Violent Cartoon Fan Service, Wrapped In Pretty Plastic

Summary

• Funko Fusion
  offers a light action-adventure game featuring collectible vinyl figurine characters from popular franchises.
• The game features familiar environments, collectibles, and unique weapons for each character.
• Funko Fusion
  's combat is functional but simple, with a busy frenetic style that sometimes contrasts with puzzling quest objectives.

An upcoming action-adventure title Funko Fusion it's a bright and busy bag that has kept fans distracted to this day. The upcoming debut from studio 10:10 Games delivers a light-hearted action-adventure game with plenty of action based on the long-running sensation of collectible vinyl figurines in general, and its license with NBCUniversal in particular. This means that players will be able to control characters and explore various features, including rainbow-inspired backgrounds The Walking Dead, Invincible, Jurassic parkand films from Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.

Screen Rant was able to test these last two items with playability in our preview Funko Fusion game-defining experience using these two distinct franchises. Four symbols Hot Fuzz and Jurassic World They were interchangeable, wreaking havoc on scenes and settings taken from the movies and reconfigured through a crazy lens.

Anyone familiar with previously licensed Lego games will feel an immediate sense of familiarity here. And so each Funko Fusion level has a lot of destructible environmental details, this time instead of pillars and bricks, it gives multi-colored plastic stones. This collection is developed and processed into a collection of items, gear and more. All very bright, noisy and unexpectedly violentand we spent a good four hours discovering movie references and secrets in the current viewing setup.

Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic

Funko Fusion's quirky goofy base travels in licensed toy sizes

Freddy Funko takes center stage Funko Fusionwith a primarily wordless story that sees the company's mascot replicated by an evil force of sentient purple goo. This new enemy “Eddie” then flies in to distort the classic films in their passable world; for example he owns a giant dinosaur to recreate the chaos of the original pterosaur-filled park. Jurassic World.

Players choose one of four Funko Pops to control at the start, all of which are presumably IRL figurines. Jurassic World obviously offers Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), but also has Barry Sembène (Omar Sy) as a controllable avatar. We expect the full game to continue here with unlockable main and side characters for any interactive licenses, but there is a good spread in the preview for both movies.

Characters aren't just cosmetic skins;
Funko Fusion
Equipping each with a unique firearm and melee weapon adds unexpected variety.

Our full list of playable Funko Pop avatars Funko Fusion The preview includes the following with the original cast in parentheses:

• Hot Fuzz: Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg)
• Danny Butterman (Nick Frost)
• Sgt. Tony Fisher (Kevin Eldon)
• Doris Thatcher (Olivia Colman)
• Jurassic World: Owen Grady (Chris Pratt)
• Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard)
• Barry Sembène (Omar Sy)
• Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise)

Plus, the characters aren't just cosmetic skins; Funko Fusion Equipping each with a unique firearm and melee weapon adds unexpected variety. Hot FuzzDanny Butterman (Nick Frost) gets his Cornetto ice cream cone to hit the bad guys, while Olivia Colman's Doris Thatcher uses a yellow wet floor sign.

That said, we didn't find much mechanically different between the guns, but Poplar rifles, pistols, shotguns, etc. they get, and most serve to highlight the film's sources, even if playing as different Funkos never changes the story in any way.. Players also don't have to be trapped by their character choices, as each level offers multiple swapping stations, and figurines share their ongoing inventory between levels.

Broken Toys and Plastic Violence

Funko Fusion might be weirdly violent, but these are just vinyl figurines

So what to do Funko Fusion? Each stage offers an indoor playground with progress divided into checkable tasks. This could mean unlocking an electrified door, taking a helipad to rescue predator babies, collecting the right gems or items to interact with a puzzle, or blasting through waves of enemies. The movement is usually stumbling and uncertain, and on the low end of the difficulty scalewhich causes the game to be aimed at younger players Lego games.

What's surprising is that much of it is surprisingly grotesque. Funkos are decapitated, beaten, crushed, and while none of this is shown in gore, the inherent images are more violent than the licensed ones. Lego series, even if an underlying silliness permeates the action. If only one could imagine that decapitation, complete with wet drops of cartoon blood, could be performed in some form. sweetit more or less showcases the scratchy tone of the game.

During our review, we encountered a number of situations where the quest objectives were minimally explained, leading to a lot of running around confined areas to find any interactive points that were missed. as with Lego games, Funko Fusion have their own side goals, achievements, and other cute time wastersbut there is little guidance for any of them. For example, if a player comes across a collectible for a particular level, they will suddenly learn that they should have been looking for it in the first place.

Hey Down Front!

Blocky Heads Aside, Funko Fusion's Battle Is Functional But Satisfying

All in all, it's a minor criticism considering this Funko Fusion never takes itself too seriously, plastic blood and all. This outlook also applies to the combat, which is functional but never sharp or satisfying, with most enemies simply squeezing the player and hitting the perfect target from afar. Health is generous and can be regenerated by using soda bottles; In a fun twist, players can even put spent bottles into recycling bins to earn more gems.

There are a number of special weapons, explosives, and one-shot buffs that can be printed from the vehicles that populate each area, giving players alternative ways to fight themed enemy hordes. Although these are rarely necessary, having more options is always a plus in a game like this, and it felt rewarding to clear levels and eventually unlock new printables..

Funko Fusion's style is busy but usually easy to read, with a surprising amount of detail in its texture and level design. Funko is more interested in the actual size and physical qualities of the Pops themselves, with massive rectangular heads blocking the screen more than they should. Holding the left trigger moves the camera closer to the back of the player for precise aiming – something that's never useful or required by movement – ​​and it takes up about 1/3 of the screen.. Is it suitable for toys? Of course, but for a game camera, this is completely impossible.

Final Thoughts on Preview

Research Is Fun, But Finding An Audience Can Be Difficult

After spending a lot of time drawing dinos and vinos, we were convinced that the Venn diagram Funko Fusion and Lego there is a wide and wide cross section of games. Both are full of Easter eggs, hidden collectibles, and numerous opportunities to tear apart a room and collect everything that falls. Along with the chaos of intense combat, tempered by the mildest penalties for failure, there's the same familiar but silly licensed narrative with even one word of dialogue.

Although all this is a carnival version of the outstanding movie worlds Funko Fusion seems a little too edgy for young kids right now – some cryptic level objectives don't help in this regard either – it is also too shallow for adults. There's a fine line between challenging, engaging gameplay, and simple fan service, and our preview section has never struck that balance with grace.

Still, beating up velociraptors and flaming British cultists has some appeal, and it's fun to comb through. Funko Fusionlevels to find all the goodies and solve any hidden conflicts. It is worth remembering that Lego games had a longer shelf life than anyone expected, especially when it came to their multiplayer components Funko Fusion's developers are promising for release, but it was not possible to test it in this preview.

This plastic playground has a vast library of potential content to play with, and you can combine elements from the resulting films. M3GAN and Child's play with Voltron and Masters of the Universe cartoons sound like a sure selljust as an obvious oddity. It's arguable that any tonal problems we're experiencing support this concept itself, or even that it's all part of the size-hopping deal. In general, Funko Fusion shaping up to be a good time so far, just don't overdo it.

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