I’m sure most people have been down to their local pop culture shop and picked up a Funko Pop! of your favourite character, and thanks to 10:10 Games they have now brought this addiction to consoles. Funko Fusion is a new action-adventure game that crosses many universes we have all grown to love over the years.

This game reminded me a little of jumping into the Lego Star Wars Series where you could run around the main hub and then select what you wanted to do next, and if you wanted to go back and do it again you could collect all the loot you left behind. From launch, you are graced with awesome worlds to explore like, Umbrella Academy, Masters of the Universe, The Thing, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Battlestar Galactica, and Jurassic World. With 60+ unique playable characters, those missions don’t include the bonus easter egg missions you can find along the way which you can trust me, they are well and truly worth waiting to see. How the developers have created this game leaves room for more worlds to be added in future DLC which I’m keen to see turned into one of those titles I didn’t want to put down quickly.

There is a storyline to this title and that is the biggest part that immerses you by seeing what the developers had planned next and how they would create a storyline around your favourite storylines. There is no particular way you need to do the levels. The developers do suggest a certain way they would recommend, which is Hot Fuzz, The Thing, Jurassic World, Battlestar Galactica, The Umbrella Academy, Masters of the Universe, and last but not least Scott Pilgrim vs The World, but like I said, you don’t need to do it in this order, it’s only recommended from 10:10 Games.

Let me be the first person to tell you that you could freeplay on Jurassic Park with Skeletor and Scott Pilgrim, nothing is saying you can’t, but each mission requires different move sets and special abilities that each character possesses, so you might need to be a little lenient on who you are picking. It could be something as simple as that person has a specific weapon, or can do a particular move that no one else can, but it adds a little more difficulty to the game which I’m not going to argue about.

While you are adventuring around the maps you will find an array of machines scattered around, and also Funko Pop boxes where you can change your character during the missions. The mould machines are broken down into three machines blue, red, and green, with the blue one being the one you go to to make gadgets like jump pads, and UV lights. If you go to the green machine you can create things like the soda cans you drink to heal yourself and other health benefits. I visited the red one the least as it felt pointless. The red one allowed you to craft some weird weapons that were worse than the normal ones.

The controls were super simple to get used to and the one move that confused me at first, then I ended up using the most, was the combat role, especially whilst versing people like Micheal from Hot Fuzz and only picturing something saying YARP. The movement and on-screen prompts made the game a breeze to get used to and the ability to change them is a great touch.

The 3D animation cartoons’ graphics were perfect and if I needed to describe what the characters looked like, it would be that they had just cut their way out of the box and made their way onto my screen.

The environment around me had that same feel but kept true to being cartoonish and some of the greatest building names were inspired by Funko. It reminded me so much of Lego Star Wars where you walked around the mission breaking everything and anything and making sure nothing was forgotten and that was the same here, you wanted to comb over where you were heading to make sure you got it all to collect everything and be the boss. 

There was something about the minimal talking in the cutscenes and the straight-out grunting from the characters. This made me take a trip down memory lane with Lego Star Wars before the latest one was released. It would have been weird to have full-fledged voice acting and I feel like it would have ruined the game a little which I never thought I would hear myself saying. The background music was amazing and was themed around each map. Some iconic tunes you will hear amongst that is the sound aspect, it felt so fine-tuned and well-polished for this game that I was scratching my head to try to find a negative. I’ll say the only one was in the Hot Fuzz world, I got a little sick of hearing the background music but that was the one thing I could fault and that was just me being picky. 

Funko Fusions is the perfect mix of adventure and action built into a game where once you start playing you want to play more, even if you know the storyline’s outcome in the levels. I would love to see the developers keep working on this game and creating a universe around the small addiction we all have. I hope to see some of you punching this title out enough to pick up Mr Kentucky Fried himself Colonel Sanders.

Written by: Hayden Nelson