The Plucky Squire's colorful combo of 2D and 3D is taking us back to one of our favorite Zelda games, the 3DS highlight A Link Between Worlds.
This story is part of our Summer Gaming Marathon series. Of all the indie games set to release in the back half of 2024, The Plucky Squire has to be at the top of my list. I’ve been interested in the Devolver Digital -published project ever since its reveal thanks to its perspective-shifting gameplay. Players run through the pages of a storybook in 2D, but jump out of it to solve puzzles in the 3D world around it.
Recommended Videos Off the page My adventure begins a few hours into the full game in a truncated chapter with a few puzzles removed for the sake of time. During that time, I’d get to get a feel for both The Plucky Squire‘s 2D and 3D gameplay, and the way that those two ideas intersect. First, I’d start in the pages of a book. These sections play out like a standard top-down adventure where I control a little hero with a moveset not so far off from Link’s.
The demo really picks up when I reach an unpassable barrier in the book. To stop a spinning death trap blocking a path, I need to step outside of the book. Suddenly I’m in full 3D as I walk around the desk the book is on. I find myself in a little hub area filled with NPCs before finding my task: I need to find three “dad shards” to reassemble a face printed on a mug and get a useful reward.
That gets even more clever later on. After finding all three dad shards via short puzzles , I take everything back to a glass mug. I can jump inside that, allowing me to run across the entire cup in 2D. I get a surprise when I bring the shards there: I’m suddenly plopped into a side-scrolling space shoot-’em-up entirely on the mug. It plays out like Resogun, with me clearing waves of enemies that pop up around the circular object.
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