The Plucky Squire: Will it be the most beautiful indie game ever?

As well as the Summer Game Fest and numerous others gaming events The indie publisher Devolver Digital was also able to present new games from its portfolio on Thursday at midnight German time. Although each title demonstrated its creative merits, one game in particular received groundbreaking attention thanks to its unique graphic style.

The Plucky Squirein English “The brave squire”, takes you into an enchanting story about the young warrior Jot and combines a comic-like 2D perspective in the style of a children’s book with a toy look reminiscent of the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remind.

The Plucky Squire: Unusual graphic mix with magical charm

In the role of the titular hero, you first experience adventures from the pages of a picture book from a bird’s eye view: you defeat simple goblins, explore dark caves and fight a boxing match against a honey-hungry badger. The children’s book framing not only comes into its own through the cute style, but is also illustrated by written elements: For example, by using the word “bridge” you build a bridge out of water lilies.

But Jot soon discovers a mysterious portal that leads him out of the children’s book and into the real world: the perspective changes from 2D to 3D and Jot also sheds his comic-like appearance to walk through the deceptively real-looking children’s room like a toy soldier . Of course, that’s where his adventure really begins and from the different perspectives one seems according to that trailers can also be used later in the game.

Acted as publisher Devolver Digitalas a developer studio may however All possible futures assert. One of the two studio bosses is James Turnerwho previously at game freak where he worked, including as art director for Pokémon Sword and Shield. Among other things, he designed the Pokémon Trombork, Golgante, Schlingking and Mortipot.