The Plucky Squire

Performance

The 2D sections run pretty well on the switch. Occasional frame drops but nothing too crazy. It seems to struggle more with more entities on screen.


The 3D sections, however, run quite poorly. Especially noticeable in Chapter 4 as there is more going on in that 3D level compared to the previous.


Load times between pages can sometimes take a bit longer then expected. Longest counted was about 7 seconds.


Chapter 5 - At this point we started noticing the game running a lot worse. Walking around Artia has a noticeably low framerate. The 3D section is even worse. Once you get to the house and start hitting the furniture it drops even more.

In the house if you jump on one of the beds you can get stuck in the wall. Jump a few more times to get out


Framerate improves on chapter 6.

First game reset due to a glitch occurred when we had to get the block of cheese in front of the mouse that sits in the cave. Camera stayed zoomed in and we couldn't get out of it. Lost 30 mins of progress.
Tried again, the same issue occurred.

We were able to bypass this issue by finishing the puzzle in a different way: Originally, we were changing the block to cheese first and then sliding it back into place by tilting the book. This caused the game to zoom in on the mouse and not leave that state.
We ended up sliding the block first and then changing it to cheese after it was back in place, which ultimately worked.


In chapter 6 there are reports of a game breaking bug. We did not encounter it during this playthrough.


No major issues in chapter 7 and 8 (just framerate).


In chapter 9 we encountered an issue where we died from a laser while dragging a box, which caused the box to not respawn. We had to quit the game and start from a previous save as we could not progress.


After saving Thrash there is a section where you have to move a block around that has metamagic. We believe the intended way is to go back to the previous page, drop the barrier and then go back outside the book to use a bomb to send the block to its correct placing. There is a bug that stops you from going back to the green portal (there is a yellow barrier raised). So you need to place the bomb first before going back to the previous page as the bomb can still be activated in 2D mode.


Another glitch in chapter 9, just before the elevator, one of the big henchmen can get stuck and that stops you from progressing as you need to defeat all enemies to do so. Had to go back to the last save to fix this.


Languages (confirmed): English

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