Another errant knight – review of the game “A Knight’s Quest”

Less than two years ago, the phenomenal game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came to the market with the new Nintendo console, i.e. Switch .  Not only did it squeeze the last sweat out of the new device of the Japanese company at that time, it was extremely warmly received by players. No wonder, because it was incredibly addictive. Although it was a part of “The Legend of Zelda”, it was probably the first to have such an amazing momentum. It was only a matter of time before the world would see a similar production from some smaller studio. It was certain that sooner or later someone would try their hand at confronting the legend. Thus, after two years, without much echo, A Knight’s Quest came to the gaming market. This otherwise very nice title, despite its flaws and shortcomings, managed to chained me to the console for a moment, but I think that this state was primarily due to some irrational nostalgia. After watching the trailer and a few screenshots, the game felt very familiar to me. Somewhere in the back of my head, I flicked with memories of hours spent walking through crazy arcade games at the first “plejaku”. I would say that this fact determined the willingness to try the game even more than the similarity to the already mentioned “Legend of Zelda”. Well, there was no other advice than to play this game to see if A Knight’s Quest is just a poor imitator of Nintendo’s production, and I had the wrong impression that maybe this funny little game really has something to it. So let’s find out.

Tilting at windmills? Not completely…

What is this game really about? Well, in A Knight’s Quest we play the role of a rather clumsy, pink-haired adventurer named Rusty. The action of the production starts a bit from a thick pipe, which, I must admit, surprised me a bit. Not even a brief introduction, just dungeons, collapses and skeletons right away. It is a pity, because we could use at least an outline of what awaits us – but on the other hand, I am not surprised by the producers that they did this. Let’s face it, A Knight’s Questit is not some kind of an arch-immersive game that will plague us with complicated moral dilemmas and a multi-threaded plot. The situation is quite simple: we go to some dungeons, we mess up and awaken the ancient evil, and then we have to clean up all this mess. To do this, we need to find equally mythical heroes. End of song. Before that, however, we will travel through quite a lot of all kinds of caves, temples, jungles and so on, and this is the strength of this type of production. It is no different this time, because in terms of gameplay A Knight’s Questis a typical action adventure game and even quite fun. Our hero will therefore travel through countless tunnel maps, in which sometimes you will have to jump or run on the wall like the Prince of Persia himself. What’s more, sometimes there is even a puzzle that we will have to take a moment to move on. In the meantime, there will also be opponents who, although they do not pose a particular challenge individually, tend to be problematic in the group. Sometimes an even more serious opponent will happen, but fortunately the game allows us to get past him and return with better equipment. Speaking of equipment, as befits a purebred adventure game, Rusty can carry a sack of various herbs, regenerative potions and all kinds of toadstools. More importantly, apart from clutter, we will also find better weapons from time to time, thanks to which we will be able to exterminate the next hordes of enemies even more effectively. Nothing fancy, but the production is actually a bit of fun.

Don Quixote of La Mancha  is not …

A Knight’s Quest is a pretty nice game that is even fun to play. Nevertheless, its at most quasi-zeld setting, both visual and sound, is of a fairly average level. The graphic layer looks relatively good as long as the locations are quite dark and not much is happening in them. Whenever there’s a little light, some problems emerge, the biggest one being perhaps the poor texture quality. Not only that someone exaggerated with the saturation of colors, but also sometimes clearly visible pixels were visible. Also some levels were rough at best. It is most visible in the suburbs that we visit at the beginning of the game, and what struck me the most was the artificial limitations of the map in the form of a glowing grid. Fortunately, things were still a little better. As for the models and animations, they were correct. The characters were not of the highest caliber, but nevertheless fit this cartoonish atmosphere, and their movements did not dazzle the eyes. In turn, I have the impression that the sound of the game has passed completely by me. In this respect, it must be said directly that it is somehow… vague. You can hear something there and basically that’s it. The sounds of fighting, moving and interacting with the environment just are there. It seems to me that it is because of this frame that is limping at times they just are moving and interacting with their environment. It seems to me that it is because of this frame that is limping at times they just are moving and interacting with their environment. It seems to me that it is because of this frame that is limping at timesI associated Knight’s Quest with former PSX productions.

We would like to thank the publisher of Curve Digital for making a copy of the game (PS4) available for review.