I don’t think the knight is lame at all, in fact I think it’s super cool, especially with Steve’s voice, but that being said, the game layout sucks. Steve should have designed the game so that the Knight was further back on the playfield and the layout included two ramps. The shield concept was great, but why not make it so it blocked a ramp shot. Having the lock there was just a bad idea and ended up being another element in the game that killed flow. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand what happened with this game........Steve wanted an upper playfield with a loop to mimic BK2000, but unfortunately it was never going to work well on a Stern (I would have thought he learned his lesson from GOT). His obsession with recreating the best part of BK2000 failed badly. He should have just evolved the concept and created a great game, with great flow, possibly utilizing a simple loop shot without an upper playfield like Elwin did on Maiden or perhaps something similar to the Getaway loop shot that locks into a castle instead of a donut shop. In some ways, I am disappointed because they got so much “right” in this game, in other ways I just smile. My BK2000 is my baby, the game that haunted me as a child and this new BK just affirms to me that nothing will ever make me give up my baby, not even the King himself.