Review: Bookbound Brigade (PlayStation 4)

Bookbound Brigade is a new take on the established Metroidvania genre where you get to lead a colorful bunch of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure:

Pros:

• Cartoon graphics.
• 1.23gb download size.
• 3 save slots.
• Platinum trophy.
• Metroidvania gameplay.
• Tutorials as you play and then get saved in a menu.
• Constant checkpoints.
• Gimmick-play as a group of characters who move as one, you can get them to go into formation to navigate menus.
• Chests with loot.
• Puzzle elements.
• Historical characters.
• Humor throughout.
• Find and recruit new characters.
• Boss encounters.
• Combat is free form and you can launch enemies into the air and air combo them.

Cons:

• Platforming is difficult as the group is not tight and it causes you to off-balance or one part of them to get caught on the platform.
• Crazy difficulty spikes.
• Tedious platforming sections that are made worse with bad checkpointing.
• Slow-paced.