For franchise, which is so deeply rooted in the game culture, is honestly surprising Tron In a modern video game environment, he has no great presence. Although there were more than 10 Tron games over the past 40 years, most of these titles, as TRON disks and TRON: Solar SalerThey are either quite old or largely forgotten. A neon-renowned virtual world Tron is to a large extent perfect setting for video game, but only a few Tron The games were successfully adapted to the franchise of the interactive medium. This means that the last addition to Tron series, TRON: Catalysthas fulfilled this task better than most others.
TRON: Catalyst is the game 2.5D isometric action-adventure, created by Bithell Games in cooperation with Disney and Big Fan Games, a subsidiary of Devolver Digital. Unlike other recent titles based on Disney properties, this game is mostly linear and has a relatively limited range. TRON: Catalyst It takes only about 10 hours to complete and its playback value is relatively limited. However, this does not necessarily mean that the game is bad. On the contrary, it is actually quite fun and its simplified approach to the design of games is in the industry full of 50 hours of RPG monsruothes.
TRON: You can enjoy the catalyst without knowing anything about Tron
IN TRON: CatalystPlayers play as exo, a female courier who works in the capital of grid, known as Vertical Slice. After carrying the package that explodes in her face, the exo is trapped in the time loop and gains special “defects” forces that give it an extraordinary level of strength and skills. With the help of some friends who are doing on the way, Exo is trying to end this cycle of time loops, all while trying to save the world from a mysterious guard called Conn, who has his own harmful agenda.
As they progress in the game, players can encounter many terms specific to traditions they are not familiar with. Fortunately, TRON: Catalyst It contains a practical code that provides detailed descriptions of all fractions, characters, location and concepts in the game and can be accessed at any time through the game offers. This code is much easier to understand what is going on TRON: CatalystAnd it allows players to get a broad idea of who in the game are new characters.
TRON: Catalyst takes place in the ARQ grid, a new place that was presented in the prequel game, TRON: Identity. ARQ grid is different from grid Tron Movies are set up.
Although it is technically a continuation of the visual novel Bithell Games 2023 TRON: Identity, TRON: Catalyst you can enjoy without having any previous knowledge Tron franchise. Despite the fact that I am not well adept at the tradition of the series, I was still able to understand the plot TRON: Catalyst Without any problems, partly thanks to the CODEX function. Sure, TRON: CatalystThe narrative is not particularly amazing, but writing in the game is solid and is not very intricate, so it is available to novices for franchise.
If there is one area where TRON: CatalystBut the story stumbles, it is in his presentation. There are very few animated cutscenes TRON: CatalystAnd most of the game dialogue is presented through static elves. This does not necessarily have to be a bad thing in itself, but it would be nice if every character had more expressions and positions of the face. In this note, it would be great if the characters themselves were also more unforgettable. Protagonists and antagonists in TRON: Catalyst They are decent, but players will probably not be a strong connection with any of them after completing the game. At least, however, the voice works TRON: Catalyst It's pretty good.
As far as playing is concerned, TRON: CatalystThe fight is pleasant and direct, but it offers nothing revolutionary. Throughout the game, players have access to only one permanent weapon: Identity Disc. Some people may initially be disappointed by lack of diversity of weapons TRON: CatalystBut Bithell's games have added enough mechanics to give a greater depth of the game. Players can use an identity disk with a handful. They can control it as a melee weapon, throw it like a boomerang, or keep it attacks on Parry. Players can unlock new skills to increase their disks identity by collecting data shards that can be found in the game environment.
Data shards can also be obtained by completing certain challenges during fighting or defeating enemies.
TRON: Fight the catalyst is fun but defective
Although it is largely pleasant TRON: CatalystThe fight is detained by some significant balancing problems. For example, the use of identity for long distance attacks is largely unnecessary because it causes very small damage when throwing. Parrying, on the other hand, suffers from an accurate opposite problem. If players unlock all the available parry skills in the game, they can kill most enemies in one intervention just by reflecting their attacks using identity. This causes the boss to fight TRON: Catalyst ridiculously easy, to the point that they can be completed in seconds.
When they fight enemies, players can explore four large areas TRON: Catalystthat can walk on foot or on a light cycle. Although none of them is explicitly listed in TRON: CatalystMap in the game, there are also several side tasks in the game. In one of these optional tasks, I was able to unlock the harmless byte companion who followed me for the rest of my playing. Due to the time loop premise of the game, TRON: Catalyst It must have a certain amount of repetitions, even if these tasks are. However, thanks to rapidly developing game movement systems and a short run, it will never be boring to explore places and none of the levels last longer than necessary.
While I have examined the areas TRON: CatalystI did not encounter a lot of mistakes and defects and the game ran on a stable 60 fps. However, there were several cases where my character stuck between furniture or stones and could not move. I had to restart the level I was on to solve the problem. Fortunately, the game Autosaved every few minutes, so I have never lost any big progress because of this defect.
Overall, TRON: Catalyst I feel like the successor of the classic AA games from the Xbox 360 generation. It's a simple and entertaining game with action and action that has no flatulence, but has a handful of remarkable problems that keep it back from size. TRON: Catalyst sells for only $ 25 and frankly, It is worth the required price. Can keep players entertain for one or two day even if they are newcomer Tron franchise.
TRON: Catalyst
Checked on Xbox Series X/S
7/10
- Released
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June 17, 2025
- Developers
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Bithell Games
- PC release date
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June 17, 2025
- Date of Xbox Series X | WITH
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June 17, 2025
- PS5 release date
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June 17, 2025
- The fight is simple but fun
- Fast and pleasant movement
- A decent story and a good voice
- You can enjoy without knowing something about Tron
- Does not exceed his welcome
- Some Balance Problems in Fight
- Some minor mistakes and defects
- Limited presentation
- Unhealthy cast of characters
TRON: Catalyst It is now available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC. The Xbox Series X/S has been provided for this review.
