The Knightling

Had a great time with The Knightling and managed to get all the achievements. The world has been wonderfully crafted with a great musical score to keep you company. The story is sweet and endearing. It's obvious that this game is a labor of love and it is abundantly clear that a lot of work went into making it. If you like an open world action adventure game with story, combat, and exploration then this is certainly a game worth checking out!

Decent game. The Knightling is an adventure platformer which are somehow kind of rare these days. Your main character is a squire to a famous knight and gets stuck lugging around his super shield. The shield allows you to do a few techniques that help you in moving around, like gliding or sliding on it. The movement feels pretty good in the game, especially the various little tricks you can use in order to move around the map faster, like bunny hopping on your shield to get micro speed boosts. There's a lot of verticality involved in having to find your way on top of things (or sliding down them). Climbed up onto a building by using a jutting polygon to land on and reset your double jump? The game doesn't care, and probably assumed you were gonna try that to begin with. There's lots of stuff to find around the map, most of which give money and parts that you use to upgrade your shield or exp points to learn new combat skills. Combat is passable. You can strategically block/parry/counter everything which is quite safe, or be more aggressive with attacks. Nothing amazing here but no real flaws either. Story is mediocre but the worldbuilding for the setting and little region of the world you're in is strong. Music is quite nice, especially the themes while you're roaming the open world. All in all a solid experience.

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I wish I could give this 3/4 a thumbs up! I think it's a good game, and I do recommend it, but it's marred by a handful of frustrations. It's the kind of game that if it had come out twenty years ago it'd probably be considered a cult classic or hidden gem. I find that it's both a neat platformer with fun movement tech and also a fairly difficult combat game, but it does all of this in a mix of good and middling ways. Feels a bit like the team wanted to have their cake and eat it too. I think if it were more focused on the shield skating and platformer movement techs it probably would have been a more fun game, the combat feels like it can get in the way sometimes and overall it wasn't the best part. I think even the team making the game knew that the combat wasn't the best part, as there is an option in the settings to turn on Immortal mode. They say it's an accessibility option (and it is) but I think it's also a crutch for a combat system that isn't very good. The game has a wonderful art style and some genuinely great animation and character acting within that animation (Gynni is an absolutely standout, so expressive!) The story is fairly rote but well told, and I generally enjoyed myself throughout. I largely ignored side quests and other activities as they weren't holding my attention, but there's plenty here if you're enjoying it all. I did find that the last section of the game (with hostile magic towers that auto-target you from halfway across the map lobbing fireballs at you) to be pretty annoying and half-baked. Interesting ideas that all kind of clashed together in a way that I felt pretty actively annoyed by, but I had enjoyed the rest of the game enough to push through that frustration. Anyway I still think I recommend it, but just be warned that there are rough edges.

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