Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell

Great, entertaining, addicting, funny, and charming game! Absolutely love this game! The soundtrack is awesome, it's got a lot of charm and the themeing is great. Lots of funny death screens too lol. you can tell they put a lot of effort into the game. It looks graphically amazing, and is super unique!! Can't recommend enough, and I'm not even halfway through.

"It's gut clenching game, with a GIT GUD Trope but it's fun AF"

This is a very interesting game. As it says on the store page, don't be intimidated by its difficulty. It's a very hard game, but every pattern is a new checkpoint, so you are usually only 15-30 seconds or so away from the next pattern. The best way I can describe this game is basically kind of like Super Hexagon but amped way the hell up. The game telegraphs bullet patterns, and you need to avoid them. In most patterns there is a circular wall in the middle of the arena that you run around, and it blocks bullets. So a dominant strategy is to anticipate where the bullets are coming from, and run to the other side of the circular wall to block them. Later in the game this doesn't work so well because it takes away the middle wall a lot. But you learn to adapt. The game to me is a piece of art. It has a story, but I don't understand it and don't care, but the gameplay is very much a flow-state. When you're in the zone you feel like a god. The music is also incredible, it's some fusion of power metal and classical with Touhou influences. Also reminds me a lot of the Ys series of games. I like the graphics style, but it's not a particularly good looking game to the average person. I will say though the bullet patterns are where the game shines in its presentation, and the performance for how much crap is going on in the screen is pretty scarily good. Overall it's a really interesting game that is seemingly unfortunately abandoned. Lots of promised features never came, but the game has enough gameplay for the price if you get it on a good sale. About 4 hours or so if you are not grinding S ranks. I bought the game in I think 2020, and only just played it again recently from digging through my backlog, and just finished it today. High recommend if you like bullet hell, it's more of a puzzle game and twitch reaction game than true bullet hell though. Play without Slow Motion for the best experience, it's just a crutch and it's more fun without it.

界面没中文，纯纯坑人

[h1] とにかく曲がハイクオリティで熱い！！ [/h1] ゲーム内容はめちゃくちゃやられまくる初見殺しの弾幕死にゲーですが、チェックポイントが小刻みに設定されているので、現時点でストーリークリアは難しくないです。 難点としては、アングルが変わったりするので弾幕が見づらい時もあり。 でも何より、熱くノリノリでプレイ出来るので100回や200回やられても苦にはなりませんでした。 まずは曲だ！っていう自分みたいな方にオススメです。 ハードコアなのにメロディーラインがキャッチーで心地よき。 PVで流れるような曲がてんこ盛りです。 P.S. もちろんサントラもソッコー買いました👍

[h1][b] TLDR: An insane bullet hell with a unique puzzle-like spin. [/b] [/h1] [b]Genre/Similar Games: Bullet hell shooters (but the puzzle elements feel more like raiding in MMO’s like FFXIV)[/b] [h1]PROS: [/h1] ✅Crazy bullet hell ✅Some kickass music [h1]CONS: [/h1] ➖More puzzle than shooter ➖Nonsensical story? I have no idea what is going on [h1] [b] Content (Game world/Narrative/Lore) – [3/10] [/b] [/h1] There’s about 6 levels of bullet-hell here, spanning 2 or 3 difficulties. This is a relatively short game and I was able to complete stages 4 of 6 within 2 hours on the easier difficulty. There seems to be a semblance of a story, but it’s too confusing and barebones to make any sense. [h1][b] Gameplay (Controls/Mechanics/Loop/Difficulty) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] So I should explain a little about this game, because I almost dropped it within the first 10 minutes, but after I figured some of the mechanics out, I was hooked. This is NOT a traditional bullet-hell shooter. You don’t even shoot manually – it’s all passive. You’re only goal is to survive the screen full of bullets. How do you do that? Simple controls: your character automatically moves in a circle. Left click changes the direction back and forth. Holding left click move slowly and you can use left shift to slow down time (which only seems to affect your character, not bullets). So yeah, that’s it. You’ll be single clicking 95% of the time. This game is DIFFICULT. There are warning splash screens when you start that introduces the game as a “Rage puzzler”. Be prepared to die a lot. I got a bit frustrated with the normal mode, and made some more progress on the easier difficulty. [h1] [b] Graphics (Quality/Art style/Animations/UI/Performance) – [3/10] [/b] [/h1] A bit interesting. It’s almost cartoony a la Grim Fandango-ish. Doesn’t look amazing. No performance issues and ran consistently over 200FPS. [h1] [b] Audio (Sound Effects/Music/Voice Acting/Ambient) – [9/10] [/b] [/h1] I knew I was going to love the audio when I hit stage 3 and there were guitars playing alongside violins. The music is great and really sets the tone with the massive amount of projectiles. Great job here. [h1] [b] Replay Factor (Side quests/NG+/Player Choice) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] While there are no side quests, choices, or NG+, the one thing that really enticed me to keep playing over and over was leaderboards. It was addicting to push forward for a lower rank. I’m happy to say in the easier difficulty I might have gotten ever stage under 100 and a few under 50 (I still suck tho). [h1] [b] Final Verdict – [6/10] [/b] [/h1] An interesting concept. I am not too much into puzzle games, but I can definitely see the allure here for people that are. [h1] [b] Recommend? [Y/N] [/b] [/h1] [h1]Yes [/h1] If you like puzzle games and dodging tons of things, you should try this. You can find my curator page here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Synik_GR

What makes this game special in my opinion is that it's the only shmup that can be played with one hand. My left thumb begins to hurt very quickly when I use a d-pad nowadays because I abused it with all my years of gaming. Good Knight is the only shmup I could play for hours on my Steam Deck without hurting. Just because of this, Good Knight will always be installed on my Deck. ;) And that makes it a true classic

Pretty fun. Playing on Standard/Hell difficulty and I do wish I could go onto the next level without being forced to play it again but harder and do those after I'm done with the other levels. Edit: Maybe I wasn't as good of a Knight as I thought I was.