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Knight Tactics

Knight Tactics is an adventure game in which you control a band of five adventurers. The game has 9 classes, each with five skills – providing for a ton of different battlefield combinations. The classes and abilities are relatively unbalanced, but that makes it even more important to try everything. The action of the game is turned based, and takes place on a tiled board. The tiles have different heights, and despite being able to turn the terrain off, there are times when it is hard to select a tile that is behind a higher one. There is a small advantage for attacking the side or back of an opponent. In between the battles there are short cut-scenes, which help progress the games wholly-uninteresting plot.

Sadly, the game has a lot of bugs. At times, the cut-scenes will crash and you must restart. There is a bug where computer opponents will leave the map, and then can’t be attacked. Sometimes they will come back, other times they will get stuck, requiring the game be reset. There is a bug where dead units won’t turn into corpses, and attacking them will waste an attack. Other times the computer will walk on something too high to be walked on, which means waiting until they come down or resetting. Also, units can get more than max life by healing. I wasn’t sure if that was a bug or by design, but what is a bug is that their life bar will extend the whole way across the screen, right out of the dialog box. The game has a save feature, and I recommend using it often.

The game has 22 levels. They are unlocked a couple at a time, meaning you can beat the game without beating all of the levels. Winning (and loosing) levels gets you points, which are needed to unlock the different abilities and classes in the game. The game ends very abruptly, no cut-scene, no credits, just a lame little message. The game can not be lost, and there is no penalty for loosing a level. The game has a simple map editor, which doesn’t appear to work. It also has a feature to play online maps, but there appears to only be one.

The graphics in the game are very simple, and the effects are bad. The sound is okay, about what you would expect to find. If you can look past the bugs, and the sometimes drawn out game play, Knight Tactics is a decent game with a lot to it. Remember to save!