Jet Set Knights

 Xbox One
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  1. MARBROLAYGAMING
    Sep 24, 2020
    9
    Yet another fantastic Arcade Style game!

    First up, if you have an Arcade style stick and button controller for your console setup, please make sure you use it with this game, you will not regret it! Jet Set Knights brings back the good old arcade style 2D games you use to sink money into after school. You play as a knight who must protect the princess at all costs from hundreds of    Yet another fantastic Arcade Style game!

    First up, if you have an Arcade style stick and button controller for your console setup, please make sure you use it with this game, you will not regret it!

    Jet Set Knights brings back the good old arcade style 2D games you use to sink money into after school. You play as a knight who must protect the princess at all costs from hundreds of evil monsters. The Princess is always stationed at the bottom of the level and you have the ability to build up a wooded wall each side of her to help with the protection. These walls do take damaged from the monsters and will fall but can be rebuilt if you have the wood to do it, so make sure to collect as much as you can when available.

    You can also collect bricks which will let you build robot style defences, these too will take damaged from the monsters and will also need to be rebuilt if needed. You will notice through out the game the different style of monsters that have come to attack the princess. Each monster takes a different amount of hits to be killed. The game also offers a number of different weapons, you start off with a sword but you can then obtain arrows, fire arrow, ice arrows, a spear which I like to call the spear of destiny which kills the monsters with a single touch and also works wonders on the Boss battles.

    There are also items that can freeze time, turn you into a pac-man style monster, health etc. The objective of each level is to defect the boss battle which I noticed comes randomly after a certain amount of waves. We have Giant Octopus and Ape bosses through to Snowman bosses and so on. There are five different levels with the ability to keep playing them with wave after wave. Once you defect the boss tho, you will unlock the next level but if you die without defecting the boss, its back to the start of the level for you.

    The game also offers a mini game section as well as a gambling section in the form of a slot machine where you can use the coins you have collected to try and get the jackpot to unlock new abilities.

    Wait there is more….Jet Set Knights also has Multiplayer! Yes you will have great fun playing alone but even more fun with up to four players local co-op.

    Overall the game is fantastic and I highly recommend playing it for that retro arcade memories!    … Expand

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  1. TheXboxHub
    Oct 19, 2020
    70
    Jet Set Knights’ heavy reliance on inspiration makes it feel altogether too familiar, with some aspects being replicated like-for-like. It’s not quite as entertaining as those games that inspired it, however if you’re not too hung up on originality you’ll find that Jet Set Knights on Xbox One is plenty of fun to play.
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  2. Xbox Tavern
    Oct 12, 2020
    75
    With a great combination of retro graphics and sound Jet Set Knights makes for a fantastic reminder of the good old days. The gameplay is solid and very fun to play either solo or co-op. There are elements that could do with a little polish but that’s more of a nit pick than anything. I had tonnes of fun with Jet Set Knights and look forward to the developers next title!
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