JungleKnight

Jungle Knight is a very interesting entry in Steam, but not because of the game. At face value this is a craptastic Unity based 2D retro pixel 1-button endless runner where you jump up and down to collect slices of asset flipped pixel watermelon while dodging asset flipped bird things. Whee! Surely the pinnacle of gaming in 2022... not. What's really going on here is an apparent case of money laundering, as there's a bizarre, empty $75 USD DLC package attached to this. While I can supply no proof to this theory, circumstantially it's the best explanation for this existing at all. It's clearly just a shell of a game... and why does a shell need a ridiculously priced DLC? Regardless, game reviews must be about the games and not the developers, even if they do turn out to be part of a criminal activity. Because this is just an empty shell of a game, with no value or merit as a game for gamers, I can't recommend this.

Game of the year, every year, baby

https://youtu.be/wLw0RZemvMY 0/5, I am not even Sorry.

"JungleKnight" is an [i]extremely[/i] simplistic mobile-tier one-button endless runner which seems to be designed to be impossible to play for more than a few seconds at a time without dying. The trailer video is obviously slowed down, the game is never that slow. But luckily there are in-app purchases! You can buy "gold" for real money and spend it on upgrades to the player's health. Of course, this being a single-player trash game nobody right in their mind would possibly spend a dime on these micro transactions. It's still interesting academically as this [i]might[/i] be the first game by the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41754370-Asset-Flip-Reviews/list/90455]lost cube gang[/url]. Don't want to spend money on basically nothing? Hey, they've got you covered as well - how about spending money on [i]nothing at all[/i]? And I'm not talking about NFTs here - there's DLC for this game at a whopping 60+ bucks and it's completely empty. No content at all! And since the game doesn't even check for the DLC it's safe to say it's utterly worthless. As my learned friend Obey the First! wrote in their review it's likely that this game is made to be used for money laundering. There's obviously no way to prove this, but it's all so lazy and the cost of the DLC and IAP is so high there's no way anybody would be buying anything here unless they really needed to burn money for not-so-legal reasons.

I was in a bad place in my life. Drugs, debt, no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the like. The noose around my neck, I was ready to end it all. That was, until my computer lit up and I saw a new game was downloaded. As a gamer, I’m obligated to play any game I have downloaded to its completion, even if I’m not 100% certain how exactly it got on my computer. As you may have expected, the game that was downloaded was this one, JungleKnight. The first question I had was why in the cover art for the game features the name JungleKnight separated, but in the title itself the name is connected? Alas, I knew no answer would arrive if I did not play the game itself. I clicked play and was met with this knight man with a red scarf, who I shall call Mr. Jungleknight. I clicked what I think is play, but I couldn’t tell since its in Chinese and I unfortunately do not speak that, and the game swiftly began. Mr. JungleKnight started moving and, after a moment of fright, an enemy appeared and made a move towards my character. Even though Mr. JungleKnight has a weapon, he neglects to use it to smite his enemies. Perhaps he is a pacifist who uses it merely as a tool for intimidation rather than a means to end the life of others. To deal with the oncoming enemy my only course of action was to leap above them, avoiding its onslaught. While in the sky I collected the watermelon, which it seems to be the point system, and made a slow decent towards the ground. After I arrived at ground level, my adversary made a foolish decision to attack the air which I had departed from long ago. Confident that I was dealing with a fool, I lowered my guard. In that moment, my enemy made a move that still haunts me to this day; they attacked from both the ground AND the sky. I was shocked, in amazement, astonished, bewildered, in awe! During my surprise I, sad to say, was damaged in the altercation which costed me one of my precious lives. The opponent had learned from its mistakes and countered me fully. It seems that I was not dealing with a buffoon, but instead a master tactician. Before I could even contemplate what had happened, the second volley of monsters arrived, once again inhabiting both the land and air. However, I came prepared a jumped before the monster on land hit me, allowing me to go above it, but not giving my character enough time to reach the monster above me. I had beaten my opponent at his own game and the euphoric rush hit me hard. I contemplated my previous thoughts of the game. At first, I believed this game was a scam, a ruse, a money laundering scheme. Now, I see the game in a new light. I was asking “Who is this man?” and “What is his purpose?”, when I should have been asking “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?”. My opponent and I have been battling for about an hour and they don’t seem to let up. I think they are my one true friend in the world. I burned the noose; I don’t have the strength to end it all. If I did, I fear I would leave my friend all alone in the world of Jungleknight. We have battled a couple more times since then, now when Mr. Jungleknight jumps, I almost feel that I’m jumping. With every triumph over my adversary, the satisfaction increases. With every injury Jungleknight, and by extension myself, suffers, a reminder that my opponents mind is sharper then my own. I hope the deeper I get into this game, the more lore and secrets I uncover, such as why it called Jungleknight, despite not taking place in a Jungle. I don’t want to take up anymore of your time, that time could be better spent playing this game. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some watermelon to eat while avoiding monsters. I give this game a perfect, flawless, one of a kind, 10/10.

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