Because I would never do that. Truly. I would not leave you all to your own devices on a Friday afternoon (it would be dangerous, for one). We need excitement! We need adventure! We need questions!

So let’s get to it.

Yesterday was Dragon Age day, that magical day when a massive megacorporation (Electronic Arts) tells one of its subsidiaries (Bioware) to release a standalone character creator so that you can use the latest video game assets to make a portrait of your D&D character.

Trinity Fusion is the most recent game I’ve played to completion, and it’s quite the fun one. A metroidvania more akin to Metroid than to the (Castle)vania, it’s about sci-fi worlds that need to be merged in order to be saved — and you’re one of the few with avatars on all four of the worlds and therefore you get to play the hero. The main deviation from the standard formula is that it also embraces the rogue-lite formula popularized by games like Hades. Explore, die, repeat — but with the opportunity to play as different a person each time.

The story is a little light and sometimes it felt like the game did a poor choice of explaining what your current task was, but the gameplay, graphics and sound are amazing. I struggled with it more than typical because of its rogue-lite nature — having to reset each time I died ran counter to my standard metroidvania tactic of banging my head against a boss until I finally got it down — but eventually I was able to defeat the big bads and save the worlds. I’m looking forward to revisiting it when more free DLC is released (there have been two so far), but now I’m content to play something else for a bit.

While I download Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ let’s answer some questions!