Mark Cerny played a helping hand in designing many of the most precious and beloved platformers of the mid-90s, like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Because of the limitations of these consoles, however, they couldn’t provide a co-op experience. That’s all going to modify with Cerny’s PS4 launch game – Knack.

Sony announced today that Knack, like such a lot of other character driven platformers today, may have a co-op mode. Similar to in those games, Knack will feature drop in and drop out co-op so your pals and family can take part the action without interrupting it. That’s where the similarities end though.

The co-op characters in Knack – called Robo Knack – plays much just like the regular Knack. He’s a bit different though in that he can donate parts to and heal Knack with a press of the triangle button. In a feeling, Robo Knack could be the character that the more matured gamer will play as to assist the fewer experienced player.

Here’s a trailer showing the co-op mode in action:

Aside from the co-op mode, Sony also revealed a social element to Knack’s collect-a-thon gameplay. At certain points within the game, the players will find secret chests containing items which might be combined to create gadgets. Upon finding this kind of chests, the player can either take the article that was present in the chest, or the object that a pal present in the identical chest. Here’s the entire explanation:

Finding these secret rooms and collecting gadget parts and Relics is fun, but it’s much more fun when you’ve got friends playing the sport besides. Everytime you discover a secret chest, you’ll manage to either take the object you present in the chest, or choose any item a pal present in that very same room the last time they played. This may really turn out to be useful when you’re looking to complete those gadgets or unlock that last Knack variant. Your gadget collection even carries over to new playthroughs, so that you can work on getting all eight handy gadgets.

Finally, Sony shared more details regarding that Knack mobile game that we reported on yesterday. In brief, it’s an easy match-three puzzle game for iOS that permits players to win items which might be transferred over to the console game. While the sport is currently only available for iOS, Sony confirmed within the blog post that an Android version is coming soon.

[Image: PlayStation Blog]