{"id":11832,"date":"2014-05-12T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2014-05-01T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:54:14","slug":"the-witch-and-the-hundred-knight-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/the-witch-and-the-hundred-knight-ps3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witch and the Hundred Knight (PS3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WITCH_BOX\"<\/a>Once upon a time in a fantasy land, there lived an evil, spiteful swamp witch.\u00a0 She wanted to take over the world, but she couldn\u2019t leave her swamp home, or else she would lose her magical powers.\u00a0 So one day she summoned a magical creature called the Hundred Knight, who could leave her swamp and fight for her.\u00a0 Unfortunately for her, the Hundred Knight ended up being a cute little critter and not very fearsome.\u00a0 But with a little bit of her magic, the Hundred Knight could at least fight.\u00a0 In The Witch and the Hundred Knight for PS3, YOU get to play as the Hundred Knight and do the evil witch\u2019s bidding.\u00a0 Will you extend her swamp to the four corners of the earth?\u00a0 Find out in this action RPG from NIS.<\/p>\n

After the tutorial, you\u2019ll start out at the witch\u2019s house and can\u2019t go very far.\u00a0 Leave the area and you\u2019ll open a world map with areas you can visit.\u00a0 In each area, you must fight off bad guys and find special pillars.\u00a0 Destroy these pillars and they\u2019ll bloom into flowers that help extend the swamp.\u00a0 Each time you make a pillar bloom, it\u2019ll act as a warp point that you can come back to if you leave the area.\u00a0 At the end of each area is a larger pillar that is guarded by a boss.\u00a0 Defeat the boss and make the pillar bloom to complete the area and extend the witch\u2019s swamp grounds.<\/p>\n

The game is an action RPG, so you\u2019ll be battling enemies in real time, like a Zelda game.\u00a0 One button is for attacking with equipped weapons, another is used for dodging, and the rest are for special attacks and magical abilities you\u2019ll learn as you progress.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also have to watch out for a special kind of energy that is represented by a flame on your head.\u00a0 This energy lowers every time you take an action, or even when you are sitting still.\u00a0 If it runs out, you\u2019ll lose energy very quickly and if you lose all your energy, you\u2019ll have to start the level over and lose most of your collected items, if not all of them.<\/p>\n

As you play a stage, collected items are stored in your stomach, and you can\u2019t use them right away.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need to complete the area or at least leave it to go back to the witch\u2019s house and barf up the items so you can use them later.\u00a0 In some levels you can run across a small village.\u00a0 Raid each house successfully to take that house\u2019s treasure and extend your domination even further.\u00a0 Later on you\u2019ll learn to summon powerful monsters and use special magic attacks.<\/p>\n

The graphics in the game are very detailed and the music has a charming, jazzy feel to it.\u00a0 The action plays pretty good, but it gets quite difficult even on the \u2018casual\u2019 easy setting.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with this game is that a lot of the item management and level upgrade features felt more fiddly than fun.\u00a0 And the game wasn\u2019t very clear on how to use certain items.\u00a0 But if you enjoy action RPGs with a healthy dose of the brand of humor NIS is known for, than you may enjoy the game anyway.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Witch and the Hundred Knight is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Crude Humor, Fantasy Violence, Language, Partial Nudity, and Sexual Themes. When you destroy enemies, red and purple goo can sometimes appear, so I guess that would be blood.\u00a0 But most of the enemies you fight are cute little things like sprouts and pumpkin heads and caterpillars, so the violence isn\u2019t too grisly or horrific.\u00a0 There is lot of crude humor, and the swamp witch curses quite a bit and doesn\u2019t wear a whole lot of clothes, so that\u2019s where the language, partial nudity, and sexual themes come in.\u00a0 Sometimes it can be fun to play as the bad guy, but the witch wasn\u2019t a very likable character to me so I didn\u2019t enjoy it as much.\u00a0 Really the best reason why this game is better for teens and older gamers is because of the complexity of the gameplay and the high difficulty level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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