#Strager things 3 movie#
#Strager things 3 upgrade#

The man on the motorcycle who beat him up? Turns out, Hopper saw him leaving Kline’s office the other day. Hopper pays another visit to Larry Kline, and he has questions. After two seasons of wading around in the Upside Down and getting infiltrated with tentacles, he knows a bad feeling when he gets one, and the return of power brought with it a familiar dread that makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. There’s one audience member who isn’t relieved, and that’s Will. However, almost as quickly as it went off, the power comes back on, prompting cheers from the movie-goers. As we pan over the dark town, we see rats scuttling and bits of metal swarming into a giant mass. Just as soon as it starts, however, the power flickers off, and unbeknownst to the audience, it’s a Hawkins-wide outage.

#Strager things 3 movie#

Steve (Joe Keery) has forgone college to sling ice cream at the Scoops Ahoy, which happens to have a back entrance into the movie theater that allows the gang into a screening of Day Of The Dead. It’s bright and shiny and, even better, they have an in. You craft the various upgrades by finding items in the environment or buying them from shops and vending machines, but I always seemed to be short on items and money, despite destroying every breakable item in every location.Mike arrives at the brand new Starcourt Mall to meet up with Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp), and Max (Sadie Sink). I ended up using the ones that granted universal bonuses, like extra health or extra walking speed, which were consequently the most boring ones. I switched characters often, so I didn’t like equipping upgrades that benefited single characters.

#Strager things 3 upgrade#

The upgrade system disappoints, only giving you five upgrade slots shared among the 12 characters. I would get stuck on corners or they would be out of reach when they didn’t appear to be. The geometry of the levels often made it harder to attack enemies than it should have been. I didn’t find blocking useful until the end boss, when it was forced upon me as a necessary mechanic.

When lots of enemies are on-screen you use your special ability, but that’s about it. Depending on your attack range, you just press the attack button a bunch and then move to the next enemy. That freedom extends up to the end boss, when I was forced to use a pair of characters I had learned early weren’t for me.ĭespite having different strategic options available with various characters, the moment-to-moment combat is bland. I enjoyed trying different combinations, but also appreciated that you can use whoever you want at any time, even if it doesn’t fit with the story. Mike and Hopper are up-close brawlers, for example, while Will is a ranged fighter and Max’s special ability drops healing items. You unlock additional characters every few missions, and each of the 12 has different abilities. You play as two characters at all times, swapping between them whenever you want.

A handful of sidequests exist, but they tasked me with doing boring things like killing rats in a basement, delivering pizza, or finding hidden gnomes and the payoffs were disappointing. I felt I was moving around in a circle as I traveled point to point with simple puzzles and enemies serving as hurdles. They’re all fetch quests, or arbitrary moments where the characters proclaim it’s time to talk to Steve at Scoops Ahoy, or agree they should all meet at Mike’s basement. The main missions are hampered by their need to hew close to the source material. I enjoyed that element, but it does nothing to expand the lore, dig deeper into the characters, or show interesting beats happening outside of the main story. Playing an adaptation like this is nostalgic in its own right, as direct video game adaptations of popular media are rare these days. The story beats are identical to those of the show, but the dialogue is truncated. In Stranger Things 3: The Game (which is confusingly the second Stranger Things game), you control the main cast from an isometric perspective to explore the town of Hawkins, Indiana, and beat up monsters and bad guys as you play through the events of the third season. The aesthetic makes the game feel like it should have been released for the Super Nintendo, but the simple action gameplay holds it back from being a worthwhile companion to one of Netflix’s biggest hits. A 16-bit callback video game is well-suited to tap that same viewership vein.

Stranger Things is a well-executed throwback to classic ‘80s nostalgia that follows a group of kids in a small town as they solve world-threatening mysteries and try to grow up at the same time.