{"id":13854,"date":"2015-09-09T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2015-08-16T04:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T04:33:33","slug":"wind-up-knight-2-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/wind-up-knight-2-wii-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-Up Knight 2 (Wii U)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KNIGHT_BOX\"<\/a>In this downloadable Wii U game you control a knight with a wind-up key on his back. He can\u2019t stop running, so you must help him avoid obstacles and enemies in this 2-D platforming action game. I never played the first one, nor even heard of it, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s new or improved in the sequel.<\/p>\n

In each stage, you will need to jump over pits and spikes, swing your sword at enemies, hold up on the d-pad to raise your shield to protect yourself from falling objects, and hold down to roll under low underpasses. You can\u2019t stop, and the only way to turn around is to hit a wall. You can wall jump, though. If you get hit by anything dangerous, you\u2019ll have to start over at the last checkpoint. Collect wind-up keys to keep going and not run out of energy. When you pass the level, you\u2019ll earn a crest. You\u2019ll need to collect a bunch of crests to bypass a gate at the end of a group of levels, but you won\u2019t have enough just by completing all the previous levels. That\u2019s where sidequests come in.<\/p>\n

After you beat a level, three sidequests open up. In these quests, you replay the same level over with added challenges. Sometimes you must collect hidden diamonds, roll into bowling pins, go through the level without hitting enemies or collecting purple \u2018death coins\u2019 and more. Complete these challenges to earn more crests. Levels also have coins you can collect. Spend these coins to buy new armor and swords. Some of these items are purely cosmetic, but some help you collect coins or protect you from obstacles. Only problem is that most of the items are REALLY expensive and you\u2019ll have to play for a long time to buy many of them.<\/p>\n

Aside from the main quest, you can try tournament mode which lets you play a level from the main game. But you must collect diamonds found in bags that you must release by hitting them with your sword. If you collect enough and finish the level, you\u2019ll earn a piece of armor as a reward, and you can post your high score to a leaderboard. You can also play tournament mode with up to four players to see who can get the highest score, but it\u2019s just alternating single player and you can only use the Wii U gamepad and pass it around.<\/p>\n

The game has some fun cartoony graphics and a bit of sense of humor in the form of tweets and office memos from other medieval characters like a king, princess, etc. But the game gets pretty tough very quickly and there are much better runners out there, like Bit.Trip Runner 2<\/strong><\/a>. However, if you enjoy challenging platformers, you still may want to check it out anyway.<\/p>\n

\"KNIGHT_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Wind-Up Knight 2 is rated E for Everyone, and I\u2019m surprised it didn\u2019t get any descriptors because it does have mild violence and some crude humor. You can swing your sword at griffins and other monsters, but they just disappear when defeated. If you get hit, you just get knocked back. There is also a bit of crude humor as one of the enemies you avoid are farting cows. Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger players may get frustrated at the difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this downloadable Wii U game you control a knight with a wind-up key on his back. He can\u2019t stop running, so you must help him avoid obstacles and enemies in this 2-D platforming action game. I never played the first one, nor even heard of it, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s new or improved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13856,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}