The first game announced was a new franchise from Sony Japan Studio called Knack. Set in a colourful, cartoony world where goblins and humans are at war, players control the titular robot who is capable of exponentially growing in size by absorbing matter around him. He starts off as a cute little guy who couldn’t threaten our nans, but give him the opportunity and suddenly he’s bigger than a house and punching you in the face. The little gameplay we’ve seen looks to be standard actionplatformer fare in a Skylanders vein, strolling through bright levels and smashing up the hordes of goblins in your path. The Pixar-style graphics look wonderful, with some of the animation in cutscenes perfectly mimicking the kind of thing you see in blockbuster CGI films. Along with SCE Japan, famed developer Mark Cerny, who had a hand in such PlayStation hits as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and Uncharted, is directing and designing Knack. If it can evoke the same simple wonder that first exploring Crash Bandicoot can, we might be onto a winner with Knack. It might not appeal to everyone, but kids, and adults who never really grew up (that includes us here at Play) should have a ton of fun.
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