
Sparkster makes his triumphant arrival on next-gen platforms with Rocket Knight, the newest chapter in the classic side-scrolling rocket action series. Our favorite opossum hero returns home after 15 years to find the kingdom of Zephyrus in shambles.
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Languages: English
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This does not feel like a triple A game for the price point. Quite average and graphics are terrible. Controls are slow and delayed. I wouldn't recommend this even for kids.
This is a fun game that reminds me of Crash Bandicoot. Unfortunately, it doesn't have subtitles in the cutscenes, but it's still a fun game.
I did like the game, on level 3 the difficulty start to increase but still fun.. Sadly i will have to stop playing it because i feel sick after a while when i play it, idk why, i will see a walkthrough to know the full experience. If you dont feel sick by playing it, its a good game, but i have to downvote I like the franchise, sooner or later i will have the other games on steam, i got those phisical on sega genesis.
It's a decent game that overstays its welcome if you try to 100% it. The music is excellent, the graphics and overall presentation are good. The game play seems awesome at first, but if you play on the harder difficulties you will inevitably get annoyed by some of the design choices- the worst being that using the sword usually gets you damaged because the enemies that don't die in one hit don't have any knockback. It's cool that this appears to be its own standalone entry instead of a remake of the original games. The game worlds are pretty cool. You can dash attack, slide down bars and spin to attack enemies from all directions. About 1/5th of the stages are flying stages where the screen is scrolling and you are just shooting at things. Unfortunately half my play time was just fighting one single boss- the boss at the end of world 3 is insanely cheap and frustrating and annoyed me to no end. It's basically designed so that you have to rely on random probability to win on hard difficulty. For some bizarre reason the bosses on hard difficulty just take an insane number of hits to go down. If you beat the game on hard you will unlock "Gold Sparkster" mode which is just hard mode but you have half the health. I think two times through was enough for this game- going through it three times was just overkill. It's worth playing, but now that I've completed it I'm so sick of it due to the irritating third world boss that I'll never play it again.
I had fond memories of playing the original Rocket Knight at a friend's house when I was a kid, so I thought "why not?" I regretted this decision very quickly. I knew from the videos and images that the game doesn't look very good. What I could not tell is that is just controls kinda ... bad. It's been a long time, and maybe the original isn't as good as I remember, but in these days there's just no excuse for moving and attacking to feel so lackluster and weak.
É nostálgico jogar um clássico. Como não gostar?
well this was a thing that exists. not really much to say its bland, boring. kinda uninspired. controls kinda suck, music is dull, visuals are bland and kinda give off that 2010's xbox live arcade cheapo vibe. if you need about an hour or 2 to kill you could do worse. only played it because a friend got it for me, and if you happen to see this im sorry i didnt think much of this but thanks for giving it to me anyways
Jogo OK. Pode ser divertido, mas é fácil demais e genérico. Não é ruim ou mediano, mas deixa um gosto amargo na boca, pois os primeiros jogos eram bons, não porque são nostálgicos pois não cresci eles, mas por serem um dos mais bonitos da geração de 16 bits e por terem uma gameplay e musicas envolventes... Os maiores pontos negativos são as pouquíssimas variações de inimigos (tem muito inimigo que atira), as músicas são muito genéricas, além do jogo ser muito vazio em diversas partes, principalmente no começo. Não tenho nada demais a esse jogo. Entretanto, ele é só uma sombra dos três jogos antigos.
It doesn't quite hold a candle to the original Sega Genesis/Super Nintendo Rocket Knight Adventures games, but that doesn't mean it's bad. At least someone from Konami cared to bring our beloved rocketpack wearing opossum back :)
+ Last game of the franchise timeline and not included on Re-Sparked Collection) + Short and moderate difficulty + Fast pacing + Colorfull but not eyesoring - Sound cheap due to low SFX, VFX and sometimes choppy animation - One boss and one achievement are a drastically harder than the rest of them - The first run of the game shows a setup that ends in try and error to you fix it (On SteamDeck it will end with black bars on the border) If you want a generic PSN or PSP game, go for it. For fans of the franchise it's a "OK" game.
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