Machine Knight

Genre: Turn-Based JRPG

Players: 1

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Review:

Machine Knight is a Turn-Based JRPG released on mobile devices in 2013 and ported to Nintendo 3DS in 2018. This game focuses on a story about a man traveling through time from an age of science and machines to a medieval fantasy land, only to discover his mission of peace was a smokescreen for a hostile invasion… or something.

Yeah, I’m kinda’ extrapolating here, because this game’s localization is absolutely atrocious. It is difficult to understand much of what is happening here due to all the broken English in this game and odd phrasing. This is all the more unfortunate because this game will not. stop. talking. It goes on at length, with characters babbling back and forth at each other seemingly incessantly, and even the shortest conversation gets dragged out far, far more than it needs to.

When you finally do get a comparatively brief bit of gameplay… this is a pretty bog-standard JRPG. You take turns, you select whether to attack or use a magic technique… if you’ve ever played an RPG, you get the idea.

Beyond that, you have pixel art visuals that look roughly on par with the 16-bit era, a forgettable chiptune soundtrack, and… that’s pretty much all there is to this game. I suppose if I were to say something nice, the game has some decent anime-style character art.

However, on the whole, Machine Knight is a miserable take on the JRPG genre that overloads you with inane, poorly-localized story interspersed with only brief moments of dull, cookie-cutter JRPG gameplay. No matter which platform you play games on, you have better options than this.

tl;dr – Machine Knight is a JRPG that would be a boring, bog-standard JRPG if it wasn’t constantly insisting on taking forever overloading you with its terrible, bloated, poorly-localized story. Do not inflict this snoozefest of an RPG on yourself.

Grade: D

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