Behind The Knight Witch, a friendly and cute looking shoot’em up hides an infernal Bullethell that will put an end to your patience.
Jhe knight witch is the fifth title of the independent study Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team. Founded in 2009 and based in Valence It’s a fairly sketchy team that brought this cute and hellish shoot’em up to life. A game that could well be defined as a sheepskin wolf. If you want to know why, keep reading.
Story
As we said, The witch knight are kill them or a bullet hell. Defining it a bit is a game we’ll be in all the time pull and dodging enemies and gunfire in a 2d side-scrolling storyline. The title story takes place on a dystopian planet Earth where industrial corporations and the government led by the emperor have destroyed the balance between humanity and the nature, causing the planet to be on the verge of collapse. In this context, four Witch Knights, a kind of fairies or witches endowed with powers, will fight against evil. emperor and his huge army of golems. The power of our heroines resides in the people, a good comparison with a democratic political ideal. The more popular support our witches have, the more powerful they become. Thanks to the fact that almost the whole planet supports them, they manage to defeat the Emperor.
However, all this will come too late. the planet is already collapsed, there is no hope for people or our environment. The only alternative left to them is to take refuge in the depths of the Earth. One will find there by chance an ancestral city, Dungeons
Metroidvania, Souls and Shoot’em Up
We have already spoken of The witch knight It’s shoot ’em up. as well BulletHell (hell bullets) the screen will be full of enemies and blows that we will have to dodge so as not to die. Our heroine has life spheres that quickly drop each time we receive a hit. impact. Rayne the protagonist will float through the scenarios, and will shoot anything that moves. We are therefore faced with a manual shoot’em up. A character or ship that fires all the time and moves for a circle 2d. But the Spanish study went further.
The scenarios are neither linear nor flat. It has a metroidvania style, that is to say labyrinthine and very platforms, although our protagonist doesn’t step on it because it’s flying. We will have to find the best way to move forward, avoiding enemies and traps.
The way forward, on the other hand, is quite complicated. Enemies won’t stop attacking us all the time and every time we die they will restaurant Everybody. Most of the time we will reach the end of the naked stage of life and die several times before we get there. But don’t worry, because in true FromSoftware style, at the end of the path we can unlock a shortcut to get there quickly from the last respawn. In The witch knight He is reappear where savepoints are called Akai Links and they work in the style of the bonfires of a dark souls.
Letters too?
The way we will have to eliminate enemies is very varied, our witch can shoot like a machine gun and try to kill everyone with blows or use magic abilities. In other words, we can focus on being a Knight
if you read the little ones, letters of course. And it is that the magic of The Knight Witch is made up of more than 30 cards of spells which can be combined with each other to choose the one we like the most.
Not for variety
Not to get bogged down in this, we’re basically going to build a deck of cards, but we’ll only have 3 to use at a time. When we use it, it will disappear from the options and be replaced by another, or by the same, it depends on how we have the the little complied. cost of playing cards mana that we will get by defeating enemies, so we will have to be careful how we spend it. These letters are hidden by all the scenes, and to explore them as well metroidvania This will be the key to forming a good deck. To the extent that Rayne Move forward and kill golems or final bosses, people’s support will increase and it will level up our little witch. Moment when we will have to choose whether or not to improve the damage of spells
gameplay
The game has a design of levels typically metroidvania. This hides a lot secrets, shortcuts, routes alternatives and hidden rewards. Graphically, The Knight Witch does not clash. In many Shoot’em Ups this is the least polished section, but it is not. The witch knight It has an art-friendly design, featuring characters and settings with a touch of Disney designs. The Knight Witch uses a palette of colors pastel which may make you think the game is aimed at a more childish audience, but nothing could be further from the truth. The difficulty which presents the title is very high.
Advance through the levels without dying it will be an odyssey; And finishing off the last bosses in ambushes will take many, many attempts. One thing that helped me get rid of screen shaking when something is broken or destroyed, because so much “shaking” can cause you to lose references and find yourself riddled with hundreds of bullet holes.
CONCLUSION
The witch knight It’s a title with a childish look, with colorful and friendly decorations. However, its mechanics and level of difficulty are closer to a title souls that of a platform for children. The inclusion of a deck mechanic in our Witch’s powers and the randomness of them will make it difficult to find the pattern or combination”easy” at play is impossible. It’s a title that will appeal to a wide range of gamers, shoot’em up enthusiasts, metroidvania and of course crazy about complicated challenges. The title gave me the same feeling as when I was playing Tunic. But not because of its game mechanics, but because of its high difficulty unlike such childish art design. The knight witch is undoubtedly a formidable lo bo with skin of cordero and it will be a challenge for anyone who dares to play it.
The witch knight
Advantages
- Quick game
- great difficulty
- Good combination of mechanics
- Exquisite level design
The inconvenients
- Difficulty for some may be too high
- story with little hook
- Map little worked and detailed
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