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The Knight Witch Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET At this point, it’s easy to think that the Metroidvania genre has become played out. The indie community has positively run away with the genre over the past decade, producing projects that need to work increasingly harder to differentiate themselves from the pack. Still, this pressure has also bred some impressive innovation. Who would’ve thought the genre could be mashed well with a cute pinball game? Or what if your only movement option was teleporting? Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team (no, that’s not a new Street Fighter game) has decided to take a crack at this lineage of more offbeat takes on the genre with The Knight Witch, a new Metroidvania that integrates the white-knuckle gameplay of a bullet-hell game like Ikaruga. Though it’s not perfect in how it executes mixing these styles, The Knight Witch still manages to offer a memorable and enjoyable experience that ultimately proves itself to be worthwhile. The narrative in The Knight Witch picks up several years before the events of the game, when society was ruled by the industrious Daigadai clan. Their focus on progress at all costs destroyed the environment and led to a civil war, with the opposition being led by the titular Knight Witches. After a lengthy campaign, the Knight Witches defeated the Daigadai. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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But the fallout from their epic battle forced society to move underground to rebuild. Years later, the story places you in the role of Rayne, the secret fifth Knight Witch who was never powerful enough to join her sisters and thus went unknown. Things are peaceful enough in Rayne’s underground village, but events quickly take a turn when it’s revealed that the Daigadai weren’t completely wiped out and they’ve come back for revenge. With the famed Knight Witches scattered and broken, it’s thus up to Rayne to defend her home and defeat the Daigadai once and for all. The Knight Witch features much more of a focus on story than is typical of a Metroidvania, but we feel it mostly delivers on what it attempts here. Though some late-stage plot twists are foreshadowed a little heavily in advance, we felt the developers did a good job of crafting a lighthearted fairytale that still isn’t afraid to have some serious moments when the situation calls for it. The only drawback here is that the relatively short runtime of the full game means that certain plot beats feel like they happen way too fast, to the point it can be a little jarring. Still, we enjoyed the narrative on offer here.

Body and Mind: The Knight Witch Duality.

If for nothing else than the fact that it aims for something that most of its genre peers don’t. Gameplay in The Knight Witch is one-part Metroidvania and one-part bullet-hell shmup, and we’re pleased to report that it merges the two quite well. Rayne is constantly flying (think Aurora from Child of Light), which removes any sort of platforming challenge, and replaces it with tests of timing and steadiness. Perhaps you’ll be asked to navigate a narrow spike-lined hallway without touching any of the sides or you’ll have to work out the timing of dashing between laser traps that activate on intervals. It feels like Rayne controls a bit too loosely for what’s being asked—sometimes weaving between dense lines of bullets feels next to impossible—but the floatiness works well enough for most fights. Levels are laid out in a traditional maze-like fashion that routes you through enemy encounters and rooms filled with traps while you seek out shortcuts and upgrades to make your journey a little easier. Map design feels a little more linear than a traditional Metroidvania, but this isn’t necessarily a drawback, as the experience overall feels quite streamlined and well-paced.Raging Justice Switch NSP

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Upgrades are doled out at a relatively quick pace and each biome feels like it ends just about at the point that its defining gimmicks are starting to wear thin. For example, the second major biome focuses on raising and lowering water levels by switching between your default control style and a submarine you can enter at certain docks along the waterline. It’s a fun concept and The Knight Witch does some interesting things with it, but it doesn’t overstay its welcome. Combat is handled via a mixture of your primary fire and a series of spellcards that consume limited mana which can only be refilled by enemy drops or breaking environmental objects. Primary fire can either be aimed with the right stick while you strafe with the left, or you can simply let off the right stick and have auto-aim take over, though doing this incurs a slight penalty to your damage output. Spellcards trigger various beneficial effects—such as a homing attack that stuns enemies or a shield to catch a few bullets—and these each have varying mana costs. The main drawback with these is that you only have three spellcards available to use at a time, which are randomly drawn from the dozen or so that you have equipped to your loadout. So, if there’s a specific card that you need in the moment.

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you have to burn through your available cards and limited mana until you get the one you want. In a slower and more strategic game, this would be a more enjoyable mechanic, but in the often fast-paced battles of The Knight Witch, you don’t have the time to monkey around with a loadout that might offer what you want. Beyond the upgrades that you acquire through exploration, you can also level up Rayne by raising her link level, which represents the public’s faith in her. This is brought up by talking to and helping NPCs, and by engaging in public interviews at key story beats—usually after you’ve just beaten the boss of a biome. These interviews are especially interesting, as each question comes with options that allow you to lie. Projecting a strong image by minimizing or ignoring the things you struggled with nets you more link power and therefore levels you up faster, but this also means you have to lie and that has story implications later. When you get a new link level, you’re then given the option to progress either your ‘Knight’ or ‘Witch’ attributes. Knight buffs will give you boons like a faster fire rate and a longer invulnerability window after taking damage.Super Jagger Bomb Switch NSP

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while the Witch buffs can expand your mana pool and increase the effectiveness of your spellcards. Further, the buff that you choose to pass up will be offered to you again the next time you level up and every time after that until you finally choose it. We appreciated this light approach to having a ‘build’ for Rayne; though you can’t go wrong with either choice when you level up, it’s nice to be able to shape your character to better fit your playstyle. The Knight Witch is a deceptively challenging bullet hell/deck-building/Metroidvania hybrid from developer Super Mega Team. It lures players in with its charming art style and mechanics, only to punish them for making the smallest mistake. It toes the line between feeling challenging and unfair, and while it often dips into the latter, the overall experience is a positive and rewarding one. The world of The Knight Witch is one reeling from a devastating war between science and magic. The survivors of the war fled underground to the city of Dungeonidas due to the surface being rendered uninhabitable. Here, players take control of Rayne, an aspiring Knight Witch who is forced to step up when a threat previously thought defeated returns and overwhelms the kingdom.

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The core of The Knight Witch’s gameplay is balancing traditional shooting and card-based magic. Much like other deck-builders such as Slay the Spire, The Knight Witch allows players to build a deck from over thirty cards, the order or which is randomized whenever a card is used. Rather than serve as an RPG element, the cards act more like special abilities that require a certain amount of energy to use. While some feel less effective than others, the sheer variety and creativity of the cards allows players a ton of flexibility. On the other hand, the traditional shooting mechanics are more frustrating than rewarding. Players can manually aim their fire, but the aiming cursor is small and easily lost while dodging fire; a task made difficult by Rayne’s speed which is nice for traversal but makes precise movement difficult. The result of this is a manual aiming system that is overwhelmingly inaccurate. There is an auto-aim mechanic present that remedies this problem, but result is less engagement with the gameplay. The Knight Witch’s biggest flaw are that boss fights feel unfair more often than they feel challenging.

The very first moments of the game have players controlling the most powerful Knight Witch in her battle with the previous war’s bad guy, meant to give players a taste of how powerful they can become. However, this power fantasy is dashed to ribbons when the sheer amount of screen space dominated by projectiles often makes it impossible to dodge without the right card. That said, Rayne will ultimately overcome them and be greeted by a lovable cast of characters. Rayne’s power increases over time by helping these characters who will then form a link to her, each one bringing her closer to her highest level and most powerful cards, collected like Pokémon. It’s a charming mechanic that fits into this world perfectly and adds a little extra investment into the inhabitants of this world. Overall, The Knight Witch is a charming and well-balanced experience that occasionally dips into unfair territory, but ultimately leaves players invested in the home they are fighting for. Super Mega Team’s The Knight Witch begins on an apocalyptic note, with the world on the brink of environmental collapse. The tyrannical Emperor Erebus labels Robyn, leader of the Knight Witches, an eco-terrorist fueled by “social engineering,”

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To which she notes that the greatest achievements of his people, the Daigadai, are ruining the planet. The battle between the emperor and Robyn causes the world to suffer, as it unleashes an ecological incident that causes the planet’s surface to become irradiated. The remnants of both sides flee into a conveniently discovered city, Dungeonidas, which hangs above the planet’s core. A whip-smart, beautifully hand-drawn bullet-hell Metroidvania, The Knight Witch does an exceptional job of conveying the difficulties of saving the planet via the pointed and topical analogies that are brought to the fore throughout the campaign. After its opening stretch, the game picks up 14 years later, with players assuming the role of the least powerful would-be Knight Witch, Rayne, as she seeks to prevent a second apocalypse. In the process, she realizes that she may be wrong about who the heroes and villains of her world truly are. The Knight Witch’s missions, while fairly straightforward, are never dull, with Rayne flying and shooting her way through enemy ambushes in the maze-like biomes of the Giga Tree, Mirror Lake, and Forge Fields to repair the complex machinery that sustains Dungeonidas. Each zone introduces a new concept, like dashing t dialogue choices in her post-mission pressers genuinely difficult.  AWAY Journey To The Unexpected Switch NSP

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