Riverbond is a dudgeon crawler isometric adventure. It's a fun game with some glaring issues that is hard to ignore.
Pros:
- Graphics. Well use of lighting with a voxel art design.
- The game is fun to play choosing a vast variety of weapons and outfits
- The level design is pretty good with destructible environments and variety of biomes
- 2 player couch co-op which is very fun to play with kids
Cons:
- The music is fine but is the same track for all worlds
- The objectives are not overly different from one another. May have a slight story impact, but I gave up hunting the plot after the 2rd world
- The bosses have some movements to recall, but no major boss stage or mechanic difference between all bosses
- The biggest issue is the gameplay loop is very repetitive, if you have done one world, you have done them all. The last 3 worlds are slightly harder but more of the same.
It took me 5 hours to finish the game with little replay value outside getting a high score or higher rank. But if you have done one of the 9 worlds, you have pretty much seen what is on offer.