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Kill Knight's twin-stick carnage asks an awful lot of you - but it's very much worth it


Twin-stick shooters are a fascinating contradiction. These are games in which you move and shoot while the hordes attac…

One: I often find myself moving through twin-stick arenas in chummy, lazy circles, as if I'm stirring a nice bubbling soup. Sword and gun, sure, but also a get-out-of-jail shotgun that is charged by collecting the stuff enemies scatter behind them as they die. Firstly, Kill Knight just urges you along from the start, with its hellish mediaeval death-metalism, everything stained album-art red and all the beasts and horrors scuttling towards you across the granite.

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