- Publisher: IntraGames
- Release Date: Jan 30, 2020
- Also On: PlayStation 4, Switch
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Mar 9, 2020Regardless of its shortcomings, Bookbound Brigade is a fun game with pretty inventive ideas and its shortcomings could be fixed with future updates.
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Feb 6, 2020Bookbound Brigade has a lot of brilliant ideas, is funny and well painted, but the mechanics have some missing points, with frustrating platform moments and dull combat.
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Mar 2, 2020Quotation forthcoming.
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Feb 27, 2020There are some good ideas to be found in Bookbound Brigade, and when everything clicks into place, it can be a lot of fun. But between the unreliable map, the tedious combat, the tired sense of humour, and the missed opportunity to do anything noteworthy with the "literary mash-up premise", Bookbound Brigade's good ideas are overshadowed by poor execution.
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Feb 3, 2020I really wanted to like Bookbound Brigade, but its flaws are too great to overlook. There are moments when it all comes together and you get a real sense of achievement from navigating a tricky section of traps or figuring out a nice environmental puzzles, but these are too often overshadowed by boring combat and the chore that is getting around the world. Unlike the books and stories that Bookbound Brigade is inspired by, good writing is not enough to salvage this story.