Have a swinging time with Cloud Knights
The premise of Cloud Knights is simple, players control a knight who must defeat the enemy and occasionally protect another knight. However, Cloud Knights features a control scheme where the knight uses swinging his weapon as his only means of movement. This leads to interesting battles where players have to manage to stay on a platform while trying to take out the enemies. Cloud Knights is compatible with iOS devices running iOS 8.0 or later.
Cloud Knights includes 60 levels in the campaign, which vary in the types of enemies, amount of enemies players might face and at the end of each chapter there is a boss battle. Players have a choice is whether they want to face these levels alone in single player mode or with a friend in co-op. Cloud Knights features local two player co-op gameplay as well as a versus mode. In the co-op mode, each player is weakened slightly but are much stronger when they work as a team to take out an enemy. In the versus mode, players get to battle one another, trying to either deplete the other player's health bar or knock them off of the platform. As with campaign mode, versus mode also allows players to go it alone and play against the computer. This is helpful for building up skills for eliminating enemies as players are practicing against one enemy.
One downside to Cloud Knights is that a multiplayer mode doesn't make a lot of sense when playing on a phone. However, on an iPad, this mode works perfectly fine. Multiplayer mode is possible on a phone, it is just limiting as two people are trying to see on a smaller screen and control their characters at the same time.
Cloud Knights does a pretty good job of keeping the game engaging and fun while also being a good balance of difficulty with each level. Players can get health or weapon power ups by breaking boxes or treasure chests, which is really handy when fighting a tough opponent. Some levels feel a bit too hard when you first get to them but after a couple of tries, players learn more about the platform and enemies which makes the level manageable. While some levels feel like they jump a little in difficulty, players can still get through those with just a few retries. There are four weapon types for players to choose from and the base weapons are all available by the end of the first chapter through unlocks. These weapons can be upgraded the further players progress through the game.
Cloud Knights is US$3.99 and I personally wouldn't spend that much for an iOS game with this level of content. It is a fun game with interesting control schemes and would be enjoyable for anyone who likes action games that require some strategy.
