using...*drum roll* Traps!

Gameplay: Alright this is how it works you set traps and once they are charged you try to lure enemies onto them, you can guess what happens next. There are 3 types of traps: Wall which are mostly projectiles like arrows and buzzsaws. Floor which most hold foes for other traps like the vacuum floor and the bear trap. Last are ceiling traps these are the heavy damage but they are hard to aim, these are things like the Iron Ball and the Devil Fist. Each type of trap is activated by one of your buttons Square Triangle and X, Circle opens the setup for the traps. This inventive and orginal even though traps are the only offensive thing you can do. 5/5

Story:
You play the role of Allura a princess framed with murdering her father. She flees the kingdom with her maid Rachael. While its quite obvious that its all the evil step-mother's doing no one believes you and thus you are hunted. Rachael takes you the Royal families Manor which happens to be inhabitted by an evil fiend who possesses your arm and gives you the power of Traps. As the story goes the plot gets thick with vengeance and betrayal. You'll never know whose a friend and who isn't. 4/5

Graphics:
This was done well. Characters important to the story have beautifl costumes while unimportant characters or fodder look a little recycled but are still different enough to be enjoyable. Trap animations are done well and the added bonus of the nice matrix like cutscene everytime an enemy gets caught in one your traps is nice too. If your crafty enough some levels have special giant traps that have nice cutscenes of people being dragged through gears and such. The game is pretty gorey though. 5/5

Sound:
The audio was good, all the voice acting which there is alot of is done in Japanese. Music wasn't very prominent though it also wasn't all that important. SE was good, rattling chains the sounds of bones being shattered and such. Not alot to be said about this department it was kinda just done and done. 3/5

Replay:
The game has 4 ending, 3 of which unlock special bonus traps there is also this nice feature called side story which lets you play a battle before you start each story battle. There is one before every level and there are 2 sets of these which alternate as you beat and rebeat the game. You also can't get all the traps on your first time through and game is honestly enjoyable enough that you well want to play it atleast twice. 4/5

Overall:
Overall this is a really good game that has been overlooked. Its orginal and inventive, don't get turned off by that. The story is pretty good lots of great plot twists and surprises. I've played through it twice now and I am debating a 3rd time. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes and engaging story and a good violent game. 5/5

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