Booklet's Big Story

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The game is awesome. The devs of this game must be really cool people

Booklet's Big Story is a really charming platformer that I liked almost immediately because of its unusual main character. I play as Booklet, an empty storybook that lives in a magical library and wants to discover its own story. I thought that was a lovely premise because the platforming adventure is also being used to tell a story about feeling different and trying to find where I belong. The gameplay mixes platforming with puzzle solving, and I enjoyed how the abilities are connected to different fictional genres. As Booklet travels through the library, new abilities help me deal with obstacles and explore more complicated areas. The movement is straightforward enough to understand quickly, but the levels still ask me to think about how I can combine my abilities to get through them. The genre theme is one of the most creative parts. Fantasy, science fiction and noir sections each have their own ideas and visual identity, so the adventure does not feel like a single repetitive environment. I liked how the game uses those different genres not just as decoration but as part of the actual puzzle design. The emotional story also works surprisingly well. Booklet is the only storyb…

"Booklet's Big Story" is basically a tech demo from a failed game dev startup. It's a very poorly made third person 3D platformer where you control a book and you run around a library trying to find a place to belong. Not, apparently, as part of a successful game development team. Whimsical narrative in games is fine if it's backed up by a solid, professional look and feel, and all the polish we expect from such games, and that's all absent here. The game has a bunch of mismatched assets that you'll observe as you travel inbetween magical book worlds as an empty story book. And that's how we know the developers don't know about the Dewey Decimal System, because no book is going on a shelf in a library without fitting there. Visually, the game looks pretty bad (and decent visuals are a must, gaming is a visual medium), we can be sure this is not an asset flip. This is because the game assets look so bad, no self respecting asset creator would publish them. That's a fail. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets of any level of quality usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development p…

Cute story, wish it was longer. Controls sucks as well as the camera angles. Lots of glitching and skipping. No options to change volume of narrator and music(on my Rog Ally the music is louder than the narrator) Overall 8/10 for the story, 4/10 for controls and gameplay.

Adorable and charming. A lovely, easy platforming game. 10/10 i love the narrator