Bound by Flame (PS4)
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12 years ago
Bound by Flame Review (PS4)
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Pros:
- Some fun to be found in combat
- A few really cool looking bosses
Cons:
- An uninspiring trip into fantasy, Visually displeasing, Not enough to crafting system
- could have been great, Skill trees don't provide enough difference, A truly half-hearted experience
12 years ago
Bound By Flame review
As anyone who struggled through Orphen on the PS2 will tell you, the first RPG of a hardware generation is rarely an impressive experience. The vast amount of content that needs to be created for your average dungeon-crawler also makes them quite rare in the first year of any console.
12 years ago
Bound by Flame PS4 Review: great action RPG potential in rough packaging
It takes something special for potential to overtake shortcomings, and that notion holds fast in the gaming industry, where even the smallest of faults can deteriorate the perception of AAA titles.
12 years ago
Bound By Flame Review
Bound By Flame likes RPG tropes so much, it features every single one of them. They're all here, including choice-driven narrative and karma-determined character appearance. It can be justifiably described as the poorer cousin of almost every RPG that's been released in the last 15 years.
12 years ago
Bound by Flame Review
Bound By Flame has one huge strength: the harmony between its entertaining combat and role-playing systems. Granted, its weak storytelling does weigh it down, and its performance on PS4 is a bit of a bummer, but the strong core of its gameplay powers it through to transcend these flaws.
Pros:
- Responsive combat
- Meaningful progression
- Fitting music
Cons:
- Inconsistent writing and voice acting
- Meaningless story choices
12 years ago
When's the last time you played a game that was both great and awful? Well if you're the kind of person who likes to categorise games into the good and the bad, Bound by Flame is here to teach you the folly of false dichotomies.
12 years ago
Bound by Flame Review
In Bound by Flame, Spiders deliver an action-RPG that just about manages to remain playable throughout, but offers not a single "wow" moment. An interesting but limited crafting system and an atmospheric fantasy world don't make up for run-of-the-mill writing, 2-dimensional characters, imbalanced...
12 years ago
"Bound By Flame is like a low budget B-movie that exposes how silly fantasy can be when it tries to be cool." © 2014 Focus Home Entertainment, Spiders Studio. All rights reserved.
Pros:
- Good character progression
- some funny dialogue
- fun combat..
Cons:
- ...that gets repetitive
- generic questing
- story feels unfinished
- poorly executed player choice
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