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Lots of lively characters headed upKnight Noah is valuable, and it helps me a lot when I fall in love with this game; I have benefited many from it. Knight turns out to be unexpectedly lighthearted. It is a game with birds that can inexplicably project holographs from their eyes, drunken midget furriers lying around on farms, airships, princesses and ridiculous giant robot transformation sequences, replete with awesomely wailing rock guitars.
Knight does have rather a lot riding on it, though. It is been disappointment after disappointment with JRPG lately in the face of ever increasing strength from their Western competitors. It is an ambitious game, too, attempting to lure Japanese players online by forging a battle and gameplay system that works simultaneously as a single player, story based RPG and as an online cooperative one. And despite the numerous inevitable difficulties with such a far reaching mission statement, Level 5 has done a fine job.
The game stars a band of lively characters headed up. The world is a mix of medieval swords and sorcery and occasional random futurism; the titular Knight is supposedly an ancient warrior spirit, but he looks far more like a massive shiny white robot. Lenard can transform into him in battle at any time once you have saved up enough action points, but usually it is best to save it for the boss fights, which are nearly always preceded by hilarious action cut scenes that culminate in at least one transformation sequence. Lenard is not the only one with that trick up his sleeve, see enemies have a habit of unexpectedly transforming as well.
Leveling up earns each character skill points that are put towards unlocking new moves or capabilities in each of the weapon and magic disciplines. You can specialize and unlock the majority of the moves in a particular discipline quite early in the game, allowing you to start experimenting with combos as soon as possible, but spending time gleefully unlocking things in the skill menus and working them into your battle strategy is a great joy in Knight right up to the final hours and beyond, when you take the game online.
