Besides melding multiple genres together, the game also offers an outlet to experience the role-playing system separately. RPG mode comes complete with playable characters, skills, magic, hundreds of items (weapons, armor, amulets, belts, potions, bombs, traps, etc), NPCs, bizarre and dangerous enemies (humans, animal and monsters) and a light series of stories and quests to follow. KnightShift is far from being an epic role-playing experience in terms of its backstory but it sure is a lot of fun. While I played this game, I didn't pay much attention to the quest details - the action tells the tale for you; for example, a woman's husband wanders off and has been captured by a handful of human baddies so you head over wipe out said baddies, lead him back home to his wife, and get a prize. The story wasn't conveyed by five minutes worth of dialogue but rather by five minutes of action, followed by leading the wayward spouse back to his robust looking wife. Because the game provides map markers for you to follow during events, it's fairly straight forward - no reading is really required.