GUIDE TO KNIGHT TYME

How to get the Magic Knight back from the future

ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?

Until you get a valid

ID, Knight Tyme’s human crew won’t help you, but you need their assistance to make progress. The solution is to order the game’s droids and ship computer to produce the required identification, as they’re programmed to obey you – even if you give them suicide missions.

FIRST PRINCIPLES

Much of Knight Tyme involves travelling between planets and beaming down to their surfaces, but before that you have some basic chores to do. The pilot of the spaceship you’re on needs a starmap, he demands certain objects and can require an energy boost. You also have to fix the ship’s teleporter.

STAR TREK

The starmap in Knight Tyme is split down the middle, with one planet acting as a chokepoint that you have to visit to get from one side of the map to the other.

The problem is that it has orbital defences to fend off pirates, both of which you have to speed past without using too much fuel.

BEAM ME DOWN

As much fun as it is zipping around the galaxy, there’s a point to Knight Tyme’s star trekking. The idea is that you teleport down to planets in search of useful items and helpful characters. That said, not all of the worlds are friendly, so talk to their inhabitants before beaming down.

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

With the exception of Knight Tyme’s AI characters, everything in the game requires maintenance. Our hero – Magic Knight – and other humanoids, need to keep up their strength, either with futuristic fast food or a ‘fortify’ spell, and their ship regularly needs to be refuelled and serviced.