I think I need to start playing games I don’t like to balance my reviews out a little bit. I’m just enjoying everything I play at the moment.

I can say this mostly nostalgia free as well. Although I had friends with the game as a child, I never actually played it myself and was never that interested. So I am writing this from a pretty blank slate and judging it as it is now without comparing it to how it was when it originally came out.

The story takes place in Gallomere. Sir Daniel Fortescue is the king’s favourite knight and is tasked with leading the charge to defeat Lord Zarok who has returned from exile. However Poor ol’ Dan isn’t all he’s cracked up to be and is the first to die, by being shot in the eye with an arrow. He is then resurrected 100’s of years later when lord Zarok returns, as a way to redeem himself from this crushing defeat. (There’s a little more to the story than that, but that’s the gist of it.)

Now I bloody love an underdog, so Sir Dan is the perfect hero for me. He has to not only prove himself worthy by defeating Lord Zarok, he also has to redeem himself to all the many other fallen heroes that feel he isn’t the right guy for this task. By killing enough enemies in each level, you can collect the hero’s cup, which opens up the Hall of Hero’s and the chance to get some better weaponry. Look, here he is looking dead proud of his little trophies.

The level design is pretty linear and attacking enemies is pretty much a hack and slash affair with the choice of attacking either close up with your melee weapon of choice, or from afar with either throwing daggers, spears, bow and arrows or whichever other weapons you have managed to unlock in the Hall of Heroes. It’s kept interesting though with the level design and different puzzles in each level. It’s not all about the hack and slash, there are riddles to solve, bird eggs to knock out of their nest, boulders to avoid, platforms to navigate and many more.

Each level you visit is super detailed and although I’m not sure what these little apple guys are for, i really like seeing them hidden around the place.

I was a little worried after playing the demo as it definitely had a few frame rate issues which caused Daniel to jerk around all over the place a bit . But you know, he is a skeleton and it’s what they do I guess. I needn’t have worried though because they seem to have sorted those issues out for the full game’s release. All in all, The game runs really well and Dan himself controls well, but the camera is something else! As someone who didn’t really play the original, I can’t compare what they were like then, to what they’re like now but it seems like they haven’t been updated at all. There was a point in the crystal caves where I was wandering around aimlessly for ages because the camera kept swinging about so I didn’t know what direction I was facing anymore. I already have a terrible sense of direction, I did not need this in my life!

All in all though, I thoroughly enjoyed this game. It has just the right amount of difficulty without being ridiculous (apart from the stupid camera) and they’ve done a great job in making this look and play great! (Apart from the stupid camera.)

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