Willy-Nilly Knight: Video Game Review

Big, serious games in Russia, as you know, have not been done for a long time. But in Steam, our compatriots from the number of indie developers appear often and periodically delight fairly interesting works – for example, unpretentious, but really exciting and ironic RPG WILLY-NILLY KNIGHT, which also suspiciously successfully came out almost simultaneously with the film “Sword of King Arthur” from Warner Bros.What a fabulous adventure without a dragon?

Knight unwittingly

What is the movie? The fact is that the plot WILLY-NILLY KNIGHT, Designed Studio Double Dice Games, also offers a nontrivial, modern look at the famous British legend. It is twisted around a young man who was completely distant from becoming King Artur, but then he was in an amazing story, pulled the legendary Sword Escalibur, met a girl named Guinev, became part of the great legend and began to change under the influence of magical weapons.

And just like in movies Guy Richie (Guy Ritchie), here a lot of irony. True, humor is an uncomplicated, domestic, and sometimes even comparable to what we used to see goblin and the notorious “Russian quests” in translations. In the course of his adventures, our “knight is unwanted” will meet Pendalph of Gray, Minsk, who lost his little friend, Joker, who will ask to kill Tolstoy Fatman, will visit the location called “Resident Evil”, will help repair the moonshine apparatus and accept an order for killing the first spectrumman from his former mistress.

The dream of a programmer came true

However, it was not surprising – the game was done by two programmers, and in the plot the main character is also a young programmer who has somehow moved to this fabulous country, repeating the fate of the protagonist in the old and very popular at the time of RPG Nox. Hence the specific humor.

However, it does not pass the boundaries of reasonable, is not very impressed and generally serves as an additive to the main story. And in addition, in addition, Ironically there was a place and betrayal, and a cunning dragon, and a love triangle – our hero is forced at some point to choose between Gwinrah and a four hundred years, but very well-preserved elves.

This Trinity also compiled a colorful dwarf, hired in the tavern, and together they travel through the swamps, dungeons of looting, dead cities and dragon mountains, fight with numerous enemies – orcs, goblines, demonic wolves and aggressive nymphs, – periodically kill fat “bosses”, saved the lost children, defend the villages and generally live full adventures and exploits.You can go on a global card at any time.

Simple moves

Traveling our heroes in real time, but fight in step-by-step mode. Unlike Japanese RPG, for one of which someone can take WILLY-NILLY KNIGHT, Fights are not transferred to a separate arena, but unfold in the same place in the same hour. For someone, this fact has become a sufficient basis to compare WILLY-NILLY KNIGHT from Divinity: Original Sin, But this, of course, the compliment is excessive – Double Dice Games Everything is much easier. There are neither combinations of natural effects when you can first throw a barrel with butter in the enemy, and then set fire to the fiery ball, nor command combo, nor shelters: just every hero in its own way attacks, uses skills or magic scrolls and drinks potions.

There is also an open world, and the role-playing system is extremely simple: the heroes belong to one of the four classes (Knight, warrior, magician, Ranger), are learning new abilities unique for each specialization, and buy equipment that only a representative of a certain class can wear in storesWhen achieving a sufficient level. Plus, such a simple “craft” scrolls and potions – make yourself any extravagant helmet from the pan and stools, as in the same Divinity: Original Sin, It will not work here.ON ALL COMMUNITIES IN THE BATTLE Action glasses are spent.***
On the other hand, it is clear that the game made by two Russian developers does not pretend to some special laurels. There are no many fashionable “chips”, and the plot, jokes, combat and role-playing systems seem rustled. But but B WILLY-NILLY KNIGHT The spirit of real adventure and warm, cozy, as they say in such cases, a lamp atmosphere, which is largely created by a colorful picture and a common ironic-good-natured mood. Here you get sincere pleasure from how the programmer progresses your yesterday, becomes stronger, it comes to those who seemed too strong “bosses”, performs feats, flirting with the girls and, finally, buys themselves to one expensive knightly sword.

Impressions lubricate only glitches and bugs, most often occurring during the battles. But this is the correlative: the authors have released a fully working version with a full-fledged plot, but promise to maintain and develop the game in the future, correct errors, add interaction with the environment during the fight and local cooperative. You look, then comparisons with Divinity: Original Sin And they will not seem completely attracted by the ears.