The indie market is quite adept at covering almost every genre possible, but there aren’t enough good hardcore platformer games out there. In fact, they can be counted very quickly on the fingers of one hand. A small studio from Luxembourg took to the brutal world of Super Meat Boy, offering a less hardcore version of it in the form of a romantic Sir lovelot…
In the center of the game’s story is a young and loving knight who travels through the dangerous worlds of the fairy kingdom to meet his beloved princess, giving flowers to all the girls languishing in large stone towers. Our brave hero is able to jump, cling to ledges and shoot fireballs. A hike in search of a beloved cannot be called a simple walk, because on the way to the beauty’s heart there are numerous traps, monsters and platforms covered with thorns. On the other hand, there is no excessive hardcore here either.
As in the case of Super Meat Boy, players will have to overcome many obstacles to the saving flower and then to the princess tower. In this case, the hero in case of death, although teleported to the beginning of the screen, all the progress made is saved. All activated levers remain on, and destroyed monsters are killed, which simplifies the next run after respawning.
In the walls and niches of the levels, you can find secret passages, cuts and treasures that affect the maximum rating. Ideally, you should go through each of the forty stages, collecting the maximum number of special items and at the same time dying much fewer times than the game suggests, but even if you exceed these values, the level will be considered completed.
Despite the numerous fireballs flying at you, circular saws, cunning traps and dangerous monsters, due to the system of saving progress, the journey does not seem very tough, which on the one hand should please beginners, but on the other hand upset the fans of real hardcore. However, the latter can try to complete the game as quickly as possible and with a minimum number of deaths.
Musical accompaniment from Alexandra Falinski, who became famous for soundtracks for such mobile projects as Cut the rope, LightSlinger Heroes and Tap the frog fits well with Sir Lovelot’s fun atmosphere. Graphically, the game looks as cute as possible, thanks to hand-drawn animations and each of four dozen levels.
