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Customer Reviews of Once Upon a Knight

An RPG stripped of all RPG qualities
The graphics, gameplay, and sounds are amazing, no problem there. The camera angles are a little tight sometimes making it difficult to see what you're getting yourself into but they are not nausiating or too terribly annoying. The environments and music really set the mood. Even the storyline is very interesting. However, if you're looking for a game that you can play for a long time or really get into, this isn't it.

I was excited for the first 2-3 hours, then it just got repetitive. You walk around hacking, slashing, or bashing your enemies to bits. You find new weapons once in a while and you can learn new combos or prayers once in a while. I just found it disappointing that they decided to stop here. This could have been a great role-playing game if they had incorporated RPG elements such as stats, xp, levelling up, skills, character classes, etc. But as it stands, you can only play a knight, you use either a sword, a mace, or an axe, and your "skills" are combos, which make the game feel a little more like a medieval Mortal Kombat in a 3D environment. Not to mention that the number of combos and prayers are very limited thus making the game that much more repetitive. It just lacks some depth.

If you're not looking for an RPG but just a linear hack & slash where you don't have to do anything but kill enemies, this is a good game. If you're looking for an RPG, this isn't the game for you.

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I'm ready to launch my laptop over this one!
It's not the laptop's fault. It's that this game is so aggravating. It's a cute premise, and I held out hope for it. <
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>The campaign was ok. As others have said, it's pretty linear, and gets dull after a while. <
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>The RPG section was ok while I was playing a male character. When I changed to playing a female character, it was like being drop-kicked into the middle of Frat Row on Beer Bash night while wearing a miniskirt. My female character gets hit on, gets stupid things said to her, says really stupid things (gawd-awful 'thou' lingo not counted), and it gets old, fast. <
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>Not to mention that the game messages were not looked over by anyone who had a native-level grasp of the English language. It was charming at first, now it's just obnoxious. If you're looking for a time-killer, this could possibly be ok. Be warned though, your blood pressure may rise.

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Not bad, BUT...
The game installed and ran smoothly on my 2.7Gig machine. The only slowdowns were during the Autosaves. Graphics are decent if not spectacular and the manual is complete and well written.

Having said that, the game is boring as heck. The campaign is linear, with little choice about what to do or where to go next. As someone else mentioned, the horribly mangled Elizebethian dialect would get you thrown out of most Ren Faires. Combat options are limited to: Run forward and hack until your health bar drops into the red, then run away, or stand off and shoot arrows, chuck spears, or shoot fireballs and hope nobody gets close to you. I found it a pretty pointless hack-and-slash where I could cere less about the outcome and even less about the depressingly one-dimensional characters.