The population of Muffin Knight players is still too small to guarantee a match judging from our experience over the weekend, so players will want to organize ad hoc competitions with friends ahead of time. As in the single player mode, these play out in arena settings with enemies constantly dropping in. Players can squeeze extra mileage out of an online multiplayer mode, which pits two contestants against each other in a race to gather the most muffins. There’s no telling what the player will transform into the next time a muffin is collected, so triumph requires a lot of swift adjustments. Other classes – like the Unicorn and boomstick-wielding Gnome – are clearly advantaged, and offer the player relative security for their offensive prowess. Many have a clearly recognizable handicap the Monkey can fall victim to its own boomerang bananas, the Bird slings eggs at an angle that leaves it unable to target enemies directly in front of it, and the Frog takes forever to prep a flick of its mighty tongue. While the character classes feel roughly equivalent in terms of movement and jumping ability, their offensive natures vary widely. The automatic and randomized aspect of Muffin Knight‘s class change system is jarring to the point that I wouldn’t necessarily encourage developers to keep doing something exactly like this, but I must admit it works wonders in keeping an otherwise simple action platformer constantly fresh. I’m not making that last part up - it’s the developer’s sense of humor at work. While the player’s doing all this rushing around, the most bizarre thing happens: the fairy godmother, observing from somewhere offscreen, randomizes the player character’s costume and offensive abilities every time he collects a muffin! One moment he’ll be slinging arrows as the eponymous Muffin Knight the next he may be a Unicorn laying rainbow turds that explode once enemies step on them. Muffin Knight‘s levels are played essentially infinitely, but Angry Mob Games instills a nice sense of progression by letting the player unlock new levels and character classes as collection goals are satisfied.Īnd it’s the character class changing that will go down as Muffin Knight‘s most memorable gameplay element. If they manage to filter all the way through to the pit sitting at the bottom of a level, they’ll drop back in and thread their way through twice as fast, making it that much more difficult for the player to avoid them when they come around again. Failing to dispatch enemies exacts a penalty.
The player’s job is to rush around collecting muffins that appear in random locations, making sure to destroy or at least avoid enemies that drop in to crash his gathering spree. Muffin Knight contains six platforming arenas slightly larger than one screen each. The game’s title and intro may have the player believing this little tyke will spend all his time as a Muffin Knight ( Out Now, $0.99), but in truth, the fairy godmother responsible for this transformation has many more tricks up her sleeve. This time it’s Angry Mob Games (of Predatorsfame), who present the tale of a boy transformed into a diminutive knight and tasked with gathering all the magic muffins he accidentally blew sky-high.
Just when you think you’ve seen everything on the App Store, a developer comes up with a new curveball.
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