The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot

A really fun time. Great game that does not overstay its welcome. Sandbox style lets you go about the levels in any way you want and the skill tree gives you plenty of tools to truly make each run your own. Do yourself a service and give this game a try.

The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot is a extremely fun OG Dark Messiah clone with a very unique art style. I didn't encounter any major bugs while playing the game and it takes roughly 5-6 hours to beat it once while looking through the levels pretty thoroughly (not considering 100%'ing the game). Story is mostly just mocking the popular book/stories/franchises but it's pretty funny. Physics are well made and allow the player many different ways in which he can progress through the levels. The character skills are unique and allow for different playstyles, but for me they aren't that different from eachother. I wouldn't really say that you can specialize in one thing while leveling up the character and no matter what the player chooses those playstyles feel very simillar. Weapon play is fun, magic is fun but lightning for me seems kind of underwhelming compared to any other magic type in the game. Stealth is well made but I have one issue with it, enemies could take longer time on their basic pathing. What I mean by that, is I often found myself tracking the enemy (like that one Baki meme), and they immediately turn around, meaning I can't assassinate them with bonus stealth damage. The only way to consistently assassinate enemies that I found was to either manipulate the environment (for example taking a crate and putting it in a place to hide behind it) or to use the teleportation skill (the Dishonored Blink). Last mission was 10/10 fun, dev introduced new mechanics and without major spoilers it was extremely fun kicking enemies around. I recommend Sir Kicksalot for someone seeking a short game to play and have fun messing around with different physics based ideas for level solving. For me it's a 8,5/10 game, but it could have been a little bit longer or maybe a little bit harder in terms of level design (without making the game annoying and unfun with artificial difficulty like many games do).