King Arthur: Knight's Tale

This game showed promise, but I gradually lost interest and eventually stopped playing. My first issue was the lack of customization for knights. I expected a mix of story-based characters and the ability to create custom ones to complete the roster. Unfortunately, all knights are tied to the story, with no customization options. I came to accept that, but then discovered the 12-knight limit. With over 30 knights available, you’re forced to dismiss some to make room for others. Even if you build a large castle, you can’t have more than 12 characters at a time, which means letting go of early companions if you want to recruit later ones. I had hoped to reach New Game+ and collect all knights from the different morality paths, but the 12-knight cap makes this impossible. Changing morality also creates conflicts with certain knights if you switch to their opposing alignment. Combat feels slow, and the system of exploring maps before engaging in battles didn’t appeal to me. It made missions feel longer than necessary. Rebuilding Camelot is also slow and doesn’t feel very rewarding. I’m sure many players will still enjoy the game—it’s not bad—but these issues caused me to lose interest, and I no longer feel motivated to finish it.

[b]My review after 100% completion[/b] King Arthur: Knight's Tale is a good TRPG with turn-based tactics. Characters development is pretty solid with quite a lot of skills for you to choose from when you level up. Story is interesting while not amazing. The game might be quite challenging if you play with a high difficulty setting. It can definitely satisfy TRPG veterans in terms of difficulty. UI and graphics are what attract me most to be honest. I personally love this art-style. This can easily be one of my favourite TRPGs of all time. Recommend? Yes, but be warned that the game may be quite challenging for some people.

In general, this game does a decent job of being a tactical rpg, it just isn't hitting the sweet spot for me enough to recommend it. Pros: - Abundant base-building upgrade system and gear upgrades etc - Combat is understandable even for those not as familiar with tactical games Cons: - Some of the npc voiceovers are great, but some of them sound like they were computer generated, enough to be jarring and put me off. - The choices of fighting companions is limited. I wanted old faith followers for my Camelot, but after 19 hours, not one has been found. Having to always take devout Christians with me was an annoyance. - In general I found the game okay, but got bored of it quickly. It feels closer to a grind doing the story campaign, than fun as the missions are fairly long and it gets tedious as the fights are quite similar. This isn't a bad game. I think people who like the genre would probably find it fine to play. It just wasn't enough fun for me to keep playing it.

Не смотря на то, что игра мрачная, она невероятно уютная. + Никакого "шанса на попадание". Роляют только расстановка и тактика. + Небольшие локации для миссий. Удобно исследовать. Никакого огромного полупустого открытого мира. + Интересные навыки и их улучшения. Хочется взять их все. + Никаких хитро выверченных классов с миллионом характеристик. Воин со щитом, воин с двуручкой, лучник, ассассин, маг. Качаем им только навыки без чесания репы, что взять +1 к силе или +1 к здоровью. + Есть база, история с какими-то событиями и выборами. Нисколько они не напрягают, наоборот, разбавляют игру между миссиями. + Всё красивое, всё летает, отличная оптимизация. Отличная игра для любителей пошаговок и тактики. Кому там медленно и скучно, могут пойти в роблокс приграть.

TL;DR - NOT RECOMMENDING IT 4/10 Game is okay. Full price? NOPE. Won’t recommend it even to TRPG lovers unless the discount is good. 50% minimum. First act IS fun! The premise is great. Loads to do, many dialogues to enjoy. Great variety of enemies—before you realise they are reskins after a while. The game relies on RNG loot, and there is a strong meta, especially later. BAD. Gets repetitive fast. Undercooked after halfway through Act 2, story- and gameplay-wise. EVEN the voice acting gets weaker. Yikes. Endgame? Nope. Stat-bloated mobs. Zero effort. Bandits with 300 HP :o). Yep. After defeating a demigod, now the common bandit has more HP than the demigod hunters. HARD pass. Replayability? Not really worth the effort for a couple of extra dialogues. Long version The game captivated me when I started playing. The story grappled me mercilessly and took me for a ride. A twist on the classic Arthur tale, but now we are Mordred. GREAT! The premise? You ARE Mordred and decide what you want to do. Balance loyalty, build your kingdom, conquer the wastes, and have religion! This is mandatory. No, you do not get to be neutral here. You are going to miss out on content if you do, sadly. How does the game deliver? Not greatly. The castle itself is undercooked. Your “vassals” are for show, outside of some ‘upgrades’ you can give them through titles. That is it.”. And you do not have any income, even though you are the ruler of a “kingdom.” It feels more like a squad building a base, yet you are the “king”? So am I a ruler or not? Make up your mind, game. I take in gold AND building materials from missions, and sometimes, when the game feels like it, events also grant you SOME, and yet… nothing else? This one aggravates me. The castle itself must be upgraded BY you, using your hard-earned resources. Balancing is a word. I would not use it here. Economical drain to keep you down? Yes! Because GOD forbid you get something for yourself. Nada. Either your castle or your crew. You can be good/bad and Old Faith/Christian, and your companions react to it with loyalty. This gives your companions benefits. Problem? Barely any events that are meaningful. Sure some "click this box" and something happens, but that is it. Sure, there are some, but it is watered down heavily. They tried in Act 2. Then they stopped for some reason. Dialogue, though? The same dialogue you have heard 100 times over. Not much will change, sadly. The RNG aspect of this game is ASININE. One of the WORST experiences in a LONG time for me. And I've played games for almost 20 years now. Wait one turn to upgrade X. Will it be good, though? Who knows… but you have to wait. It is one thing to make you wait, but the COST is also insane. You are rerolling constantly, and the game has far too many bloated stat rolls. It keeps you down, and even lower-level gear can OUTPERFORM level 20 gear with the right rolls on it. That is just plainly sad. Can you reroll multiple items? NOPE! One at a time Bucko! Can't have you get what you want SO easily. Does that mean the game has a form of "farming" space to make up for it? HELL no. You can get ABSOLUTELY shafted by the game itself if you are some down-on-his-luck, mirror-breaking-under-a-ladder type of person. What is up with TRPGs having God-awful random gear and gambling mechanics nowadays? Did you ask for this? I didn’t. Nobody did? Just ... why??? Voice acting - Its here and there. Random. Small number of them are great! Mordred voice actor is PULLING a lot of weight. The rest of the cast ? Ehh ... not gonna lie, not the best. Cutscenes - Not great. The Lady of the lake looks ... "weird" Uncanny valley type. What's up with HER face?! It looks so STATIC! And ROUND. Isn't she supposed to be the fairest maiden of the land? If that's the fairest, HO boy, we are in trouble. Story? Yeah, it is there… it was developed and then it… got abandoned. Imagine a 3 course meal. The entrée?(act 1) Amazing! Great! The main course?(act 2-3) Bit bland but the entre is still on your tongue so you leave it be. The dessert?(Act 4 and endgame) OH nope. its awful. you ask for the bill, and leave. Rush and undercooking are clearly present in the world. I do not assume what happened here, only the results. I want to love this game, and I do. But I can see something got into a car crash here. BADLY. Combat? It is great… for the first 30 times. Then you realise you have seen it all. Repetition, and sometimes sneaky ambushes with mobs designed to chip your HP at the start of Chapter 3, which I find annoying. Either that, OR some random “Diablo mob variant blessing” that nerfs YOU or buffs the enemy. Bloody hell. The sound effects are okay. Not top-tier, but fun-ish? I do like the overwatch mode for melee and the fact that you can backstab with anyone. There are GREAT premises in here. Love, and attention to the game itself. But execution wise? Nada. Meta OH boy. There is a meta here. Once you assemble four or five—maybe six—members of the roster, you are good. The rest? Yeah, the “training” grounds are not enough to keep them levelled, but the GAME demands the levels, or you get bent quickly unless your gear makes up for it. This leaves most of your large roster sitting around doing nothing. Experimenting with new knights means grinding, hoping the training grounds catch them up, or giving them gear that your actual team needs. So why give me this many characters when the game clearly expects me to use the same small group repeatedly? AND that leads to the endgame. Overbloated mobs. Zero thought. And they call it endgame. There is an "endgame pool" you can start investing in. But the stats? Redundant, unworthy, and weak. Meanwhile bob here with a hatchet has more health than MOTHAF***ING ARTHUR WHO WAS AN ENDGAME BOSS HAD. Why? why why why. Dammit. This endgame is the BIGGEST reason the points fall BELOW my recommendation. Overall criticism - I want to recommend this game. But the game is kind of old now so we won't see any new updates to fix certain issues. If you see this game under 75% sale? Sure! Try it out. I'd not pay more than 5 - 10 bucks for it. BUT at its CURRENT price 45 Euros? HELL no. Nada. Take care, y’all. And remember: if a random Lady throws a sword near you, it’s probably a Fae trying to pull you into a scheme. Don’t be like Arthur. Be smart. Walk away. Aquatic sword distribution is not a legitimate basis for government.

It's pretty meh overall. There are some cool concepts and its fun to level up your characters, but the visual presentation is oppressively grey and boring, the exploration is a meaningless chore, the base building seems like an unrelated task, and the tactical gameplay itself is quite shallow.

I don't usually write reviews for Steam games, but I love this game so much, I thought to put down a few lines. Have you played Larian-style games (such as Divinity series and BG3)? In such games, I always get frustrated by over-complex plot lines and having to frequently google solutions to puzzles. I don't like puzzles. I like the tactical aspect of RPG-game combat and the strategy that goes in how to build your party and manage resources. *This* game has all the combat/ strategy/ tactics fun and *none*of the disagreeable over-complex plot/ puzzle stuff. It's just perfect for gamers like me and I can't wait to get more of it (in the form of expansions etc.)

Некое утешение после огорчившей меня Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. Knight's tale это такое же зацикленное на себе самом тёмное фэнтези, как и "Грааль", но, в отличие от последнего, артуриановский миф здесь представлен значительно более узнаваемо и щедро. Внезапно Knight's tale это в самом деле история о рыцарстве и подвигах, о Круглом столе и том самом Святом Граале — в отличие от той другой игры, где всё это лишь знакомые слова. Разве что сам сюжет видится ещё более аморфным и разобщённым, — якобы, волею языческой богини благородные рыцари Британии — которые, вообще-то, христиане, — после смерти попадают на загадочный остров Авалон, и там существует свой собственный замок Камелот, подданные-свинопасы, а также орды врагов, с которыми требуется бороться для всеобщего блага. Игра представляет собой пошаговую тактику с долгосрочными последствиями — когда ты можешь выиграть множество битв, но в итоге проиграть войну, потому что в казне не осталось денег, а твои подданные лежат искалеченными в госпитале, или вовсе в крипте. При этом игра достаточно дружелюбна к играющему, и чрезмерным испытаниям его не подвергает. Игровой процесс схематичен, но содержателен, а дизайн боёв выдался на редкость продуманным и удобным — это чуть ли не единственная известная мне игра жанра, где промахи отсутствуют как явление (не считая накладываемых колдуном проклятий). Из интересного, каждый персонаж Knight's tale это в том или ином роде личность, на лояльность которых влияют решения игрока, продиктованные его моралью и религиозностью. Правда, взаимоотношений даже на уровне Dragon Age: Origins от героев ждать не приходится — в отряде могут быть как добрые друзья, так и отец с дочерью, но они и словом друг с другом не обмолвятся. Самый большой изъян Knight's tale кроется в очень неспешном развитии сценического действия, а иже с ним и геймплейных возможностей. Нужно быть готовым к тому, что первый акт игры, составляющий примерно 15 часов, это один большой туториал, в рамках которого ты будешь избивать одних и тех же трёх врагов одной и той же способностью героя, вместо движения по основному сюжету ограничиваясь исключительно побочными заданиями — если их игнорировать, у тебя не хватит никаких сил на основной квест. В остальном Knight's tale это отличный вариант для неспешного коротания вечеров со вкусом фэнтезийного эпика. Сэр Кей с легендарным дрыном и кольцом телепортации это кошмар любого пикта.