About your zelda joke, some trees in SK looks quite like trees from Zelda games, ALTTP in particular.

I know it’s not really your thing, but could you review Habbo Hotel? It would make a nice little deviant of an episode, and I would LOVE to hear you tear the community to shreds. Thanks!

Are you still presently playing this game? You seem to know what you’re doing and I’d like to take you on a few level runs one of these days. :)

I have played this since the initial release. It’s definitely a cute game, that does get better with friends, but what doesn’t? One thing of note: the Crown to Energy exchange is player based, so changes fairly often, usually getting cheaper on the weekends, and also works like a simple auction house, so you can bid for low and see if the level ever reaches that in time. However, since you’re trying to buy energy from other people who have likely purchased said energy with real cash, the level has only been going more or less up since it began.

Oh, and the game has no real end-game content. Once you have your 5* gear and have played around in the shadow lairs (harder boss dungeons) there really isn’t anything to do other than make fancier gear to look pretty. Or play PvP, I suppose, but that tires pretty quickly, I found. Granted, that could take a person a long time to reach, so is more me being grumpy that very little content has been released since the game started.

Loved the game, I only wish I had a decent reason to play again without being bored.

I remember playing Spiral Knights for the first time two years ago during… I guess you could call it the alpha. I fell in love with it and was really disappointed when it ended only a week after I started.

When the game was officially released, I started playing it again, this time for half a year, before being burned out by the given content and not being that satisfied by what new content they presented. The PvP didn’t really do it for me since I had LoL for that, Blast Network being sometimes rather iffy to control and Lockdown being easily broken with the right equipment, and when the first DLC was released, I felt kind of ripped off since I expected at least what little story the game has to stay F2P. Nowadays, they have more fun selling accessoires in the same way Team Fortress 2 does: randomly and for cash.

Speaking of story… while it’s true that the game barely focuses on it, what little story there is just makes the whole scenario really plothole ridden when one thinks about it.

For example, since the plot is about stranding on an unknown planet that’s filled to the brim with mechanics and mysteries, what seems to be the main drive of it is a troop of knights that vanished on their quest to the Core and getting away from Cradle even though they discovered at least two sentient races and ruins of an ancient civilisation. I just really can’t get myself to give a toss about those guys because OOO doesn’t really seem to take advantage of the setting it’s got.

One of those races, the Gremlins, has been rumored to have constructed the planet and is, obviously, not very pleased that somebody’s leaving a big hole on something their kind spent Lord knows how much time building up. Meanwhile, the knights are trying to get to the Core to use its energy to repair their ship – which, I might add, you don’t get to see anywhere but in fan interpretations even though it seems to need as much energy as the entire fricking planet and can therefore not be very small – to return home.

Instead of, you know, asking that race that supposedly built an entire inhabitable planet for a bit of help. Killing them appears to be the better solution.

It can’t be communication problems either since, despite supposed to speak an “indecypherable language”, several gremlins talk face-to-face to you in a way you understand them. And what caused this war? No idea. I guess they were just scared by those giant rats with sharp teeth in hoodies wieding oversided wrenches yelling at them for demolishing their front yard.

Wow, I didn’t expect this post to become that long.

Still, can’t find myself disagreeing with anything said in the video. I like the art design and music of the game (hell, I actually bought the soundtrack) and it’s still nice for a quick round. Just never question anything in the plot and never try going from the first to the last level in one go. It’s really exhausting.

I’ll just say this: the Zelda vibe of this game is entirely deliberate. They even confirm this somewhere on the forums.