Knight Bewitched Reviews

Awesome game! How fleshed out, personal and important the stories of all of the main, secondary and even tertiary characters shocked me. I cant wait to play the next game, and the two after that. Also: LESBIANS!!!

TL;DR rating: 7.5/10. Good for the price its asking, wish the story was longer and had more time to flesh out the relationship. Highly recommend that you play on Hard in Enhanced Edition. Full review: Knight Bewitched follows the story of an Alchemist and Knight attempting to save the world. Ruth is a heroic warrior on the run from the king's law under the presumption that she has been bewitched by the witch Gwendolyn, whom she was tasked to kill. The story quickly becomes a race against time to prove both Ruth and Gwen's innocence as well as to resolve a larger conflict: the impending end of humanity brought on by an ancient force. [spoilers start] What of the story? Knight Bewitched, unfortunately, runs into the issue of feeling rushed. Gwen and Ruth's relationship hardly has time to navigate the overarching conflict in the story. There is a point at the halfway mark in the game where Gwen starts to act apprehensive around Ruth, which the latter points out only to have the discussion brushed off with the fact that the two have greater things to worry about. Eventually, it comes to light that Gwen has bewitched Ruth. This is something that was suspected since the start of the game. The bewitchment is minor, and only requires that Ruth agree with anything Gwen says as long as she uses a specific phrase. How would Ruth react to this? Presumably, this would be a major conflict in their relationship, however since the game is pressed for time to resolve the overarching story line... Ruth is only upset for a single cut scene, until Gwen's sister approaches her and informs her whatever romantic feelings the knight feels for the alchemist are hers alone. At that point, when the two talk again it is established that they're now in a relationship. It's an RPG, so the relationship isn't the main plot of the story. No, the major plot point is the evil dragon trying to destroy all humans. That being said, Ruth and Gwen are 1/2 of the main cast (Stray and Uno both have character turning points that I feel are better handled.) I had been hoping that their story would be better fleshed out. In fact, it kind of made me wish the game was longer. [end spoilers] I beat the game at ~25hrs, some of that time is from me being afk, so that being said I would wager this game is about 16-18hrs long. Additionally, I played on the hardest difficulty in enhanced edition which meant I spent more time grinding so I could 100% the game. The combat is classic turn based, the difficulty creep on hard felt a bit odd. There were times I was struggling with side bosses, and other times where I just completely obliterated them. There was even a moment in the endgame where a side boss (Strife) achievement popped and I hadn't even fought it yet, damn I guess I'm just that strong. Over all, I give this game a 7.5/10. It isn't bad, its not great, but it scratches the classic RPG itch and provides hours of content for the price it's asking. I will definitely be buying Knight Bewitched 2 to see if Ruth and gwen develop more alongside the additional cast.