Bound: PS4 Review Platform: PS4 Developed by Plastic Released by Sony Santa Monica Over the past few months, there have been teases of a game that showed off a dancer moving to the gameplay of a platformer. As the silhouette pirouetted around the screen and in and out of structures, there seemed to be a liquid beauty on show and a sense of something different emerging. Thus it is with Bound, the new platformer. It opens with a pregnant woman being dropped off and walking to a beach where she stares into the waves - and then it dissolves into another world where the initial creature we've seen on the teases is told her kingdom is under threat and she must fight the monster. And that is all that should be said for story for Bound. Wrapping visuals with a platformer work well for Bound, and the Journey comparisons seem fair given how the two games are pushing for an enigmatic vibe. But more specifically, and visually, imagine if Sound Shapes visual ethos had been melded with Journey a...
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