Review RiverBond (PlayStation 4)

Riverbond is a ‘shoot-and-slash’ dungeon crawler with solo and couch co-op play, set in a stunning voxel world.

Pros:

• Voxel graphics.
• 1.22gb download size.
• Platinum trophy including a bonus set of trophies for the new free DLC level.
• Tutorial option.
• Action-adventure gameplay.
• Drop-in/out local 4 player co-op.
• Quick loading.
• 8 worlds each with a couple of levels in each with a big boss fight at the end.
• Earn score by collecting coins/gems, opening chests, killing enemies and talking to NPC.
• Hot-swap between 5 weapon slots.
• Chests-random loot.
• Set goals on each level.
• A lot of level destruction.
• Sub dungeons/areas in levels.
• Can play any world in any order as they are all unlocked from the beginning.
• Each weapon does a set amount of damage, both high and low.
• Presents-unwrap for random loot.
• Cool locations from Caves, snowy hills to swamps.
• Minibosses.
• Funny skin and weapons like upvote arrows, aubergines skin and more.
• Cameo of characters from games like Guacamelee and Bastion.
• Actions-jump, roll, shoot, melee and super slam.
• Occasional checkpoints.
• Can pick up objects and throw them, you can even throw enemies.
• Looks fantastic.
• Sweet boss explosion animations.
• Easy Platinum.
• New area-Crystal watch that takes place in a cave-like system with new enemies and bosses.
• The Crystal Watch level adds a lot more variety to the overall level design and the game benefits from this.

Cons:

• The slowdown in places.
• Parts of the new level had sections where the level killed everyone for you.
• Repetitive mission structure. Kill X amount of people or press y on something.
• Boss fights are slow.
• The RNG on loot will determine how easy/long a boss fight will be.
• No online leaderboards.
• No online co-op.
• Not that difficult at all and no options.
• Can run/roll through large parts of the map.
• Tedious interactions like ladders not registering and the gun controls messing up when using super slam.
• NPC are pointless, little story and only done for the score.
• The score really has no bearing on anything.
• Super slam is not powerful at all.
• No idea how good a weapon is until you actually equip it and use it.
• Have to click to pick up health.
• Infinite lives.
• Inconsistent checkpoints.