Watch Knack 2’s glorious destruction rock

I’m almost done playing with Knack 2, the new PlayStation 4 platformer game built around the character who can morph himself from a tiny creature to a behemoth in a second. My colleague Anthony John Agnello reviewed the game and concluded that it works. The game launched this week, and it’s a big improvement over the original title.

When Knack debuted for the launch of the PS4 in 2013, I was looking forward to it. But the game scored a weak 54 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic, with reviewers citing a convoluted story, uninspired level design, repetitive gameplay, and too little platforming. It was the “black sheep of the launch line-up,” according to Sony’s own PlayStation magazine.