TCK - The Cursed Knight

I grew up with Genesis/NES so I might be more forgiving toward this game just out of nostalgia, although I must say this game feels like a combination of Silver Surfer(NES) & MegaMan, maybe with a touch of Contra: Hard Corps when it comes to the visuals. About 60% of this game is flying and shooting in both directions, can be pretty punishing, but the normal difficulty had infinite respawns, and yet, still kinda challenging in some sections. Small note, the game settings can be accessed by pressing ESC, you can remap the controller or keyboard (I used Xbox one). To use widescreen change the aspect ratio/fullscreen in the settings. I think it's a decent game, that said, I just feel like the overall consistency is not great, the art style and just about every other aspect of the game tends to fluctuate, everything from level design to the boss fights, it feels like the amount of effort the developer would put into areas is all over the place. For example, there are stages where the coloring feels 100% on brand with the Genesis, but then there are other levels where the color palette feels like an ugly rainbow, just the overall presentation of the game could have been a lot better, e…

The Cursed Knight is a fantastic 16-bit throwback that gets more addictive with each playthrough. This game is part shooter and part platformer and does them both well. A challenging experience at first for sure, but the given difficulty settings allow for any level of skilled gamer to have a good time here.

This was one of the best, if not THE BEST kickstarted Mega Drive/ Genesis projects of 2022. And now conveniently on steam! Running through some sort of emulator with few settings play around with. In the game you play as a knight and you are trying to bring back your lovely princess, But this is no easy matter, this game is HARD. The game is essentially shmup and euro shooter (I think its called, games like Turrican where you can only shoot left or right) mix. It has a interesting gravity changing mechanic which brings a whole new challenge to the platforming. Few weapons to choose from all with their own strengths and weaknesses, they are balanced and each are good for certain situations. Many interesting enemies, bosses and the gameplay does change up often to keep you on your toes. The game is pretty tough, but they cleverly made it so that the sections are not too long and there are checkpoints along the way to not let you get too frustrated during the stages, and you want to keep trying to get little bit further to progress. And it does feel very satisfying. The game is mostly fair if you have a keen eye, but there were couple of spots where theres no way to know where to d…

A good 7/10. Some impressive graphics for Genesis, some NES-looking graphics. Game starts simple but later levels are strong. Mix of platformer and shmup is good for variety, controls are tight for both styles. Could've used more polish with the early graphics and level design.