Hop inside the hulking Paladin armour and prepare to bash, slash, and spellcast your way through a pixel-perfect apocalypse because Panzer Paladin doesn’t just throw you into battle, it lets you forge the weapons of your own legend. This retro-inspired action-platformer blends NES-era charm with modern swordplay mechanics, letting you swap between a nimble android pilot and a towering mech in a globe-trotting fight against occult invaders. From weapon crafting to spell-breaking combat, Panzer Paladin is a glorious clash of old-school grit and new-school flair.

Panzer Paladin Review Pros:

• Decent pixel art graphics.
• 158.15MB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Own in-game achievements represented as awards.
• Steam trading card drops.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics settings- display mode, window scale, filters-CRT, CRT curve or off.
• Four save slots.
• Controller vibration can be turned on and off from the pause menu.
• Mouse and keyboard support, and you can remap the controls.
• Volume sliders for – Music and sound effects.
• The story mode has two modes: classic and remixed.
• 3 game difficulties: easy, normal and hard.
• A modern take on a Chiptune soundtrack, and it is really good.
• Action-platformer gameplay.
• Paladin, your Mech suit basically. You can get out of it and play as a small human.
• Tutorial screens are available for guidance.
• Checkpoints are plentiful, and you interact with them by stabbing your weapon into them and being unable to use it. Remove the weapon to use it, but lose the checkpoint.
• Many attack types from all directions.
• Melee and throw weapons. You can hold multiple melee weapons and swap between them.
• Each weapon has durability.
• Hidden pickups in breakable wall parts.
• Shield mechanic is where, if you don’t attack, you auto-block projectiles.
• Big boss encounters, and they fill the screen and have health bars.
• NES-style in-game cutscenes.
• Beautiful animations and backdrops, each location looks better than the last one.
• World map stage select showing the country and the boss.
• All levels are open at the start, and you can do them in any order you choose.
• Laboratory – available on the level select screen, you can melt down weapons into points to upgrade your Paladin.
• It can change the difficulty between levels.
• Awesome opening level transition.
• So much fun to play.
• It has a retro feel and appearance, but plays like a modern game.
• Enemies drop their weapons, but you can find them in the level.
• Many enemy types.
• Slight puzzle elements are scattered around the world.
• Weapons-each one will have a spell on it and does something like heal on hit, blessing, etc. Weapons also have types like blunt and slicing.
• Blacksmith mode: create your own weapons in the powerful creator, draw what it looks like, add stats and properties. What happens then is when you play the horseman that drops a weapon, the mod level can drop one of your weapons or can drop a random other player’s creations as your creations upload. You can name and edit creations. This has full online support and can potentially drop other players’ creations.
• Speed run mode and your ghost replay can be uploaded, and the mode supports online leaderboards with filters.
• Weapons-you can use them, throw them, or break them for an area of effect attack.
• Combat is varied.
• Can see boss health bars.
• The game flows well and combines the difficulty of a Mega Man with the classic platformers of games from yesteryear.
• I found myself coming back over and over, even after losing to a boss; you will always want to come back.
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Panzer Paladin Review Cons:

• Have to unlock remixed story mode.
• Doesn’t explain how the weapons work like spells and checkpoints.
• Annoying platforming sections.
• Jumping in the Paladin feels strained and not that responsive.
• Hit detection woes, especially on smaller need to duck and hit enemies.
• Doesn’t promote laboratory tests, and you can easily miss it.
• Only 3 colours for weapon creation.
• Difficulty spikes.
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  Panzer Paladin

  Official Website: https://panzerpaladin.com/

  Developer: Tribute Games

  Publisher: Tribute Games

  Store Link:

• Steam