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Three months after our import review, and our comments on Clockwork Knight 2 are like a re-run of our comments on the original. Basically, we don't care too much for either.

That's because we're not seven or eight year olds, who must think games like this are fab. It's all fancy graphics and funny characters. That's just the problem - it is all that and little else.

To be fair, Clockwork Knight 2 does have a damned sight more gameplay than Clocky 1, but still not enough in the way of thought-out challenge. The bosses are extremely impressive: especially the bathroom boss. But none take more than a couple of goes to defeat, and after that their pattern is predictable.

The addition of a playing-card quest, does make overall completion considerably tougher, but the feeling of shallow gameplay pervades. It might be a different story if both instalments were on the one disc.

Worthy of more attention than the original game, but still party to its weaknesses. There are better platformers.