{"id":16999,"date":"2017-10-30T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16999"},"modified":"2017-10-04T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T02:44:34","slug":"kings-knight-wrath-of-the-dark-dragon-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/kings-knight-wrath-of-the-dark-dragon-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"King’s Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s \u201cFree-to-Play Week\u201d at GamerDad, where we\u2019ll look at free mobile titles all week!\u00a0 In Final Fantasy XV, some of the characters enjoy talking about and playing a video game in their world called King\u2019s Knight.\u00a0 And now you can play that game for free on mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 But King\u2019s Knight has a bigger history than that.\u00a0 Read on to find out more!<\/p>\n

King\u2019s Knight was originally a game on the NES.\u00a0 It was a 2-D vertically scrolling shooter with fantasy themes.\u00a0 It even predates Final Fantasy, but as a kid I never heard of King\u2019s Knight until AFTER Final Fantasy came out.\u00a0 After Final Fantasy was released, I was really big into Square games and tried to look up as many as I could.\u00a0 I was glad to find out that Square made a NES game I already had called Rad Racer.\u00a0 But there was one Square game I hadn\u2019t played but I did see it once in the box at the front of a grocery store that rented games and movies, too (grocery stores used to do that).\u00a0 Later on they actually had that game for sale, and I kind of wish I would\u2019ve bought it.\u00a0 But I had also heard the game wasn\u2019t that great, so I didn\u2019t feel too bad.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s a screenshot from the NES version of King\u2019s Knight.<\/p>\n

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Luckily the mobile update is TONS better.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a vertically scrolling shooter with fantasy themes, but the graphics and gameplay are vastly improved.\u00a0 The story is set after the events of the original game and even feature some of the same characters.\u00a0 In this one, a group of wicked people are trying to revive a dark dragon, and you\u2019re on a quest to stop them.\u00a0 When you start a game you\u2019ll be given a random character to play as (I got a cool floating female warrior angel gigas thing).\u00a0 But you\u2019ll be able to get more characters later and switch them out.\u00a0 Each has different powers and skills.<\/p>\n

Just like in the original game, you can destroy certain obstacles like trees and some rocks.\u00a0 Defeat enemies and bosses and find treasures.\u00a0 Each stage has three hidden medals to find, too.\u00a0 You can also participate in side quests and timed events to get even more items.\u00a0 Use your items to upgrade your characters and their weapons.\u00a0 As a free-to-play game, it probably gets very hard at some point and you\u2019ll have to spend money or play a long time if you want to progress, but with over 100 stages, it will take a long time before that happens.\u00a0 The stages are at a perfectly short length for handheld gaming as well<\/p>\n

The game has a few problems here and there.\u00a0 The story sections are pretty boring and aren\u2019t really necessary, and the gameplay is a bit repetitive.\u00a0 Also, I could download it on my iPad but it would always crash before I would even start, so I had to play it on a relative\u2019s iPad.\u00a0 But then, my iPad is pretty old (I\u2019ve had it since 2012) so that may be why. I think the worst problem, however, are the controls.\u00a0 You use virtual touch screen buttons to move, jump, and shoot, and my fingers would always slide around and hit the wrong buttons.\u00a0 The game looks and plays like a console-quality game, so I wish it really was on a console where I could play it with an actual controller.\u00a0 It would also be fun as a two-player co-op game, too.\u00a0 You can play an online co-op mode in this one, but I could never find a room with people in it to play with.\u00a0 But if you enjoy playing classic games from Square\u2019s history, it wouldn\u2019t hurt to check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n

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

You shoot monsters with magic blasts and they fall over and disappear in a puff of light when defeated, and that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s \u201cFree-to-Play Week\u201d at GamerDad, where we\u2019ll look at free mobile titles all week!\u00a0 In Final Fantasy XV, some of the characters enjoy talking about and playing a video game in their world called King\u2019s Knight.\u00a0 And now you can play that game for free on mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 But King\u2019s Knight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16999","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\/16999","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=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17001,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions\/17001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}