Knights of Braveland Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

Knights of Braveland Review is a cooperative beat’em up action game with a generated story. You will hack, slash, and smash your way to victory. And with your friends, it is much more fun. Play local or online. Once you sign a contract to catch the villain, you’ll head into an adventure. Each quest is created from hundreds of particular events, melding into a unique story. The Elves will reveal secret paths to you and the ordinary pub owner might very well turn out to be a werewolf.

Knights of Braveland Review Pros:

• Decent cartoon-like graphics.
• 2.6GB download size.
• Supports 2 to 4 local players.
• Four playable characters.
• Each stage has five total difficulties with only two available initially.
• The main hub is where you can choose your stage.
• Each stage has its world map level select screen.
• Changing the difficulty increases the rewards.
• You get a melee and ranged attack.
• Items can drop and will show green and red text to indicate if it’s good or bad.
• Opening tutorial section.
• You use up food when moving around the world map.
• Multiple choice interactions.
• All items found and used in a stage run are taken off you and converted into materials to permanently upgrade your abilities and revive the Lost Guild.
• Big boss encounters.
• All levels happen on a one-screen basis with enemies coming in from the sides.
• You can replay stages.
• Has a slight Castle Crashers feel to it.
• Breakable objects in the levels.
• A wide range of weapons all feeling unique.
• Pick one of four cards after they get jumbled up is the system the game uses for actions like buying and selling, getting into a new area etc.
• Not all levels are combat, some avoid obstacles and make it to the end.
• At times you can opt in to camping to regain health on the world map screen.
• Picking up gear changes your appearance.
• The controls and gameplay loop are very easy to get into.
• Get powders and elixirs to get buffs.
• Fast loading times.
• You can see your and the enemies’ health bars.
• If you die then you get materials from what you had and will tell you how much progress you made.
• Hack and slash combat that is ideal for button mashing.
• The library in the hub acts like a bestiary for encountered enemies, weapons, and gear found along with bad guy cards.
• Running out of provisions means you take damage every time you move on the map.

Knights of Braveland Review Cons:

• In-app purchases straight away on the character select screen.
• No real game settings.
• Scenarios start to repeat themselves early on.
• At times it can be hard to tell if you are in line to hit enemies and this also applies to dodging attacks.
• The game doesn’t make it clear about its roguelike nature.
• A lot of the time you have to be so pre-use in lining up to items in order to get them.
• The game is quite tiring as the levels get longer and longer using the same layouts and any death means you have to do it again.

Related Post: Snow Plowing Simulator First Snow Review (Steam)

Knights of Braveland:

Official website.

Developer: Tortuga team

Publisher: Tortuga team

Store Links –

Nintendo