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Speaking of bad NES games, King's Knight reboot; Was there a demand for this!?
Topic Started: Sep 18 2016, 02:39 PM (398 Views)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEaWDS4Q24

So for whatever reason, SqEn thought that King's Knight deserved a remake... as both a smartphone game and a game-within-game in Final Fantasy XV. I didn't think anyone really liked this game because of its bullshit 'gotcha' rules of having to be lucky.

The only other question I have is... if SqEn's going to bring back King's Knight for it's 30th anniversary, will we FINALLY get a AAA Actraiser reboot in four years? Because if any of SqEn's dormant IPs deserves a comeback, it's ActRaiser.
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Sweet jesus, if you still needed confirmation that FF15 will be horrific, watch the end of that video. Yikes.

And King's Knight? Really? Come on now.
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Nah, I'm not cancelling my FFXV preorder over this since it's DLC apparently. I'm just not going to play King's Knight, because about 95% of SqEn's mobile games are garbage cash-ins anyway, and the idea of bringing IAPs to something like King's Knight is basically just having diarrhea on a dried turd.

The end of the video just tells me that this new King's Knight is going to be shit, and that, while FFXV is probably not going to be terrible (anything is better than XIII), I'm going to have to put up with a lot of this kind of shitty banter while I'm playing.
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05:28 PM
while FFXV is probably not going to be terrible (anything is better than XIII), I'm going to have to put up with a lot of this kind of shitty banter while I'm playing.

I just don't know. Being as it was originally FF13 Versus and it's set in the same awful universe as 13, it just has too much going against it to be hopeful because while I agree anything is better than 13, I have the mindset it is basically 13 all over again.
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It's not in the same universe as XIII. That whole "Fabula Nova Crystallis" thing is really just a pretentious name for a new mythos (new take on crystals, Fal Cie, named deities), not it's own universe. I don't know if they're still trying to pump that aspect of it anymore, seeing as to how FFXIII was so polarizing among the fans. I think that's one of the reasons they changed gears and made XV a numbered entry, because the XIII name is tarnished now, plus "Versus XIII" makes no fucking sense to native English speakers for a single-player game. I've played both demos of XV, and if you approach it as a AAA spin-off game, it's pretty fun (better than fucking Kingdom Hearts.) I just REALLY do not want to hear these four motherfuckers talk about King's Knight, because holy shit, the Anime Entourage angle the story seems to be taking is already off-putting.

Type-0 is in the FNC series, and makes no references to anything that went on in FFXIII (watched most the story of all the XIII games on YouTube; Lightning Returns has the biggest bullshit ending of any FF game.) It's also not a bad game, but suffers from a serious lack of clear instructions and has a tendency to put too much on your plate. It's worth picking up now at $20, but fair warning, it's not an easy game to learn.
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It's not in the same universe as XIII. That whole "Fabula Nova Crystallis" thing is really just a pretentious name for a new mythos (new take on crystals, Fal Cie, named deities), not it's own universe. I don't know if they're still trying to pump that aspect of it anymore, seeing as to how FFXIII was so polarizing among the fans. I think that's one of the reasons they changed gears and made XV a numbered entry, because the XIII name is tarnished now, plus "Versus XIII" makes no fucking sense to native English speakers for a single-player game. I've played both demos of XV, and if you approach it as a AAA spin-off game, it's pretty fun (better than fucking Kingdom Hearts.) I just REALLY do not want to hear these four motherfuckers talk about King's Knight, because holy shit, the Anime Entourage angle the story seems to be taking is already off-putting.

Type-0 is in the FNC series, and makes no references to anything that went on in FFXIII (watched most the story of all the XIII games on YouTube; Lightning Returns has the biggest bullshit ending of any FF game.) It's also not a bad game, but suffers from a serious lack of clear instructions and has a tendency to put too much on your plate. It's worth picking up now at $20, but fair warning, it's not an easy game to learn.

Ah, well that's good then. However, I wish they picked a different universe than leather and feather jackets plus too much hairgel universe though. Who exactly is all of this supposed to be appealing too?
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Holy shit you guys just rapidly exchanged some nerd chatter I have no comprehension of
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Bratwurst for best NESforums.xyz poster of 2016.
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Bratwurst,Sep 18 2016
06:28 PM
Holy shit you guys just rapidly exchanged some nerd chatter I have no comprehension of

Honestly, I wrote that wall of text, and I have no comprehension of most of it myself.

So yeah, did any of you secretly sell your soul for a goddamned King's Knight reboot? I'm trying to find the motherfucker who did to let him/her know that they got totally gypped.
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so I played FF13 for like 20 hours and was waiting for it to quit being hallway simulator 2010: the game but it never ceased to be annoying and boring.

The characters. Ugh. The dialogue... ugh. The battle system was OK, and it was pretty... but holy shit was it a boring fucking game.

The FAL CIE and L'CIE shit really annoyed the piss outta me too.

I guess what I'm saying is I haven't paid any attention to FF15 yet, and hearing that it was supposed to be a 13 spin-off or whatever just makes me not want it more. :D

CAN'T WAIT FOR PERSONA 5 WOOOOOO

Also Kings Knight blows.
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Also if I ever have a child I am naming him RAY JACK
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FlowingMindspin,Sep 19 2016
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Also if I ever have a child I am naming him RAY JACK

If it is a boy, I'm naming first born Zenith. After my grandma's color tv.

Man I loved that TV.

If it is a girl, I'm naming it Velveeta.
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Bratwurst,Sep 18 2016
06:28 PM
Holy shit you guys just rapidly exchanged some nerd chatter I have no comprehension of

holy shit i just now noticed the babys face in your bratwurst!

i never played king's knight but it looks decent but i know where you guys are coming from with the hate. it looks like its a step in the right direction for recreating a game thats like that.
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Ratix,Sep 20 2016
07:47 PM
i never played king's knight but it looks decent...

DON'T BE DECEIVED!

Seriously, if there were more slots in WORSt, it would fit in well with that kind of company. It's disguised as an RPG/shooter hybrid, but there's not a whole lot of RPG elements other than the fantasy setting and "leveling up" (not by monsters buy by power-ups shaped as arrows pointing up; the ones pointing down will do the exact opposite.) If you hope to beat this game, you not only need some insane amount of skill, but a metric shitton of luck along the way. We're not talking a brutal challenge like Gun.Smoke. No, unlike Gun.Smoke, the level design alone can destroy you if you make the slightest hair-movement-sized mistake or pick up the wrong "power-down" item. You CAN technically get to the last level with at least one out of four party members alive, but if you don't have everyone, it's impossible to beat. And even then? The four are merged into a group that does nothing but widen your hit box, and you can only control one at a time unless you hit the "icon that changes who you're controlling" power-up, which in some cases are randomized and tends to not give you who you need.

What you get is a luck-based shooter that uses artificial challenge to keep the difficulty ramped up to retarded levels. Walls don't kill you when you touch them, but I'd rather deal with them in Gradius (PICK ONE) where I know hitting the edge will blow me up.

ProJared covered it in one of his videos, but it really doesn't dig in deep enough as to how much donkey dick this game sucks. Easily the worst game Square released in the NES days, at least in America. Maybe in Japan too, I might not be giving enough credit to that racist Tom Sawyer game on Famicom, I don't know.

Unless you're the worst kind of pixel-sadomasochist, if you see King's Knight on NES, run for the goddamned hills.

Now, take everything I said about this game, give it a Unity (or whatever engine they want to use) makeover, throw that on an iPhone with IAPs? Yep, it's another shitty SqEn mobile game money vampire, except that SqEn forgot nobody was ever nostalgic for King's Knight so they're passing the buck on over to FFXV where in that universe, everyone is either stupid and plays this updated version, or there aren't better games for their mobile phones to play.

PEPPERIDGE FARMS REMEMBERS, SQEN!
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I didn't think it was that terrible. Ok, yeah, the final stage is unplayable but the preceding stages were acceptable. There are definitely worse games, but I do agree it's Square's worst NES title.
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