Thankfully, Super Chibi Knight is highly replayable. It’s great to see a game feature both approaches, but having some middle-ground between them would’ve been nice. In other words, the Beastmaster path is suited to casual players while Sorcerers are Super Chibi Knight‘s Hard Mode. But Sorcerers must use every skill in their arsenal to win, making a magical victory cathartic and memorable. Playing the final act as a Beastmaster is fun but game-breaking – you could just summon a dragon and blaze across each boss challenge in minutes.
Most importantly, the Sorcerer path is challenging and satisfying. You can also mix and match gameplay approaches – one could hurl lightning and mop up remaining enemies for one combat, then play the tank by absorbing damage with heals spells the next.
The Sorcerer’s island has bigger dungeons to clear and more platforming content to explore compared to a linear Beastmaster path. That’s not getting into the fact that riding a Beast just looks plain cool.īut here’s the twist – from a gameplay perspective, the Sorcerer path is more engaging. Meanwhile, half of the Sorcerer spells are ordinary combat boosts – Fire Sword and Shield specifically – while Lightning burns through your entire Special meter so you don’t feel especially powerful. From a design perspective, the Beastmaster path is way more dynamic than Sorcerer, adding fresh new mechanics and fantastic creature designs. Now that’s not to say each path is equal. Once you’ve trained to your satisfaction, the hero can return to her home town and defeat General Tso once and for all. Beastmasters, meanwhile, summon powerful animal mounts – like armored creatures who resist damage or a dragon that can fly across the map shooting fire. Finding specific sorcerers lets you use a special meter to cast heal spells, call lightning, or create a personal shield. Once you’ve arrived at your chosen path, you’ll seek out upgrades that go beyond straightforward hack and slash combat. So if you were hoping to be a Beastmaster but stepped on the boat thinking you could return to the island? Too bad – the game will autosave and you’ll have to start from the beginning. This choice isn’t be explicitly advertised – just implied through the game’s lore. At the end of the game’s first act, you can either access the mountain society of the Beastmasters or take a ship to the Sorcerers’ island. Where you do get a choice is between the Sorcerer and Beastmaster branches. Your armor and weapon upgrades are fixed, but you can still swap between them while keeping the benefits of the most powerful item. Each level-up is equal parts useful and adorable, and eventually the young hero will become an impressive badass before your eyes. But as you explore the game world, uncovering side quests, shops, and giant bags of XP, you’ll obtain upgrades that are enchanting and reflect advanced abilities. Your character starts the game as a cheek-pinchingly cute child with a lowly wooden sword completely outclassed by… well, everything. It feels like the classic platformers we played on Super Nintendo consoles long ago, complete with retro graphics and a high difficulty curve, but without the frustrations of limited lives and Game Over screens.īut Super Chibi Knight doesn’t rely on charm alone, it also ties in RPG mechanics. The cartoonish animation style is lovingly crafted, and the voice acting – performed solo by the developer’s daughter – gives it an incredible personality and charm that’s completely endearing. To beat him she’ll need to train her combat abilities, gain powerful equipment, and become an expert in one of two schools, the spellcasting Sorcerers or the animal-commanding Beastmasters.įirst and foremost, Super Chibi Knight is an adorable game. Your character is a girl from the Kingdom of Oukoko who – without needing any sort of tragic backstory – decides to defeat the evil General Tso who threatens the entire world. Super Chibi Knight is a retro-style RPG platformer in the spirit of classics like The Legend of Zelda II.
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