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It’s a massive missed opportunity. Knack is meant to be a mystically sentient life form – new to this world, essentially – so why isn’t that explored? Where’s his sense of wonder? Or confusion? Or growing understanding about the world? The absence of any kind of meaningful dialogue, and thus on-screen relationship, with the main human protagonist Lucas is also baffling. Shouldn’t their dynamic be at the heart of the game? There was so much more Japan Studio could have done with this duo.

The cast of largely uninteresting characters is wrapped into a story that would be at home in a second-rate Saturday morning kids cartoon. It’s a tale of High Goblins and city-devouring robots, ancient technologies and revenge plans… with some painfully awkward adolescent romantic tension tossed in for good measure. By the end the stakes are suitably high and you’ll become invested simply because, well, you’re ten hours in now, but it’s not good.

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