In the whimsical yet perilous world of Clesseia, The Knightling invites players to don a ribboned helm and wield a legendary shield in search of the vanished Sir Lionstone. This isn’t your typical sword-swinging saga here; defence is destiny. From sliding across mossy ruins to parrying monstrous threats with a magical relic infused with Callyrium, every moment in The Knightling feels like a charming dance between courage and cleverness. It’s a tale of loyalty, light-hearted heroism, and shield-first strategy that turns every encounter into a test of timing and tenacity.

The Knightling Review Pros

• Awesome graphics. 
• 3.48GB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• Ui options – scale slider, side padding, and soft lock on indicator. 
• Accessibility option – Immortal can be turned on and off. 
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, and vibration can be set on or off. 
• In-game Ui can be tweaked to show or hide – compass and telemetry. 
• 3 game difficulties – Troubadour, Knightling, and Weathered Knight. 
• A beautiful 3D game world, and you have 360-degree camera control. 
• Minimal animation cutscenes along with in-game interactions and sequences. 
• Fully voiced cutscenes, and it’s well presented. 
• Third-person action-adventure gameplay. 
• Opening tutorial section with pop-ups as you play.  The Prologue teaches you the way in which you interact with the world, enemies, platforming, and light puzzle-solving. 
• Puzzle elements are scattered about the world. 
• You can save and load when you want from the pause menu. 
• When in a puzzle or set piece, a border will go around the screen to denote you in an investigation area. This is helpful for you to know your boundaries. 
• Button prompts as you approach items and parts of the world and people. 
• Multiple choice encounters and questioning. 
• Knightling praise is a little yellow orb you earn from doing missions and finding them in the world. It acts like an exp in that you level up and learn new skills from them. 
• They have given the collection noise for Knightling praise a really crunchy, dopamine-infused sound. 
• Health bar system, and you eat food to replenish it. 
• Your backpack gives you ample item storage.
• Interact with many people, and they will have a clear marker to show. 
• Combat lets you parry, dodge, attack, and not getting hit builds fervour, where you build up the ability to stun enemies. 
• You see enemy health bars in combat. 
• Knights Academy is where you go to spend Knightling praise and practice new attacks and abilities. 
• You can ride your shield around, and this is also your weapon for attacks and defending. 
• Blacksmiths are where you can upgrade and enhance your shield with new abilities. 
• The shield is the central gimmick of the game; riding it, flying with it, fighting, blocking, and throwing are all in there. 
• It’s definitely a game that doesn’t rush you or push you in a direction; you can just explore and collect knightly praise. 
• The compass will show mission markers, points of interest and optional side quests. 
• When throwing your shield, you can fully aim it, and you have a cursor. 
• Anything you interact with triggers a button input mini-game. 
• The world map uncovers as you explore, find cartographer towers to unlock mission markers and points of interest in that area. 
• Unlock and use fast travel. 
• There are different kinds of shops where you can buy map entries to show loot or towers, shops for customisation options and more. 
• You will usually have to get resources from enemies and boxes for shield crafting and upgrading. 
• Callyrium glimmer can be found and earned, which will increase your energy storage every time you find 8 glimmer. 
• Stumble across optional set pieces and puzzles. 
• I really like the openness of it all. I can just do as I please, and it’s not since Immortals Fenyx Rising that I got that experience. 
• The controls are very simple to grasp. 
• D-pad shortcuts for items like healing. 
• You can pull plants to get healing items from them. 
• Very clever level design in that scaling a huge mountain or building is not simple; it requires planning your jumps and hitting the right bounce pad or platform. 
• Full mission and quest management system where it’s split up into main and side, and you can choose which to track. 
• Travelling around is fine, as you can run and slide initially, and then you can fly. All in all, it’s not a huge pain to do long journeys. 
• A great collection of characters you meet and interact with. 

The Knightling Review Cons

• You cannot remap the controls. 
• No accessibility settings for Colourblind or dyslexic font, etc. 
• The cutscenes cannot be set to auto scroll, so they stop and start all the time. 
• In-game, much of the voice work is just grunts and muffles.
• The performance is not buttery smooth; there is definitely a bit of slowdown as you spin the camera around or have a lot going on screen. 
• Puzzles are obtuse and open-ended, with very little to go on; even the first one you encounter is a vague sentence of a clue. 
• The interaction mini-game gets very tiresome. 
• It’s a lot of reading and text conversations. 
• I did find the first hour to be slow and took an age to get going. 
• Not a fan of going to an Academy guy every time you want to use the skill tree and you don’t get any notifications that you have enough orb,s you have to menu dig for it, it’s not that it’s a pain it’s more the game I light and breezy with so many parts that not having this info immediately feels off. 
• The funny thing, and by funny I mean annoying, is that you can bounce off mushrooms, use shop roofs for jumping, slide down steps, but you cannot, and I repeat cannot, use a simple ladder. 
• All button icon prompts are the same colour, which can be a problem for some. 
• You cannot delete saves, and the game loves to create autosaves.

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The Knightling

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Developer: Twirlbound

Publisher: Sabre Interactive

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