The Plucky Squire review: Now that's what I call a real page-turner, writes PETER HOSKIN By Peter Hoskin For The Daily Mail Published: 00:01 BST, 20 September 2024 | Updated: 00:04 BST, 20 September 2024 e-mail View comments The Plucky Squire ( PlayStation , Xbox, Switch, PC, £24.99) Verdict: A real page-turner Rating: This squire sure is plucky. With his jaunty hat and gleaming blade, he bounces around the pages of a storybook land, dispatching monsters and righting wrongs.
His friends — and he seems to have many, all of them kooky — call him Jot. It's an apt name because Jot is actually a jotting or illustration. When I said 'storybook land' above, I meant a literal storybook: this plucky squire's adventures take place across the pages of a children's tale.
When he's not jumping like Mario or sword-swinging like Link, he can move words around to push the narrative forward. The page turns. It's delightfully clever.
And it gets even cleverer. Thanks to the nefarious schemes of the evil wizard Humgrump, Jot is ejected from his paperbound land into the real world of a young boy's bedroom. A 2D experience turns into a 3D one.
The Plucky Squire is a 2024 action-adventure platform game It is developed by All Possible Futures and published by Developer Digital The game follows the magical adventures of storybook characters Jot and his friends who discover a 3D world outside of the pages of their book Pretty soon, courtesy of another magical intervention, you're navigating Jot .