Born of Bread

Born of Bread is one of the easier paper-likes you'll play, I had a good idea and say it's worth buying. I only encountered one game breaking bug, it's very small and at the very end of the game, I talk about it at the end of this review. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] [h3]Battle[/h3] Enemies have resistances and weaknesses, they reduce and increase damage you deal respectively. There's an item early on you can easily miss that shows you these, you can get it once you obtain your first partner, give it a good search. Partners have different moves you unlock by smashing salamanders and turning in their souls to a nun. These moves also have types, but can also have different effects to apply debuffs or and heal you. Loaf, the main character you play as, unlocks new attacks by finding weapons, each having their own types and use cases for dispatching enemies. Loaf also has special moves, first two are self buffs that really aren't worth your time, half way through the game you start getting attacks for this category, which still aren't really worth it versus the raw damage you can get from weapons. Loaf's attacks and partner attacks use "WP", Loaf's special attacks use RP, each time you level up you can choose between adding 3 points to, I never felt need to put a point into RP. [h3]Equipment[/h3] You have consumables, weapons, and boons.[list] [*]Consumables regain you HP, WP, HP & WP, or RP. There are no buff items. [*]Weapons fit into your backpack space in a Tetris format [*]Boons increase your HP/WP, give you more damage on a condition, or have other useful effects such as showing you enemy resistances/weaknesses as mentioned above.[/list] [h1]Writing[/h1] Actually good writing, every NPC has some kind of dialogue worth reading whether it be for entertainment or providing you tips. [h1]Glitches[/h1] I didn't encounter many issues, so I'll list them all here, one is game breaking.[list] [*]Enemies in the final levels have an attack that doesn't work correctly and will soft-lock the fight. By the end, you should have the power to kill them all in one turn. [*]The house in chapter 3 occasionally doesn't load the level's visuals correctly when you enter the area, it doesn't affect gameplay and is easily fixed by leaving and reentering the room. [*]The sound will start messing up if you play too long.[/list]

I'd give it a 7/10. This game definitely has some noticeable issues. There are quite a few bugs that make playing frustration since you have to restart the game to get rid of them. Overall its worth a playthrough if you enjoy Paper Mario.

Excelente RPG de turnos com "atividade", na mesma pegada de Paper Mario e Bug Fables. Bastante exploração, bem humorado e com excelente arte. Fortemente recomendado pros amantes do gênero.

Initially pulled in by the art style and backpack management puzzle idea, I had a good time playing this game. The story/writing was enjoyable and funny. The art really did shine and was a big reason I pushed through what was a repetitive and mostly uninteresting battle system. Once you unlock the "hit everyone" attacks, you basically just spam those attacks and do little else in battles. Leveling up heals you and restores all of your attack points and this happens every few battles and I rarely ran out of points to use for attacks until the end of the game. But then you just use your items or do a round of defending which recovers the attack points, the. You're good to go again. The battle system has a fun feature where you're "live streaming" your battle and there are bonuses for doing what chat suggest. But I never found the need to do this, so it fell a bit flat, but I did like the idea of having chat watch along, I just wish it was implemented better. There are special skill attacks, again I didn't really find much of a use for them, I think there's a lot of balancing to be done to make these systems all work together properly. Despite the battles being fairly easy/boring I did enjoy the story and running around finding collectables for upgrades and colour pallettes (though I didn't like the alternative colours). Worth a play, but I think it needed more time to bake 😉

This game should been left in the oven a bit more, it felt rushed for sure, The combat is flawed in the sense where your partner for the most part will not take any damage unless you use the defend action during their turn, while yes you can switch the partner to be in front, you will lose your action with the MC and if you use an attack with the partner they will not stay in front making the whole point of switching pointless, not only you lose on an action with the MC the sole reason to switch which is usually make the partner take some of the damage instead of MC. Then we have some of the status effects where they effect the enemies attack speed by making it either slower or faster, it's the most useless effects I ever seen and its more detrimental since it can throw your block timing off. The Story didn't stick out, it felt short and rushed specially at end. The music and the areas are nice at least.

Офигенная игра! Купил её довольно дорого, по 90% скидке, Геймплей сначала не понравился, типо карточные тактические игры, но тут нету прям сильно много чего запоминать из тактики, а то бывает в тактиках СЛИШКОМ много механик что это просто пипец, тут всё хорошо. Также сюжет милый, хороший, и простой. Единственное- оно плохо поддерживает клавиатуру, тоесть некоторые кто поиграют поймут, и скорее всего поэтому у этого произведения чуть меньше очень хорошей оценки, но всё же она очень прикольная. Баги по типу: - Ты не можешь листать по списку задач, только на контролере сможешь. - Нету изменения управлений, тоесть каких то настроек управления нет, тоесть забыл как на что нажимать - это твоя проблема. - На некоторых сцен, игра застревает, картинка всё ещё двигается, но ты не на что не можешь нажать.

This is super cute and I've really enjoyed it so far. I'm probably only 1/4 of the way through. I plan on finishing, just saving it for another time like a special treat. There's so much to explore and do, the menu / your notebook is complex but it all makes sense, the map is dense with information but the story flows easily. This is a world you can really get lost in. A lot like a fairy tale with teaching lessons about the right thing to do and the power of friendship and family and things don't go as planned but that's what life is all about.

My favorite Paper Mario like game on steam, Adds some unique mechanics I really like (backpack management, damage/element types, etc) and keeps some classic mechanics (Badges, partners, etc). Has a few considerable bugs, but I really enjoyed my time with it!

I love this game's artstyle, it has a fun story and saturday morning cartoon vibes. You can tell it was made with love and it feels great to experience