Knights of the Round (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
297A playthrough of Capcom's 1994 beat 'em up for the Super Nintendo, Knights of the Round.
Played through as Percival on the hard difficulty level.
This is a pretty stellar conversion of the arcade game. It looks and sounds great, and it plays like a costumed, ye olde England retake of Final Fight with an RPG-style experience leveling system thrown into the mix. It ditches the grapple system, and replaces it with commands for a power strike and a block like in King of Dragons. If an enemy attack is successfully blocked, you're granted a couple seconds of invincibility, so fighting requires a bit more strategy than moving slightly up or down to get out of the way. And you occasionally get to ride on a horse, which I thought was pretty neat.
The graphics are really well done. The character sprites are smaller and the backgrounds have some details and color missing from the arcade version, but you probably won't notice unless you compare them side-by-side. The sound is excellent, too. The tunes all have a fun fantasy style going for them, and I love the big trumpet fanfares - they suit the Camelot theme perfectly. The music is on par with the arcade's - the instrumentation is a bit thinner, but the sampled instruments often sound richer than the original game's FM ones.
I remember when this came out thinking just how unfortunate it was that Capcom released both this and King of Dragons in the same month. Rather than being treated as entirely separate releases by the magazines, they got lumped together and criticized with mediocre ratings - well below what Nintendo Power and GamePro tended to rate most of Capcom's SNES games. Maybe they wouldn't have been met by such a lukewarm response if Capcom had promoted them more and released them a couple months apart from one another.
If you like beat 'em ups, Knights of the Round is a great port of a classic Capcom arcade brawler and well worth your attention.
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