I first heard about Gryphon Knight Epic when StrictlyLimitedGames announced that they were doing a 1,000 print physical limited edition of it for the PS4. I was lucky enough to order a copy before they sold out (they were sold out in less than 5 minutes!). You may remember that I asked if the game ran at 60fps on the PS4 Pro back in December.

Anyway, I was looking through my backlog (it's huge!) and decided to finally try out Gryphon Knight Epic and quickly became addicted to the game. It's like if Forgotten Worlds (anyone remember that game?), Metal Slug and Mega Man all got together and had a baby lol.

I really love the hand-drawn sprites and backgrounds. There's another topic about the pirate stage that someone posted about but it's definitely my favorite looking stage, I just love those shades of blue and the bright blue sky with the clouds in the background, just beautiful. Also love how you can slightly see the bottoms of the pirate ships and rocks submerged under the water a bit to add extra detail, just fantastic.

Also love a lot of other little details put into the stages like Mega Man's fossilized helmet, ROY G BIV being the secret potion color order to open the portal to a secret rune in the wizard's tower, what i think is supposed to be an Altered Beast Stage 2 wall of eyeballs boss reference in the first half of the Wizard's stage (yes? no? i dunno lol), the huge compendium with tons and tons of lore for everything in the game, all of the stage secrets and everything else.

I was wondering why there was an 8th weapon slot and a ?????? in the compendium for a weapon i didn't have despite beating the game, then being happily surprised when I was rewarded Evil Oliver's Spectral Crossbuster after beating the Magical Stone Dragon on Epic difficulty.

Gryphon Knight Epic has a lot of funny moments in it too. I love how the duck squire is there for no reason at all other than for an achievement/trophy to make him be quiet and how the one old pirate goes stumbling backwards when he fires the spreadshot musket lol.

Also, the mid-boss fights are GREAT! The bosses are always huge and really unique to one another and every sub-weapon (except the sword, that weapon sucks) can be really useful.

One question I must ask? Is the Frogmoth dialogue supposed to actually be secret words, or is it just totally random letters put together?

Also, I earned the Platinum about 12 hours ago, got the Purist (beat entire game using crossbuster only, i'm so glad that i can use the charge shot because i wasn't sure that would disqualify me from the trophy or not) and also got the Gryphon Speed trophy during the same run (my playtime was 1:35, under the 2 hours i needed, thank goodness i could use the 5 green potions i had).
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