no earthly idea why some knock it!
Firstly, it is supposed to be a light archadae game. and the amination and atmosphere is awesome! especially the articulation of the knights and monsters! Anyone who wants to put their brain in neutral for a time and just have fun it's great! I am an experienced gamer and play some intense games. -some of those gamess seem to take themselves too seriously.
no this does not have an intense story arch.
no it is not a dark-somber tale of tragedy, triump and deep "moving" characters. but who cares!
what it is, it's a remake(spiritualy) of NES Ghosts and Goblins and SNES's Super Ghosts n Gouls and about as fun! Any who appriecates classics with an intense graphic upgrade would love it like it was an enhanced verision of GnG games! Your character is a strait foreward enough Knight, but he has the ability to upgrade his hitting and damage taking power via his wheapon(depicted by sword icon in numerical power ups) and his armour,(depicted, as armour is by a shiled icon and numerical powerups) you can boost your total max health, and get better equipment. But remember, when you leave a level you only get to keep what you have readied, not standby wheapons! so if you want that tower shiled and the ;mace when you start cracking undead bones on level 3, you need those selected before entering the gateway!
The graphics are very remenescent of a game called "Overlords" and are gorgious with all the gothic high vaulted cathedral-like settings. The checkered tile very medieval and everything selected works. The opponent's animation is very articulate and they die writhing. The play character's movement is a little slow he cannot run(unless they fix that) and he cannot jump. But in armour, honestly, would you!? He CAN straife, which is (IMO) the BEST way to dodge attacks anyway! the WASP keys are key to most effective gameplay and they are utilzed quite well here! I wish one could jujmp and turn and attack, but this game is an archade and it does what it is meant to!
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