Funk Fusion Preview: Violent Cartoon Fan Service, Wrapped in Pretty Plastic

Upcoming action-adventure title is a bright and busy grab bag of fan-first distractions thus far. The upcoming debut from studio 10:10 Games presents plentiful light action-adventure gameplay centered on the longstanding 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 backdrops sourced from a rainbow of different properties, including,,, and films from Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy.

was able to test-drive elements from those last two in our preview, with a playable experience that sets the premise of the game using these two disparate franchises. Four characters from and were available to swap between, unleashing chaos upon scenes and settings pulled from the films and reconfigured through a madcap lens.

Kellen Goff and Arthur Parsons discuss the massive Universal crossover at the heart of the new cross-platform Universal crossover in Funko Fusion.

Anyone familiar with the licensed Lego games of yore will sense an immediate familiarity here. And so, each level features plenty of destructible environmental details, this time yielding multicolored plastic gems instead of studs and bricks. These collectibles are hoovered up and processed into items, gear, and yet more collectibles and unlocks. It’s all very shiny, noisy, and unexpectedly violent, and we spent a good four hours scouting out film references and secrets in the current preview build.

Freddy Funko takes center stage in, with a primarily wordless narrative that sees the company’s mascot replicated by a sinister force of sentient purple goo. This new nemesis “Eddy” then flies off to pervert classic films in their traversable worlds; for instance, he possesses a massive dinosaur to relive the pterosaur-filled park chaos of the first .

Players choose one of four Funko Pops to control at the start, all of whom are presumably purchasable IRL figurines as well. obviously offers Owen