"As much as it pains me to say it, Knack feels like nothing more than a glorified tech demo. It’s something that looks fantastic when played by someone else in a controlled environment, but the moment you get some hands-on time with it you realize it is in shambles. It’s a last-gen title with a next-gen coat of primer. Everything it does is mediocre at best and it is most certainly not a reason to justify purchasing a PlayStation 4. If you did happen to buy Knack or receive it as a gift, that’s not to say you can’t find some joy in its simplicity – but it will only serve as a reminder that proper titles are just over the horizon and that the money spent on it could have been put toward a game that’s not living in the distant past." - Dustin Triplett of Geekenstein
Sony might be gearing to launch a new Knack game, a franchise that has had received quite a polarizing reception from the community.
While I did actually enjoy the Knack games, and found the reviews overly harsh, I do feel 2 games were enough unless the series was revitalized in a major way. For me, that would be a new Knack game for PSVR2. With the increased hardware power, those HD particle effects would be pretty awesome, surrounding the player at times. Astrobot proved that platformers can be amazing in VR, so let's hope that's where they're going with this, if real!
Translation: the next best game of all time is coming soon! Show me the money, Knack!
Surprised to see them continue this but considering how invested they are in the IP and the wider appeal, there must be some commercial sense to continue with a 3rd title
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Loved locoroco and legend of dragoon. Never played gravity rush or even ape escape but I heard good things.
Beyond the memes, Knack is just a solid platformer that deserves a new home on the PlayStation 5.
I'd rather they make a new platformer IP. With Sackboy and Astro's Playroom PS5 looks very good for the platformer genre so far
I think it would be great if they rebooted it, keep the visual style, but change the tone of the story and voices to match. This game looks like it should have a semi mute protagonist with a silly professor and his rebellious apprentice. Instead knack sounds like a brainwashed soldier, the professor like an angry divorced dad, and the kid is such an average joe. And the story takes itself way too seriously, it's so clashing with it's art style
It's time for Ape Escape PS5, Dual Sense Enhanced.
Give me that first. Then whatever.
It's really not.
The first really didn't deserve a sequel, and the sequel, itself, was nothing special.
knack is whack
I think a lot of these reviewers are going in negative from the start with this game, I have really enjoyed it old school plat forming with a modern skin and would urge people to make up there own minds based on there likes. If you liked crash bandicoot you will enjoy this.
The reviewer is being way too harsh for a game that´s supposed to be for kids.
From what ive seen the gameplay seems to feel like Crash Bandicoot at times and requires the player to think before advancing it might feel like skylanders during the big open areas but this one at least seems creative in terms of level design.
Loving Knack so far. :)