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The Plucky Squire
Released On: Sep 17, 2024
84
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
64 Reviews
64 Reviews
11% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
64 Reviews
64 Reviews
11% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The Plucky Squire brings us back to our childhood, when we were still learning about videogames. Despite its ambitious premise, the game makes you fall in love with it with innocence and simplicity, remembering us why we even like games after all.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
8.1
74% Positive
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
18% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
8.1
74% Positive
48 Ratings
48 Ratings
18% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
A love letter to childish wonder! This game inventive, fun to play and absolutely gorgeous to look at.
If you enjoyed Mario Odyessy, It takes two, astro bot etc. then you owe it to yourself to give this a go!
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The Plucky Squire is a game oozing with charm and positivity, and the clever word and book based puzzles will keep you gripped from start to finish.
The Plucky Squire might be the most imaginative indie game you'll play this year. What if a character could step out of their storybook and change their world? The game answers this question through a delightful journey. Although the story and combat feel somewhat simplistic and don't fully live up to the creative premise, the overall experience remains enjoyable.
If we put aside for a moment the fact that this is a rather short experience, what we have here is a stunning indie game that does what it wants to do very well which makes the overall experience you will get from it a successful one, and personally I think it is one of the sweetest surprises of 2024.
Once the story finally starts delivering on its themes in the back half of the adventure and Jot obtains all of his storybook-manipulating abilities, The Plucky Squire is a joy. We’re entering a postmodern era for the video game industry where the art itself can start discussing what came before, who made it, and why it was made. The Plucky Squire finds itself standing tall in the middle of that trend. It's a must-play if you want to understand why game developers, artists, or any kind of creator makes things in spite of so many forces trying to blot their work out.
In the end, the title’s glittering potential was blotted out by its somber execution.
If you want to enjoy a game made with patience and with every bit of enjoyment, this is the game. Everything in itself is well done, only that the difficulty is very easy but for this type of genre it is well applied for what it is and what it conveys. It is a very short game but you will really enjoy the story, the gameplay and the puzzles it has.
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short and sweet. I wanted to play more and have the story surrounding the kingdom deeper as one level went to the next and this game could ascend past Indy Darling. Much like it takes two and link's between worlds we have a fun storytelling in the form of a children's book with plenty of laughs and familiar gameplay of a hack n slash with platforming puzzles with a couple mini games shoehorned in, but I noticed that the boss fights were gimmicky and introduced new mechanics rather than using what you've learned throughout the game to apply to the finale. I heard reviews that the final act wasn't strong and I'd have to agree, but storytelling was strong and the gameplay was inventive, but throwing new ideas towards the end kind of took it away from the initial gameplay as a whole.
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The whole game has terrible pacing issues that consistently stop the flow of the game, for everything the game does with its visuals, it never trusts the player enough to let them play through the experience.
Everything is guided, and overtly explained to the point of ad nauseam; the "puzzles" are not really puzzles in any way, you're supposed to replace words in sentences, but you get only two choices most of the times? So all you have to do is take one word and put the next.
Gameplay is also extremely simplistic, with uninspired and generic platforming sections, as well as awful mindless combat where enemies -even on the "challenging" difficulty setting-, die in one hit and constantly drop hearts for the player to pick up.
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Summary The Plucky Squire follows the magical adventures of Jot and his friends - storybook characters who discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book. When the malevolent Humgrump realises he's the villain of the book - destined to lose his battle against the forces of good for all eternity - he kicks the heroic Jot out ...
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 5
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Sep 17, 2024
Developer:
- All Possible Futures
Publisher: Devolver Digital
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