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The Plucky Squire review - the power of imagination
Our review of The Plucky Squire, a lovely and inventive game for kids and adults.
Watch on YouTube In turn this explains why a game made of such simple, even basic pieces - combat, a little platforming, regular puzzles - comes together to create something singular. He discovers this by being flung out of the pages and into a weird close-up world of paperclips and pencil sharpeners and jotter pads where someone's been doodling the Squire's face. | Image credit: All Possible Futures/Devolver Digital What follows is an adventure to stop the wizard from rewriting the book, by moving through the fantasy world within its pages, shifting from top-down battling, say, to side-on platforming, from colourful towns to shadowy caves, picking up a bunch of pals as you go, and then sequences in which you must move outside the book, to scrabble over that 3D world of the desktop, occasionally warping into 2D sections when there's a handy child's drawing pinned to a wall or pasted onto a bit of cardboard.
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