Sir Lovelot is a knight who just wants to climb a tower using the hair of the captive princess inside, and fall in love.  But he gets kicked out the next morning, and has to do the process over again the next day, and there are all sorts of obstacles in his way.  He’s a persistent little knight!  Anyway, Sir Lovelot is a super challenging 2-D platformer available for nearly all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

To reach the princess in every level, Sir Lovelot will have to avoid all sorts of obstacles, like sawblades, spikes, dragons, and more.  It’s a good thing he’s no nimble!  You can double jump, climb up walls like Mega Man X, and even shoot rapid fire projectiles to defeat foes.  But you can’t just reach the tower and expect to be let inside by the princess.  Oh, no, you have to bring her a flower hidden in each stage.  In later levels, you’ll even have to find more stuff, like a ring as well as a flower!  These are some pretty demanding ladies!

Each stage is a few single screen obstacle ridden areas you scroll through, and not only must you find the things the princess wants in each level, there are other doo-dads to collect as well.  Such as coins and very well hidden ducks.  I don’t know why you collect ducks, but there it is.  After you reach the end of the stage, your score will be tallied and you get bonus points for finding the secret stuff.  But points are subtracted each time you die, so try not to do that.  Even though this game is super challenging, the play control is very smooth and responsive, so it doesn’t feel quite as frustrating.  Aside from the difficulty, the only other problem I had with the game is that the character sprites are so teeny tiny it was hard to see them sometimes!  But if you enjoy punishing 2-D platformers like Super Meat Boy, you’ll like this one, too.

Kid Factor:

Sir Lovelot is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Suggestive Themes, Fantasy Violence, and Mild Blood.  When you climb the maiden’s hair and enter the tower, the door closes behind you and hearts come out.  What are they doing in there?  The morning after in the next level, that princess kicks you out of her tower with a broken heart symbol and you have to find another lady.  But that’s about as suggestive as it gets.  You do get hit with all manner of sharp objects and monsters, but when you or anything else gets destroyed, you just see a liquid green splat on the screen.  I didn’t see any red blood, but sometimes the ESRB counts liquid that comes out of someone in an act of violence as blood (like bug guts) so that’s probably why that is in there.  Reading skill isn’t needed, but younger gamers may find it too difficult.

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