White Knight Chronicles Review

By Chris Hudak

Knights of ye olde republic.



A gallant Hero can be many things to many people—and before you’ve finished watching so much as White Knight Chronicles’ attract-mode opening movie, it’s clear that this is a game that wants to fill as many gaps as possible: It’s the square peg stuck into the round hole of the Japanese online console RPG market; it’s the tarry…

  • Single-player RPG or online co-op
  • Gleefully mixes genre and tone at will
  • Make your own GeoNet space
  • Items and experience transferable to online
  • Neither man nor beast, in terms of online
  • Linear and rather predictable
  • Notably uneven quality
  • Ambitiously-hobbled multi-player

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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