SBK Flash Game Available on Neopets

By
Tristan Oliver
– February 16, 2009

“Knight in Training” Has You Deflecting Apples

If the real game is as mind-numbingly simple as the recent Flash game based on Sonic and the Black Knight–or, at least, featuring characters shown in the upcoming Wii title thus far–there may be problems.

As it stands, the game on Neopets.com, dubbed “Knight in Training,” appears to be officially sanctioned and sponsored by Sega–in the sense that there are copyright notices for both Sega and Nintendo, and there are embedded links to the game’s trailer.

However, the actual game merely has Sonic, with a sword, deflecting apples being chucked at him by Knuckles, Shadow, and Blaze.  They’re all in medieval garb, and players use the arrow keys to control Sonic–nothing more.

The fundamental irony in all of this is that we were told at the New York Comic Con the apples were part of an overall health system.  Get hit by too many in this Flash game, and your game is over.

If you have a few minutes to kill, however, this doesn’t require tremendous amounts of energy to master.  Thanks to the folks at Taiwanese site Sonic Hub for letting us know of this tidbit via our News Tips system.  If you have something to share, click “News Tips” at the top of the page and tell us what you know.

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