Разработчик: Convex
Описание
Our little hero lives in a peaceful village which comes under attack on a fateful night. After seeing your village destroyed, you set out on an adventure to stop the mysterious attacker from wreaking havoc upon the rest of the province. You must travel through dense forests, navigate caverns and dungeons and cross snowy peaks. However, this will prove most difficult, as the mysterious attacker is not the only danger you will encounter on your journey.
Includes
- 16 hand crafted maps
- Beautifully detailed environments
- High quality musical scores
- Hardcore play mode
- Multiple enemies to fight
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP2+
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: HD4000 or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1600 MB available space
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.8+
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: HD4000 or equivalent
- Storage: 3800 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, Steam OS+
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: HD4000 or equivalent
- Storage: 3800 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Played this 3 years ago, random game
This is a fun game but where is the controller support listed?
I think I have the updated version, so many of the complaints of other players seem to be solved. I could be wrong, I'm only on level 4. It seems to be responsive to a gamepad controller. The puzzles and gameplay are pretty fun. The only thing I have against it so far is, if you quit in the middle of a level, you lose all your play for the level, even though there are small save points in the level so you don't go back to the start. I've had to leave my computer running sometimes and take a break, and come back because of it. Cute little game though. I got it on sale, but even at full price, I think it would be worth it. It's nice to not be so realistic with everything.
The best of Unity engine.
Not.
I'm on level 10, I don't like it. You cannot skip animations, you have crappy controls and every now and then the game crashes in a random way - screen becomes black, or you don't have camera control or whatever (I'm playing on Linux). And the saves are really stupid - for example level 10 always resets to the beginning even though there are at least 3 checkpoints. Not my thing, sorry. I rarely vote "No" for a game, but this one is probably more suitable for kids. I'm just not enjoying it.
Indeed, a tiny adventure with lots of diversity; as in enemies and obstacles
The story is told in short little bursts, both with text and a small cutscene, wonderful! Some annoying enemies along the way, to keep it challenging. You unlock extra weapons as you proceed, which helps you a lot in tight situations. For example, the wizard skeletons cast an orb towards you, which you can repel with your shield. Later on, you will get an ice sword and a fire sword. Very simple, but very workable!
Boss battles are not always against the same type. As for now, I am at Act 5 and I am fighting this extremely annoying nature boss. Took me a little bit to figure out what to do, but after I got him 2 hearts down, he summoned those extremely annoying mushroom guys where you have to time it really fast to hit them, or one of those guys can take you down in a few seconds!
The tiny maps are composed just fine, not too much and certainly not too less. Every Act gives you the feels you are at a different place. And if the action wasn't enough, let's talk about the puzzles here... For a tiny game like this, the puzzles were actually really well thought, by a BIG BRAIN!!! But I like everything about it.
Strongly recommend this game for people who have a tiny wallet but still want to engage in a strong story, being a hero, break it's mind through logic puzzles and fight evil to win the day!
Wow, this is a cute little fun game!
I got it on discount price, and i could say a $0.5 is a generous price for a 3D-light-RPG game!
First, the game is working properly (at least at the beginning, for the first experience).
All mechanics and controls are simple and basic, so don't expect anything like cool skills or any button shortcut.
(Again, what do you expect for $0.5 game?)
But so far this is a fun tiny adventure, with a cute character and environment.
Get it on sale for 90% off otherwise don't bother. This game is boring, feels utterly clunky, and has had no updates or care given to it since 2016. The combat is bad, upgrades do nothing (got an upgrade to a Basic Sword but it still takes 2 hits on the armored enemies to kill them...so what was the point exactly?), gems do nothing (no store to unlock abilities), and the levels devoid of anything to make them interesting (traps, meaningful puzzles, boss fights that weren't gotchas until you figure out the mechanic that hadn't been explained or telegraphed well at all).
Avoid unless on sale for $<1; even then, save your money
If you care about your eye health avoid at all costs. During the whole 12th level game keeps flashing the loading sign. Hurts the eyes and gives a headache. Below is a link from Twistor's game guide. You can watch Twister's video from 18 months ago to see what I am talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhV76FWG8M
Almost all other levels also have minor glitches.
Briefly: Tiny Knight is a cute but simple action adventure with minor puzzle elements.
In my view, Tiny Knight is Convex' attempt to make a linear Zelda-like action adventure.
- The protagonist is a child with sword and shield.
- A bad guy
kidnaps princesssteals a magic crystal of the village and you have to beat him up to get it back.
- You start with a lousy weapon but find bigger and better swords along the way.
[*] Cute graphical style, where even monsters can be cute.
Well, while it is definitely not on-par with Zelda games, Tiny Knight has some success despite its faults.
Time for justice and revenge
The very first level introduces the protagonist and the story. You, as the tiny knight, live in a village protected by a huge magical crystal of untold powers. Tiny knight is a kid who trains to become a great hero. It appears you are also the only person capable of using a sword in the village.
Then an evil skeleton king destroys the village and steals the crystal. Who would have guessed?
Might and magic
Tiny knight immediately sets out to rescue the crystal and beat the bad guy. He can already swing a dagger and later a sword. The weapon is small and there's a tiny delay when swinging it, so it can take some time to get used to fighting. Yet it is easy to dispatch all minions of the skeleton king. I guess the skeleton king did most of the work himself when destroying the village.
If swordfighting is not your forté, you can also simply jump on enemies like a plumber of some kind to kill them. A shield can be used to block both regular melee and ranged attacks (though I found it unreliable to use because of hitboxes).
Finally, at a certain point you learn magic to shoot fire and ice. Again though, there's a delay of almost half a second of initiating and then shooting the bolt. During this time you can move, reposition and turn like normal. Alas, with the lack of targeting system it is easy to miss completely by turning away at the last moment.
Control aids of 3D games from late 90s could have done wonders for this game. Other than fighting, the controls are well implemented. I used keyboard and mouse. Maybe it's just me but I felt they were actually more natural controls than using my Xbox 360 controller. With K&B combo, mouse controls camera, swings and defense, while ASDW moves the guy. However if you don't like those controls, note that there is no way to change the keys in-game, so you would have to resort to 3rd party programs for that.
Dungeons...
Levels are comparatively well varied. The forests, towns, dungeons and graveyards may have secret areas, side tunnels and insta-killing traps like lava or sawblades. There are fortunately only a couple of places requiring 3D platforming, as all movement is freeform and the only indication of character location is the usual round shadow underneath. Good thing that you can rotate camera freely, e.g. to bring it above you while platforming.
To fully complete a level, i.e. gain gold completion, one has to find all or almost all crystal pieces. You get some of them by killing enemies but most are hidden around the level.
Almost all levels have minor puzzle elements, like "beat these guys to open a door elsewhere" or "jump on these pads in correct order, you'll never guess what it is". Those were okay but with little more work they could have been very cool, as now they stayed too simplistic to my taste.
Music is nice, with the epic tone you'd expect for this kind of game.
...and dragons!
Tiny knight faces the usual cast of enemies: skeletons, skeleton archers, skeleton mages... even some non-skeletons, like magical bats and dragons. While the visual assets (that I'd describe as "cartoon cute") are not default stuff, they can be bought on Unity store (like all the skeleton enemies and some other enemies). Despite being a bit generic they fit the theme well. Still, maybe a bit of customization would have made them more awesome.
The enemy attack patterns are slightly varied. The melee fighters usually just charge mindlessly, but there's the usual cast of ranged arrows and spells and armoured enemies who can be hurt only when they reveal their vulnerability to unleash a great attack. It's a shame that ranged enemies just stay still while shooting.
While the regular enemies were tad lame, I liked the boss fights a lot. The four boss fights are reasonably varied and challenging, though only the last boss proved so difficult that I had to try several times before finally beating it.
You see, the bosses start using new tricks after getting hit and the last boss had a new pattern to show after each hit. Consequently, the end boss was the best boss in the game!
Too bad that the ending is the lamest ever, with no cutscenes nor fanfares but basically a simple "You win the game!". Somehow I expected something more.
Conclusions
Tiny Knight has its moments. The combat system could have learned from all the 3D action adventure and platforming games seen since last 20 years but it's still pretty fun. However, it only took me 3 hours to beat all levels to gold completion for the achievements.
There's also a hardcore mode, i.e. a single-life mode to beat all the levels in order without dying. As there are many dangerous traps, it can be very difficult. I made it only few levels through before succumbing to defeat.
For its relatively short length and mediocre presentation I do not think Tiny Knight entirely worth its full price of 9 euros. However, I bought it at 50% sale, for which I was happy with, so I'd give this title a tiny recommendation with a note: wait for a sale.
This game is primarily "challenge jumps" in 3D from one floating platform to another. Sometimes there are 8 or 12 in a row, miss one, you die or run the long way around and start over.
Made it to level 10 before I rage quit.
Pros:
* graphics are fun and cartoony, nice to look at
* music is appropriate and lends nice atmosphere
* works well with Steam Controller
* fair/balanced amount of save points in most parts of the game
Cons:
* non-stop challenge jumps and falling to your death is frustration gallore!
* camera is horrible, constantly going behind walls so you can't see the playing field
* VERY few puzzles
* expected farther "view distance" from a game made with Unity, the draw-in is very very distracting
* new swords just appear between levels with no explanation; you don't earn a sword at the end of a level or for defeating a boss, you just have a new sword for no reason when a new level starts
Typical game play:
* jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, fall to my death
* jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, fall to my death
* jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, get shot by a skeleton, fall to my death
* jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, fall to my death
*finally make it to the 12th platform, grab the gem, get killed by a shooting orb creature, die
* jump to a floating platform, jump to a floating platform, fall to my death
--Oh for the love of Bill! {RAGE QUIT!}
So relaxing, so polished. This totally help relieve that ulcer Hyper Light Drifter was surely giving me.
I love this game! Some of the art is what you may expect -- you will encounter skeletons and dungeons. The animations are smooth, the game is balanced, and especially so if you choose the Hardcore mode - if you want a challenge, then I suggest you go Hardcore mode.
The challenge is what I'd say is just right -- it won't pain you for hours like Dark Souls does, but it isn't a walk in the park either. You regularly encounter new enemies you need to learn how to counter, and the boss fights are engaging and challenging.
The learning curve is great. You're given the bare minimums to start with, and at no point in the game do you feel pressured to memorize certain mechanics. It all comes streamlined and smoothly.
The only real quirk I have with this game was at one point the camera clipped into the terrain -- but just once.
If you like challenging slashing games, you're gonna like this game.
A fun little "puzzle" platformer. Be warned, some of the puzzles are just praying to RNJesus and then the "jump puzzles" are sheer dumb luck in some places as no shadows and even the slightest mistouch and you slide off to your doom. Also, there is a level where you have to jump across moving platforms to an archer. He can shoot you as you are landing and have it slide you off the platform thus taking 2 out of your 3 hearts in damage (there is fall damage if high enough). If you don't mind restarting levels because of varying bugs occassionally screwing things up and can see past those then you can enjoy this game. Graphics are ok, music is nice, and the whole mario kill effect can be fun as well as the enemies friendly fire.
Update: devs quickly fixed the big issue that I marked as a no so it's now a yes.
Brings back fond memories of playing Zelda for Nintendo, fun little game.
Paid 9.99 for it and then come back online 2-3 hrs later and it's 20% off, f*cking Steam!
7/10
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Convex |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 73% положительных (15) |