Life, School, and Gaming: Game Review - Spiral Knights

As I said last time, I'm going to do a quick Spiral Knights review. If you're not a Steam user, you probably don't know about the biggest announcement they've made this summer: five free to play games have been added to the Steam library. In addition, Team Fortress 2 has been made a free to play game as well, bringing the total of free games on Steam to seven. I'll go over each of the five new ones and post reviews of my thoughts on the game. First up is Spiral Knights developed by Three Rings and published by Sega.

Platform: PC via Steam or the main website.
ESRB Rating: N/A
Genre: MMO, dungeon crawler
Who Might Enjoy: Zelda fans, MMO fans, Steam gamers

Since this is a MMO, I won't be going over things like story or characters since there really isn't any. Instead of hunting down pictures, I've put a video of some gameplay I've recorded.

Gameplay:
At it's heart, this game is a large scale dungeon crawler. You equip you character in town, join or create a party, and hack your way through randomized floors of enemies. It's not complicated, but damn is it fun. The controls are decent. there's several ways of controlling movement. Mouse and keyboard, keyboard only, or gamepad. I prefer to use my 360 Controller. It works great for me and the controls I mapped remind me of playing The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Characters do not gain experience in this game, your equipment does. When you defeat monsters, coins, items and embers are dropped. Collecting enough of these during a level will let your items gain levels. this seems to affect damage dealt, taken, how much an item can be charged up, etc. Two things I don't like: all the equipment is way too expensive and the game is energy based. I'm still stuck with starter equipment, since the next tier of equipment is out f my price range still (about five hours in). The energy system in here makes it so you have to pay to go down a level in the labyrinth, revive yourself if you die, or revive a dead teammate. It cuts play time for free members to about two hours a day if you're careful in the dungeons.

Graphics:
The graphics are fairly low spec, but still look good. I run the game on medium settings and you can see how nice it looks in the video below.


Sound:
Not too impressive. The music consists of very video game sounding music that doesn't sound like any actual instruments. I don't mind this, but there's not a whole lot of music and the sound effects block it out. The sound effects themselves are bearable, but nothing special.

Extras:
59 Steamcheivements and a TF2 hat (of course!). Only for Steam users though.

My Score:
7/10: The sound, prices, and energy system bug me, but it's still a really fun game. I don't play a whole lot of MMOs since most of them lack a sense of originality that makes it fun. This has it in my opinion. It makes me think of a Four Swords MMO based on the Wind Waker engine. Running through the levels and beating up various monsters with random people online is fun in this game.

And here's the video.

Source: http://alixjrz.blogspot.com/2011/07/game-review-spiral-knights.html

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