Progression is entirely linear, although you can revisit completed stages at any time to pick up items you missed, or ones that require assistance from a crewmember you hadn't rescued on your first run. Jankom Pog, for example, uses his engineering nous to unlock jammed doors, while Rok smashes through big piles of stone. Along the way, you'll rescue your other crewmates who return to the Protostar and periodically beam down to unblock your path when you open a channel. Gameplay involves navigating 3D planet-based environments and switching between Gywn and Dal to solve various puzzles blocking your path, typically involving powerlines, switches, blocks, transporters, and more. This game is set in a mid-season gap and features a mystery centred around a star that's about to go nova, the evil robot Drednock, and the Protostar-hunting Diviner, who also happens to be the father of Gwyn, one of the stowaways onboard the ship and the character you'll be playing along with Dal. In a nutshell, a motley bunch of youngsters led by 'Captain' Dal R'El commandeer the USS Protostar (a prototype Starfleet vessel they find mysteriously buried on a planet in the Delta Quadrant) and escape captivity with the help of a holographic version of Captain Janeway, of Voyager fame. Much of the game's charm relies on your familiarity with the characters from the show - so if you haven't caught up, you'll want to do so. Tessera has done well to drill down on a key theme of Trek - working together to overcome adversity and find smart solutions to serious problems - and divert that power directly into Supernova's core.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Seeing positive examples of teamwork feels restorative and refreshing given the relative chaos of the world today, just one way in which Star Trek gives hope for the future. Any Trekkie worth their salt knows that the real appeal of the show and its umpteen spin-offs is not mapping stars or studying nebulae or modifying the main deflector to emit an inverse tachyon pulse but, instead, watching a tight-knit crew bonding over time and becoming a family as they problem-solve and perform their assigned roles with competence and camaraderie. The question is: Can Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova bring the series back to Nintendo consoles with a bang? After such a long leave of absence, it falls to Tessera Studios and the family-focused, licenced-IP-friendly publisher Outright Games to return to the final frontier with a cooperative action-puzzler based on Nickelodeon's franchise spin-off. In fact, Star Trek: Conquest on Wii was the last time the franchise beamed onto a Nintendo platform, way back in 2007. Star Trek fans might have a whole new constellation of shows to enjoy (or complain about amirite), but when it comes to video games the range of available options has been decidedly slimmer, especially on Nintendo systems. It's been a long road getting from there to here.
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