- Original Release: 2023
- Developer: Paramount
- Publisher: Paramount
- Platform: Fortnite
This is an “event” within the video game Fortnite, a game I know so little about that I couldn’t even figure out how to change from the default skin. It’s essentially a custom mission and not fully affiliated with Fortnite, but is an official collaboration between Star Trek and Kid Cudi.
The game starts off with Captain Styles giving you a mission briefing, but it cuts off before it finishes. There’s a Mirror Universe Captain styles using a giant laser to harm a planet and you need to assist Captain Styles in fixing it. There are Starfleet insignias floating around, but collecting these does nothing. The mushrooms pulse to the music that is playing – which is songs from Kid Cudi’s album.
After moving forward a bit, you get to shoot some robot spiders with a ray gun. The weapons are just standard Fortnite weapons from what I can tell. You don’t have to kill them, though, as if you take too long the game will just warp you to the next section. I guess it’s to keep things in time with the music, but other than the pulsing mushrooms, it doesn’t do anything special with the music.
You’ll reach a Sonic-style grinding section. Here you push forward. I was expecting something to shoot or needing to hop between rails, but you just hold forward.
Then you get to play with a Back to the Future style overboard. I was in the middle of figuring out how to jump properly and move tricks when the game decided I was starting to have fun, said “no” and whisked me forward to the next section.
More spiders and a generator to destroy. If you’re on your own, you gent possibly get it to half health before you’re forced to move on. So there’s nothing to achieve at all.
Then you’re flying for absolutely no reason, flying through rings like Superman 64, although there’s no negatives for missing the rings.
Then to the “main” event. You watch Captain Styles perform Kid Cudi’s loosely Star Trek-inspired song. It’s quite long and boring. You do get a flare gun to fire a single firework. This is essentially all this is: a barely interactive music video, and it has to throw in random Starfleet insignias to collect to try and remind you that it has something to do with Star Trek.
After the mission is over, you go end up on a Star Trek themed multiplayer map, with some nice quite rooms. Here you can play a really dull multiplayer game called “prop hunt” where you pick an object to transform into and then hide, with others shooting random objects trying to kill those that are hiding. The level looks nice, but is pretty poor in layout and the bridge section is completely useless for this multiplayer game.
This is one of the worst Star Trek “games” I’ve experienced, especially as it doesn’t even let you play, it just jarringly warps you to the next section.
How to play Star Trek: Mirror Mayhem
Within Fortnite, search for the game type 0961-7139-1749.
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