Hardcore Gamer: Starting April 16, the game will be half-off on XBLA, and only cost 400 MS points, or $5, instead of 800.
Black Knight Sword is a sub-par, boring, and repulsive game that fails to be the throwback it was made out to be. Insane graphics, flying on giant chickens and being molested by melon-headed perverts aren’t substantial enough ideas to save what is otherwise a bare-boned action platforming experience.
munkimatt says:"It’s necessary to approach any game by Suda51 with an open mind. The Grasshopper Studio auteur has created some of the most downright bizarre games of the last few years with killer7, No More Heroes and, more recently, Lollipop Chainsaw being the most recognisable of his works. Black Knight Sword marks his studio’s second collaboration with Hungarian developers Digital Reality after 2012’s well received shoot ‘em up Sine Mora."
DHGF: On a surface level, the bizarre offspring of the likes of Super Mario Bros. and traditional Castlevania games is a fairly competent way of describing Black Knight Sword. You can actually compare the game strongly to any one of the countless side scrolling platformers that have appeared over the years to accurate effect, so long as you work the “really high on something” adaptive adjective somewhere amidst your comparison. When it comes down to the mechanics, Black Knight Sword is a faithful reflection of the beloved genre so many of us grew into adult gamers on. It’s also really whacked out.
