Knack
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Critic Reviews for Knack
With the difficulty dropped down to easy, Knack might find a place among younger gamers/new PS4 owners, but it's a tough recommendation otherwise.
Knack's shifting size is a great idea that never really grows into anything substantial.
Towards the end, at least, there are a couple of levels where the checkpoint balancing isn't quite so bad, and this also coincides with some better level design. By this stage you may also have unlocked a couple of gadgets that allow you to do things like slow down time or increase your damage multiplier. The rest of the game may be shallow, bland and repetitive, but here you get a sense of the kind of game Knack could have been if it had only dared to be a bit more complex in every respect.
Knack doesn't really do anything exceptionally well, and squanders your willingness to like it by constantly working against you. Yeah, I'm talking about both the game and the character again.
Knack offers up a fine adventure, with gameplay that slowly reveals its strength
Dull combat with little diversity banishes Knack to a dark realm normally reserved for the likes of foul goblins.
The moments of payoff come too infrequently to make plodding through another three dozen frustrating enemies any less tedious.
