I don't know why this game received all of the bad reviews from critics but let me say this game is pretty awesome. Beautiful graphics and simple gameplay that you can get addicted to within a matter of seconds.

Sony's PlayStation 4 adventure aims to be simple and accessible, but it overshoots the mark to land at simplistic and uninteresting. I mean, it's not literally about cussing. You won't hear a single coarse word throughout the entirety of the adventure, whose story has been conspicuously crafted in...

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Bright and colourful; Easy to control; Katamari-style growing hero; Crisp and clean 1080p visuals

Cheap enemies; Way too repetitious; Dull characters; Strange art style

Knack is an action adventure game revolving around "The Doctor," a not-so-mad scientist who studied ancient relics from a long-lost civilization for many years and finally found a way to bind them together and give them consciousness.

Knack signifies two experiments in one: Knack himself as a technological marvel and construct comprised of ancient relics held together by an energy core, and Knack the game as an attempt to combine old-school difficulty and linear game design with new-school graphics and a checkpoint system.

Strong concept for protagonist; Beautiful environments and cel-shaded graphics; Old-school difficulty

Boilerplate characters; Beautiful environments and cel-shaded graphics; Repetitive level design; Extremely padded; Poor character progression; Tags

I choose to tackle the archer first, after I manage to avoid his incoming arrow using the right stick of my controller and, from the jump, I curl into a ball and take him out before I jump again to avoid a grenade and then slam into the robot.

Knack character design; Relic-based growth

Simple combat; Non-interesting story; Limited cooperative mode

As one of two flagship exclusive launch titles for the PlayStation 4 (the other being Killzone: Shadow Fall ), Knack has a lot of expectation to live up to as a definitive "next-gen" (now current-gen) experience. Console launches, however, are notorious for being a breeding ground of mediocrity.

Particle physics are great; Awesome animation and visuals throughout; Social features; Accessible yet challenging; Knack

The overt simplicity does not add anything to the genre..; ...in fact; it feels like a step backwards; Story falls apart more than Knack after a KO