Liam Croft: "It’s fair to say that Knack divided opinion upon its release alongside the PlayStation 4 in November 2013. Some concluded it to be an abomination that failed to live up to the promise of being a Crash Bandicoot successor, while others deemed it to be not so bad. Either way you look at it, it's now clear to see that the divisive title was met with enough success to spawn a sequel. And now the question becomes this: does the follow-up make good on the lofty expectations set four years ago – or does it flounder in murky water all over again? The answer lies firmly in the former: Knack 2 could well be the most improved sequel of the entire generation."
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
Agreed. Astro Bot Rescue Mission is honestly one on the best platformers I've ever played. It took things to the next level and was a delight from start to finish!
That said, while I was happily laughing along with the "Knack 2 baby!" memes with everyone else, I have to say I was a bit shocked when they gave it out free on PS Plus and I actually played it...it was actually really enjoyable lol
And huge too. Really long, loads of replayability and upgrade trees, new powers, costumes, challenge modes...hate to admit it, but I'd be pretty pleased with a Knack 3 announcement now!
Also Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Balan Wonderworld, Crash Bandicoot 4 (probably), and Spyro 4 is rumored to be in development
PS5 is looking great for platformers
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.
Couldn't agree more, i remember the first time playing Ape Escape with the Dual Shock, great times, we need a PS5 version.
It's really not.
The first really didn't deserve a sequel, and the sequel, itself, was nothing special.
"Recently I got into a trophy hunting kick, after picking up Knack II for a low price on PSN. This caused me to go ahead and try to finish up my trophy list for the original Knack."
If Knack had an animal hero-mascot would literally have far better sales and appeal ....it is very good mechanichally and visually almost on par with mario
I wish PlayStation kept one mascot and gave it love everytime.. Crash.
I liked knack 1, bought it day one with killzone I had a blast playing it I loved the graphical style, and the phone app compatibility to get extra orbs and power ups. A cool game to kick start a successful gen
@bouzeball...that would ve been the best ...imagine if sony was smart enough and bought the Crash franchise back in vivendi years (where probably had the lowest value)....now we would playing a Crash made from Astrobot devs (which is a stellar game) and Horizon s zero graphics engine ...would have been a masterpiece
There were two major problems with knack that kept it from taking off.
1) The tone did not match the style. Seriously if you showed me some promo image and asked me to guess i'd say he's some semi mute protagonist like crash, with a quirky scientist creator and his edgy funny son that treats knack more like a bro than an experiment. Off to fight some evil goofy goblins in some harrowing levels. Instead knack has the personality of a mindless soldier and everyone just orders him around and he's just all "affirmative" and the conflict with the goblins seems ripped straight from a boring military drama.
2) The levels lacked hazards, nearly every fall was just a small drop loop around and try again. Didn't really incentivize playing well, and made it boring.
The sequel fixed issue 2 in a really cool way, but issue 1 was still there and the damage from the first game was already done.
Replies(1)Excellent breakdown! All in all th rough knack got two games the op did alright
I didnt think it was anything special, but was fun in it's own right.
As far as best launch IPs, jumping flash would be mu favorite.
I'd say driveclub, but the delays kept it away from being a launch ip like it was intended. I'd maybe say Resogun, but not sure that's classified as a new sony ip because it was 2nd party.
...still Activision s Crash remakes-sequel is nowwhere near the quality standards of Knack....Knack if had corrected some minor things here and there would have been killer app...and somehow carries better the soul of og Crash than the mediocre remakes
Personally, I enjoyed Resogun much more than Knack
And PS3 launched with Resistance. Much better than Knack.
Players can get Knack 2 for free and here's a step by step guide on how. You don't need an active PlayStation Plus membership either.
Can i play the game on my american account after i download it, or will it be locked to my german account
And that is exactly what I did about 3 days ago. Good thing I used to learn German in elementary school.😁
Sony should just stop fu**ing around and offer the game to everyone, not just Germany.
Yeah I’m not going through all of that lol. If I did it would be a Japanese account so I could get all of their themes and stuff.
It's super easy to create an alt account. I have multiple. LOL! PS Asia always has betas available, so it's worth creating one for that too.
I’m not saying it’s difficult I said I can’t be bothered to take 5 minutes to do it. I’d rather pay 5 dollars for knack 2. If I did do it (which I probably won’t) it would be the Asian one. There aren’t any betas I’m aware of besides the guilty gear one but I think that’s here anyways. I’d rather take 5 minutes responding to you then navigate a German psn account lol. I don’t care enough. Lazy American.
I like when you go to that playstation blog and watch videos for codes and such. That’s what I thought this was. I was just saying no thanks. No offense.
Yes, and it's good. It improved on everything from the first one, and if you're a fan of action adventure games with some platforming, this is a must play.
I liked both knack games. I don't see why people say the second is much better, it mostly plays the same as the first.. pound enemies, platform, gather artifacts to grow bigger, pound enemies harder
I created a German Account yesterday and I got it for free. It too me like 5 minutes to make
Knack 2 currently has a score of 71 on Metacritic