G.G Series: The Last Knight

Genre: Top-Down Action

Players: 1

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Review:

The Last Knight is a Top-Down Action game released on the Nintendo DSi via the DSiWare service in 2015, as well as being made available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. In this game, players take the role of the titular knight fighting his way through enemies in Zelda-style dungeons.

The presentation here is decent enough but far from great, with the visuals represented by simple pixel art visuals and the sound mostly consisting of repetitive music and your character grunting feebly each time an enemy is defeated (or are those supposed to be the enemies’ grunts? Seems doubtful, since it happens with different types of enemies).

Stripping the Zelda games down to the dungeons isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, but this game strips things down even farther than that, removing any semblance of an interesting layout, brain-teasing puzzles, delightful sub-weapons, creative enemies, and fun combat. And once you remove all of that… well, there’s not enough left, is there?

Players will mostly find themselves evading enemy attacks and then striking out with either a charged attack or a three hit combo. Unfortunately, everything here is painfully slow. Your character attacks slowly, they charge up a charged attack slowly, they move slowly, and they move even more slowly while charging.

Players can level up their character, but the only skills they can level up are their health, the power of their charged attack, and the speed of the subsequent strikes after your first initial slow attack. As a result, it’s generally most effective to just keep moving around while charged, since everything is going to be slow anyway, and charged attacks at least clear away enemy projectiles and tend to kill smaller enemies in one hit. However, this results in The Last Knight being a fairly joyless, repetitive game of slowly evading enemies while charging up your attack, waltzing in for a powered strike, and then dancing back out to charge again.

I just don’t see a point in playing The Last Night when you have multiple Zelda games you could be playing instead, games that have so much more to offer than this game does. And yes, the $2 price tag makes it easier to pick this game up, but it’s such a tedious, repetitive, boring experience that I feel like that $2 will only be wasted.

tl;dr – The Last Knight is a Top-Down Action game that is reminiscent of fighting your way through the dungeons in Zelda games, only without all of the things that makes that fun. Everything in this game is slow, repetitive, and joyless. You have plenty of better options on the Nintendo 3DS.

Grade: D

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