Knights and Bikes

Review from 2020:
Super cute and wholesome game about a little girl coping with the loss of her mom. The coop AI is very smart, only getting hung up once. Cute cute cute.

This game might not be for everyone, but I had a really great time playing it with a friend. It felt very nostalgic and reminded me of how I used to play with my old friends when I was a kid.
The soundtrack is beautiful and It reminded me of Life is Strange, which is one of my favourite games.
The story was a bit confusing at first, but as it went on, it became very emotional, especially when it started talking about grief. Overall, it is a kind and fun experience .

The positive review is by a narrow margin, because there is quite a lot going on in the game, and several parts of it are definitely not at their peak implementation (controls in general, object recognition, some enemies, and more). However, there is good counterbalance in an interesting, not too forced story, a solid solution for the "replay a day" feature, and some nicely unexpected subversions of usual game expectations. The game has a slow start, but turns out to be quite enjoyable towards the end.
Fun side note: Other Double Fine games suffered from a poor auto-save feature, whereas this one auto-saves like crazy!

Cute, whimsical, and weird. The messy, scrapbook visuals are a delight and I adore the overall tone of the adventure, but the game is mostly style over substance. We got a little bored after just a few hours. Gameplay starts slow and the mechanics it eventually gains aren’t the most interesting ideas. Music seemed to be missing from plenty of scenes. The absence of voice acting can be felt pretty hard here too. Long strings of silence as both players read the on screen text is a vibe that just doesn't fit a co-op game. Maybe adding voices would've also further emphasized the game's fun Britishisms as well. Either way, the time we did spend with the game was an entertaining co-op romp.

I was looking for a game to play with a friend and this game seemed to suit the bill nicely. It's whimsical and fun, and has both co-op elements and light combat. My friend has not been a hardcore, lifelong gamer like myself and I wanted to start with something easier. I also didn't want a game where we were fighting each other or just clobbering everything. Some of the battles were tough, even from the perspective of someone with more experience, but we muddled our way through. Fighting tends to be more strategy than brute force. I liked that neither of us had been exposed to the game before so we got to explore it and figure it out together. My main gripe mechanics-wise is that the bikes were hard to get going and steer, but eventually you get them rolling enough to careen onward.

Overall I found the game fun and it made me laugh quite a few times with its innocent humor. I love that the goose follows you around everywhere. It was a nice way to spend a few nights with a friend. The plot is light and a bit generic, but that leaves more room to explore without any pressure.

Also, I had a hard time figuring out how to upgrade the bikes early on. If you hit Escape there's an option to do it in the menu! You don't have to be in the bike shop; you can do it anywhere at any time!

This is a very sweet, imperfect and charming game. The highlights for me after playing it are the story and the soundtrack. It is a game that feels like childhood: charming and wonder-eyed. It won't click with everyone and it is not an "I liked it 100%" from me, but I enjoyed it a lot and I want to see this dev team make more games. This is the sort of game that you can even play with your children and it has the feel of a children story book with cut-outs and lovely characters.

Gameplay is kind of boring like Psychonauts 2, I only recommend it if you can get someone to play with you. Everything is more fun with a friend and this is no different.
If you don't have a friend, give it a shot solo and see if the story hooks you, if it does, 10 bucks is a good deal imo. But I wouldn't suggest slogging through it for the gameplay if it doesn't. Just not enough going on the gameplay side of things. Combat is over emphasized and with being just a 3 hit combo and the occasional use this attack so the enemy can take damage again from your 3 hit combo, its just not doing it for me. The exploration isn't that fun either especially with how you get around. For being called knights and bikes the bikes aren't that deep. For being restricted from certain zones, they should be a lot more fun to ride around, but they just aren't. Sprinting isn't that much slower either and doesn't require the constant (not even a mash) tapping of the pedal button.
The presentation is peak and that might just be enough for you. The characters expressive faces reacting to story, the gameplay, sometimes even the environment like getting splashed with water or something, that kind of stuff stands out to me.. I'm driven to keep playing just for that kind of stuff. The story is intriguing, but its hard to know if its actually good until I get through it, so i can't say much here. For 10 bucks its worth at least trying. With a friend it definitely won't be boring. No friend, 50/50. Give a hour to it and see if you are digging it, otherwise refund.