Muffin Knight Mobile Review

Some knights rescue the girl. Others save complete kingdoms. In Angry Mob Games' newest title you are none of these. All you are forced to do is catch muffins. Many muffins.

Can you handle that, save your one true love, and stage up to be a better hero? You landed in Muffin Knight.

Just when you wonder you’ve seen everything on the App Store, a developer arrives with a fresh curveball.

Muffin Knight Mobile Review

Now, it’s Angry Mob Games (of Predators fame), who represent the tale of a boy changed into a minute knight and tasked with collecting all the magic muffins he by mistake blew sky-high.

The game’s title and intro may have the player considering this little tyke will spend all his time as a Muffin Knight (Out Now, $0.99), but in reality, the fairy godmother accountable for this conversion has much more magic up her sleeve.

Allocated as a platform game, Muffin Knight is closer in strength to the arcade action game Joust. You have a little area to move around in (maybe a screen or two in width or height), and half the fight is merely moving around without dying - either through declining into pits of fire, or touching the opponent.

The other half of the fight is, well, the fight, and getting into a safe-ish place so you can assault the enemy.

Game Play of Muffin Knight Mobile

Muffin Knight includes six platform arenas a little larger than one screen each. The player’s work is to rush around gathering muffins that come out in arbitrary locations, making sure to devastate or at least avoid enemies that drop in to collide with his gathering spree.

Failing to dispatch enemies creates a penalty. If they direct to filter through to the pit sitting at the bottom of a level, they’ll drop back in and line their way through twice as fast, making it that much tougher for the player to avoid them when they come around again.

Muffin Knight‘s levels are played fundamentally considerably, but Angry Mob Games implants a nice sense of progression by letting the player undo new levels and character classes as gathering goals are satisfied.

And it’s the character class varying that will go down as Muffin Knight‘s most outstanding gameplay element. While the player’s doing all this rushing around, the most unusual thing occurs: the fairy godmother, monitoring from somewhere offscreen, randomizes the player character’s costume and offensive capabilities every time he gathers a muffin!

One moment he’ll be throwing arrows as the eponymous Muffin Knight; the next he may be a Unicorn placing rainbow turds that blow up once enemies step on them. I’m not creating that last part up — it’s the developer’s sense of humor at work.

The regular and randomized feature of Muffin Knight‘s class change system is harsh to the point that I wouldn’t essentially support developers to keep doing something exactly like this, but I must confess it works wonders in keeping an otherwise simple action platformer persistently fresh.

Pros and Cons of Muffin Knight Mobile Game

While the character classes feel almost equivalent in terms of progress and jumping ability, their unpleasant natures differ widely. Many have a familiar handicap; the Monkey can fall prey to its rebound bananas, the Bird slings eggs at an angle that leaves it not capable to target enemies directly in front of it, and the Frog takes forever to prep a tap of its mighty tongue.

Other classes – like the Unicorn and boomstick-wielding Gnome – are privileged, and present the player relative security for their unpleasant skills. There’s no telling what the player will alter into the next time a muffin is collected, so triumph needs a lot of speedy adjustments.

Players can press extra mileage out of an online multiplayer mode, which depths two contestants against each other in a race to collect the most muffins.

As in the single-player mode, these play out in arena settings with enemies continually dropping in.

The populace of Muffin Knight players is still too small to assure a match judging from our experience over the weekend, so players will want to systematize ad hoc competitions with friends ahead of time.