Calling all Black Clover fans! Your favorite shounen series has found its way into the video game world thanks to Bandai Namco Games in the form of Black Clover: Quartet Knights for the PS4 and PC! Play as various characters from the Black Clover world like Asta, Yami, Noelle and Yuno as well as several others. Those who love 4 vs 4 games will also be in for a treat as Black Clover: Quartet Knights is focused on various multiplayer themed modes! Need to know more about Black Clover: Quartet Knights? Continue reading on, folks, so you can see what to expect from Black Clover: Quartet Knights as well as our full review of this action adventure title.

Black Clover: Quartet Knights isn’t a fighting game like many thought it would be but instead focuses on a third person action theme. Players will team up alone with AI teammates or go online to battle against others to see who the best magical knight is. With a story mode that focuses on an original tale not seen in the anime and several modes of play including challenge mode and online, Black Clover: Quartet Knights is the title you’ve been waiting for if you wanted a good video game adaptation. Who will you play as first? Asta the knight without proper magic or Yuno his childhood friend/rival? Regardless of your pick, enter the magical world of Black Clover: Quartet Knights for a truly unique anime video game title!

Black Clover: Quartet Knights delivers a unique story focusing on Asta’s friends and comrades. After exploring a magical rune, a trap unleashes causing Yami Sukehiro—Asta’s captain of the Black Bulls order—to turn de-age back to when he was 14. The timing is horrible as well seeing as the Clover Kingdom is about to be attacked by a new threat that might challenge Asta and his friends to a battle they are far from ready for. Will Asta be able to rise against this new threat and save his captain? A new journey awaits the Black Bulls in Black Clover: Quartet Knights!

Anime themed video games can be categorized into two different classes. There are the anime games that release with a lot of love and heart put into them to appeal to fans and newcomers alike. Then there are the anime games where they are semi-rushed to release alongside the anime/manga they are based off on to nab some quick cash from fans. That’s why we worried about Black Clover: Quartet Knights from developers/publishers Bandai Namco Games. While we know Bandai Namco Games usually delivers excellent games, we wondered about Black Clover: Quartet Knights and waited patiently for its release. Finally, we have our hands-on Black Clover: Quartet Knights and we also have our fears removed…but is that a good thing? Let’s find out together in our review of Black Clover: Quartet Knights for the PS4!

Black Clover: Quartet Knights is a very unique game that took us by surprise here at the hive. Rather than be an atypical fighter—which most anime games tend to be— Black Clover: Quartet Knights is a third person action title that has a multiplayer feel to it. Players take control of various characters from the Black Clover universe and do battle in teams of 4 against either other players—so 8 players in total—or the AI. For our review of Black Clover: Quartet Knights, we’ll first talk about the pros and cons of the single player mode and then we’ll discuss the multiplayer mode.

In terms of the story mode, Black Clover: Quartet Knights is a bit of a mixed bag. The story mode focuses on an original story that utilizes various characters from Black Clover and it works sometimes but also fails just as much as it works. The main idea of the story mode is to ensure players a neat way of understanding the main mechanics of Black Clover: Quartet Knights. Here we have players learning the various modes that are often in the multiplayer for Black Clover: Quartet Knights such as control or move a giant crystal from point a to point b—think of Overwatch’s payload battles—and also learning the different characters. Black Clover: Quartet Knights features Asta being the main character that must be used for each story mission—though in challenge mode or when you beat a story mission, you can use other knights—and shows the fighter class primarily. There are however several other classes—ranged, support and healers—but you’ll need to learn these characters by playing challenge mode, which by the way is just a mode to teach the player how a specific character works all while performing specific actions to net money for items and/or beating the story mission one time with Asta then switching to another hero in that mission.

While story mode does a great job with its presentation—the anime cutscenes are really awesome—it falters with some cheap ideas. More times than not, you’ll find yourself watching still characters on screen and that makes you long for the great anime cutscenes we mentioned prior. Story mode also feels more like a training mode which is strange given the fact that there is a training mode to see in Black Clover: Quartet Knights. Plus, the fact that you need to use Asta before using another character—when there’s little reason to replay a mission unless you want cash for items in game—kind of is a let down as we would have liked to just play as other characters by default. Challenge mode, we mentioned, does have a freedom to play all the characters but it’s not a 4 vs 4 mode and that makes it more of a way to just learn a character’s skills and movesets.

Black Clover: Quartet Knights truly shines best though when you hop online to play against others. Here in this mode, players get to fight 4 vs 4 battles with several different games modes that are randomized just like the maps are. The different modes make for some nice variations to be had and we loved that players can truly feel challenged unlike the story mode which isn’t tough even on hard mode. The only issue with multiplayer we had while playing Black Clover: Quartet Knights is that the screen can get a bit busy with tons of magical attacks flying around and stats/images to deal with. It’s not game breaking, but we did lose several times because we only saw explosions and spinning attacks from Asta and others like him. We do also hope Bandai Namco Games will have more maps and characters to come as that would make the multiplayer last for a bit longer.

Lastly, let us mention the visuals and sound for Black Clover: Quartet Knights. Like the anime, Black Clover: Quartet Knights is a real treat to witness in play. Characters are drawn with a lot of attention to detail so they mirror their anime counterparts and the various attacks and spells do the same for that added flair. While the still CGIs we mentioned in the story mode might be a bit flat, even those are artistically done which makes them at least bearable. The music and voice acting also is quite on par with the Black Clover series with voice actors and actresses reprising their roles for their characters. Needless to say, if you worried Black Clover: Quartet Knights won’t look as epic as the anime, let us ease those pains and say it looks perfectly fine.

Black Clover: Quartet Knights is a fun multiplayer game but falters slightly with its single player execution. While the story mode has some clever ideas to teach players the different game modes and also features a fun original story using themes from the anime, often it just feels tedious and underdone. Going online however alleviates this issue with fast paced multiplayer battles that are exciting—but sometimes a bit busy visually—and fun. For fans of Black Clover’s anime series, Black Clover: Quartet Knights will be a 100% recommendation since it really has a lot to it that makes for a solid anime themed game. Newcomers to the series will also welcome the multiplayer features but might find the single player a bit dull at times and only good for training purposes. Regardless though, we’ve seen bad anime themed video games but luckily Black Clover: Quartet Knights isn’t one of them.

We didn’t know what to expect from Black Clover: Quartet Knights when it was first announced a while back, but with the final product, we’re happy to say the game was pretty darn good. You can see where Black Clover: Quartet Knights suffers from some quick design ideas here and there—those static images during story mode for example—but the overall package is quite enjoyable. We don’t know if Black Clover: Quartet Knights will have a long life ahead of it—multiplayer wise—but if Bandai Namco Games continues to add on to it and release new maps, characters and various other DLC, then we’re sure it will do quite well to keep fans from growing bored. Have you played Black Clover: Quartet Knights yet or plan to? Comment below to tell us and share your thoughts and opinions with us here. For all your gaming reviews and anime themed articles, be sure to keep stuck to our hive here at Honey’s Anime.