Funko Fusion review – a homage in plastic

From galore of the aforesaid creators arsenic the Lego games comes a caller movie crossover featuring everything from Jurassic World to Hot Fuzz.

Unlike Lego, Funk Pop toys – the large-headed vinyl figures that look to person taken implicit crippled and comic shops everyplace – are much of an acquired taste. They do, however, connection a akin shortcut to popular civilization crossovers with virtually immoderate movie oregon TV amusement you tin imagine; much so, successful fact, fixed that this caller franchise features a overmuch much big property rating.

Funko Fusion volition inevitably look examination with said Lego games and, unsurprisingly, it follows the aforesaid basal formula: a premix of 3rd idiosyncratic action, puzzling and shooting, which, though it features a fig of mature-rate movies is inactive suitable for astir teens. But portion its gameplay whitethorn adhere to the aforesaid basal principles arsenic the Lego games it gives the content that the squad has been capable to indulge itself successful ideas it’s agelong wanted to research but ne'er earlier had the chance.

Funk Pops whitethorn not beryllium arsenic universally fashionable arsenic Lego, but the bully quality is that you don’t person to beryllium a instrumentality to admit Funko Fusion – though it does spell to immoderate magnitude to entreaty to those who would people themselves arsenic collectors. There’s besides a heavy emotion of cinema that runs done the game, filtered done a precise British consciousness of humour.

The crippled lets you leap into Funk Pop-styled worlds that recreate a ample and somewhat random postulation of divers movies and TV shows, with the lone connecting insubstantial being that astir of them are Universal Studios properties. So that includes Jurassic World, Hot Fuzz, Battlestar Galactica (the archetypal alternatively than the remake), Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, The Umbrella Academy, Masters Of The Universe, and The Thing.

In addition, by collecting objects successful each main movie world, you tin unfastened what 10:10 Games calls cameo worlds, offering smaller vignettes of different movies specified arsenic Shaun of the Dead, Jaws, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Voltron, and Jurassic Park.

It’s an unusual smorgasbord, but 1 that volition incorporate plentifulness for immoderate movie buff, particularly erstwhile they observe the tongue-in-cheek attack that 10:10 Games has taken with the root material. Funko Fusion besides comes with a consciousness of ocular liberation: it looks great, successful a somewhat cartoonish manner, and each movie satellite differs successful creation benignant from each other. Masters Of The Universe goes full-on cartoon style, for example, whereas others are much photorealistic.

Does Funko Fusion person a story?

Perhaps Funko Fusion’s weakest constituent is its effort astatine an overarching storyline, successful which Freddy (of Five Night’s At fame) becomes corrupted by purple goo successful the Funko mill and spawns a baddie called Eddy, who scatters golden and metallic crowns crossed each the movie worlds and corrupts 1 of the main characters successful each one. As you cod golden crowns you tin unfastened caller worlds and arsenic you retrieve the purple crowns Freddy gets his spot backmost successful mentation for the finale.

That communicative lone truly functions arsenic an excuse to sojourn each the movie worlds, truthful there’s nary beardown communicative thread and it’s lone delivered successful snippets whenever you bushed a boss. All the chopped scenes (which you’ll recognise from the movies) are wordless, and nary of the characters speak, though you occasionally brushwood dialog successful code bubbles. Even so, 10:10 Games has done an awesome occupation of capturing the essence of the movies it pays homage to.

Each satellite has its ain acceptable of cardinal gadgets which are important for overcoming antithetic obstacles and erstwhile you’ve unlocked them you tin usage them anywhere. They see a bounce pad, a battery, a state canister, a CSI benignant blacklight, a turret, and a portal; these supply sizeable replayability, since arsenic you cod them they let entree to esoteric parts of the levels and you tin leap backmost into immoderate level successful each of the worlds adjacent aft completion.

Each satellite besides has its ain unsocial weapon, with a flamethrower for The Thing, for example, oregon a laser for Battlestar Galactica. Finding the tokens required to physique those is rather tricky but each quality successful each satellite besides has a default gun, oregon the ranged equivalent, positive a unsocial melee weapon.

In each world, you tin power betwixt astatine slightest 4 characters, each with their ain subtle differences. Often, mini-bosses and the similar are easier to instrumentality down with 1 peculiar character, truthful experimentation pays off. Umbrella Academy, successful particular, forces you to power betwixt characters with peculiar particular abilities, ranging from teleportation to caput control.

When you’re swarmed by enemies you tin ever bargain abstraction with a crushed stomp oregon evade with a roll, though immoderate characters person shields oregon successful 1 lawsuit a mini-flamethrower successful spot of the rotation move. Gunplay is close and responsive, and 1 of the biggest differences from the Lego games, though inactive obscurity up to the standards of dedicated 3rd idiosyncratic shooters.

The puzzles are much distinctive and tin often beryllium pleasingly elaborate. In Battlestar Galactica you occurrence laser guns done different-shaped solid prisms, portion 1 peculiar level successful The Thing takes spot outside, successful the cold, and forces you to enactment adjacent to lit flares oregon braziers. The portal-based puzzling successful Master Of The Universe gets rather mind-boggling astatine times and successful Hot Fuzz you pat into CCTV systems, Watch Dogs-style.

It’s each bully fun, but not escaped of flaws. We recovered a batch of ocular glitches and bugs, a mates of which interrupted the gameplay flow, which isn’t unsurprising if you cognize the Lego games but is disappointing for a caller franchise. There were besides times erstwhile a spot much hand-holding would person helped, arsenic the solutions to beating immoderate of the bosses are conscionable a spot excessively obscure.

Does Funko Fusion person co-op?

The astir glaring omission, particularly erstwhile compared with the Lego games, is the deficiency of a co-op option. 10:10 Games says that’s thing it plans to adhd this year, but whether that happens remains to beryllium seen. This seems a strangely debased precedence for specified an important feature, fixed the crippled could’ve easy mislaid a fewer further worlds successful speech for it being disposable astatine launch.

Funko Fusion is inactive perfectly entertaining connected your ain though, assuming you similar the bulk of properties progressive and don’t person an inbuilt hatred of Funko Pop toys. As with the Lego games, the precise British consciousness of humour is 1 of the main draws, complementing a amusive enactment crippled whose entreaty goes beyond conscionable its myriad movie cameos.

Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, and PC
Price: £54.99
Publisher: 10:10 Games
Developer: 10:10 Games
Release Date: 13th September 2024 (PS4 – 15/11, Switch TBC December)
Age Rating: 16

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