Sadly, the great voice acting is hampered by something that is present in pretty much every game published by Outright: poor sound mixing.
That also includes Kate Mulgrew reprising her role of (the hologram of) Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager, easily the highlight of the game as a whole. In the meantime, you’ll also have the chance to talk to your crew members, all voiced by the cast of the show itself. Keep doing this until you reach the end of the game. Enemies are pretty easy to deal with, and puzzles usually center around picking up an energy cube and placing it on top of a switch, unlocking a door. You go from level to level, gathering new crew members, which can then be used in previous levels in order to reach previously unreachable areas, just like Free Play mode in any given Lego game. The game revolves around rescuing the crew of the USS Protostar, which crashed on a planet whose star is set to go supernova in a few terrestrial days. It’s not a challenging or innovative game, but it gets the job done with honors. Remember how the older Lego games were fixed-camera action-adventure/platforming hybrids with an emphasis on simple puzzle and combat sections, resource collecting, and optional co-op? Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova is pretty much that, with decent controls, excellent framerate, and a similar, albeit smaller in scope, gameplay loop. I don’t mean that Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova is a cathartic and OCD-infused collectathon like the Lego games, as amazing as that would have been. Granted, it mostly achieves that by simply not sucking, but all in all, it is a fun little title, which takes advantage of a tried and true gameplay formula that, weirdly enough, has never been attempted by anyone else other than its main creators: the Lego games. In fact, it might actually be one of the best Star Trek games released in decades. Thankfully, as a game as a whole, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova isn’t terrible.
The fact that Star Trek Prodigy is a straight sequel to Star Trek: Voyager, aired between 19, is just one of many questions I have in my head after finding out about the cartoon series and playing Supernova. I have to say, I complain a lot about the new directions taken by the Star Wars franchise, but I have to be glad they are nowhere near as confusing as what Alex Kurtzman has done with Star Trek.
I had to do a bit of research in order to understand where does Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova (as well as its source of inspiration, the Star Trek Prodigy cartoon series) fit into the massive(ly convoluted) Star Trek canon. Combat is beyond simplistic, but still enjoyable.
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