Playing through "Knights of the Round" from "Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle" on PS4 with Arthur!
The 1991 "Knights of the Round" is simpler and faster-paced than Capcom's 1994 "Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom" that I just played ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdTH_R_HbKM ), and indeed I wanted to play Knights after feeling like Tower, a game where you also hit things with swords, was a bit on the slow side. In that regard, Knights hit the spot.
There's a bit of finesse available, if you want to use it, for a couple more complicated sword-twirling moves, but it felt a lot more sure and effective to just bang away with the regular hitting things motion. That's pretty much all such classic Capcom beat-em ups as Captain Commando and Final Fight (also in the Beat 'Em Up Bundle--which I see is called "Capcom Belt Action Collection" in Japan, according to Wikipedia--oh my gosh that is an amazing title!) needed, but I wouldn't put Knights' action quite on that level, as it's still a bit slower, smaller, and just not quite as punchy as those titans of the genre.
It's cool how your character looks fancier and fancier as they go up in level (more or less automatically as you play through).
One area where Knights has nothing on Tower is the bosses: Tower has some really memorable, impressive-looking beasts of bosses, whereas Knights mostly has some large-ish people in fairly goofy-looking armor.
Still, it's solid sword-whacking action (oh! One neat touch is that baddies you knock down can crash into other baddies behind them and bowl them over), and uh here it is with that Arthur guy!
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