Reviews for The Rise of a Knight

[triston80]

Not a bad game at all dude. Though, you should try adding a leveling system for both armor, weapons and character. Spend Stats, upgrade weapon and armor stats by enchanting them by levels(Up to level 100 enchant(The level enchant allowed is equal to characters current level)), along with Missions to go on that are repeatable to Grind on, and PVPing. There should be no REAL Limit to max Level, except for Equipment. This would make the game fairly interesting. And would add a competative touch to it to duel other people's characters. It bases how their characters fight in the arena according to how they normally fight in the game and Missions. Typing in a persons ranking in the arena is who they fight, and you could see your ranking by going to your "Statistics" when in town.

SeethingSwarm responds:

Glad you liked the game! This is one of my oldest games and I did improve on it a lot with the sequel "The Rise of a KING". There's a lot of weapons, armor, spells and upgrades in the game as well as a free-roaming world that you can freely explore as well as a lot of quests! Go check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for the review and suggestions :)

[LordHorishimato]

That god damn spider got me a dozen times >.< . Still enjoyed the game. The fact that I kept coming back should say something about either the game or my character.

SeethingSwarm responds:

Oh, nice to see that some people still play this game! Even I struggle my ass off with the big spider! She does have a system though, and once you figure it out it can be done off course. When she comes at you from below, either block or use your power move. When she comes from above, dodge her acid slime and then run behind her while jumping and constantly keeping the attack button in. It is much easier said than done though, especially when you have to take care of the small spiders as well. Anyway, thanks for the review and I'm glad you liked the game! It's one of the first games I've ever made and it has many flaws, but it's nice that some people still enjoy this old game of mine. Thanks for the nice score!

[ChemIisan]

I'm not sure if it's entirely fair to critique such an old game, but we often learn best from looking back at our successes (as well as our failures). This game was composed well, but I can't help shake the feeling some of those songs have been used before. As for gameplay, well...

You had some brilliant use of the Heavy/Light/Special/Block combo that many fighting games use. In the typical fighting game, I often don't block or don't have to block to win; not so with this game. The way wolves travel in packs and you teamed up dangerous characters are just various ways you showed you knew how to set up mechanics and make them useful.

So the problem didn't lie in how the levels were set up; you did a beautiful job of that with the resources you had. The problem instead lay in how those mechanics were programmed. The hitboxes were way too big for both parties: the player's own hitbox should be entirely inside of all body parts (such as in the center of the torso), and collisions with attacks should be more precise. As for enemies, I was often able to hit them from a large distance with a sword (and vice-versa-- spearbearers often hit me from impossible distances). By shrinking collision boxes, you make fighting more realistic and close-combat than what we experienced here.

Additionally, the transition from one sprite to another does not always keep the origin (the 'center' actions are performed from) the same. I often found goblins glitching through my shield as the transition from one sprite to another moved them forward, just to make one example.

Introduction of mechanics ought to be slower and take place through gameplay, not force me to look to the summary for the control scheme.

To give some last feedback, cutscenes should be able to be navigated as if they were a slide show. The 'skip' option was a good inclusion, but I wanted to move to the next section of the cutscene-- not skip the entire sequence. Make sure that players can manually advance the cutscene with a key-press.

I think I'll go take a look at your other games when I get a chance! If you can, try and improve these details in future games (if you haven't already). I'm sorry about such a retroactive review, but maybe it's good to look back and see what you did right and wrong in your previous titles.

SeethingSwarm responds:

Well now this is a blast from the past! :D
Thanks for the in-depth review. This game is one of my first games I've ever made and yes, it has many flaws, but I did learn a lot from making it and from great feedback like yours. I'm actually still struggling with hit boxes and hit detection in my newer games, but I think I'm getting better. Oh, and yes I agree those cut-scenes could have been done a lot better by giving more control to the player.

As for the music, it has probably been in countless games and animations before. It was made by MaestroSegments (also known as MaestroRage) here on Newgrounds. The reason why I used his music is because it is amazing, at least at the time it was royalty free and not all of us possess the skill or the time to compose original music on top of programming, game design, animation etc... but I have composed my own music for quite a few of my other games. I do not see anything wrong with using somebody else's free music though. It helps to promote them!

Thanks for all the feedback, it's much appreciated!
Personally I do not think this game deserves only 1.5 stars all things considered, but I'm probably biased, and it's your review and your opinion :)

[Griggz187]

I played this for about 30 seconds and quit for no apparent reason.It's probably a good game too,i'm just a bastard i think...sorry.

SeethingSwarm responds:

ooOOkay :D

[frythechik]

cool

SeethingSwarm responds:

Cool!