this, game. Oh, this game. So much fun. So beautiful. So awesome to listen to (this has to be my favorite song so far).
Love it.
Love it.
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You have to restart the entire level.
Nymphae
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What's this about Vita?
Do you mean entrance or ascent? Black Knight fight is in the entrance.
People taking things said during a near-sleepless livestream too seriously.
Hooray!
This game is really going to shine in speed and challenge runs. After 100%ing the game and doing a few speed runs myself, you really start to realise how genius the level design is and how interesting the gold and item systems are when you are coming up with routes to get through the game as quickly as possible. There's a lot to consider and I think there will be a lot of variety to how people try to run this game. The inventory / gold system means you will have a limited amount of gold to spend and will have to weigh up your options on what are the very best items to spend your time and money on getting. The levels have so many small details and speed tricks on top of this, there really is a lot to sink your teeth into if you are the kind of player who attempts high scores / low times.
The relics are useful in every level of the game, I've seen people who think they don't impact the level design much, but I think you need to look a bit harder. In particular the propeller dagger, phase locket, mobile gear and dust knuckles allow for a lot of interesting shortcuts, ways through enemies/obstacles and quickly killing bosses. The game doesn't require them and they aren't specifically needed to make it through anything aside from the item specific challenge levels, but this just opens up a variety of approaches to every situation. They have made the relics useful based on their utility rather than designing them to be the key to specific locks and I think the game is stronger for it. Speed runners are including the purple armor in their route so they have more magic to use their relics more often.
Here is the current best time on Personal Best Tracker(http://www.pbtracker.net/game/shovel-knight): 56:50 by Capndrake. If you are curious about how people are already routing this game and how they use gear and relics this should be interesting.
Gives me hope for the future.
I guess I'm not done with this game yet.
Scooter155
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So everyone compares this to Mega Man but the combat mechanics (especially the downward thrust) remind me more of Zelda 2, but I've only seen videos, haven't got the game yet. Am I at all accurate with that comparison? I actually really like Zelda 2.
CrowdChant
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Perhaps partly, but I believe the main inspiration is Scrooge's cane in the NES Duck Tales game (or recent remake).
Combat is a bit more like Zelda 2/Ducktales thanks to the melee attacking and down-thrust, but the game's general structure (8 themed levels capped off with a boss fight, minibosses, screen to screen transitions, relics that help with combat and traversal, etc) is definitely more Mega Man inspired. Throw those two inspirations in with the world map, a few challenge levels and the roving bosses, and that's Shovel Knight.
Scooter155
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Cool, thanks! It's getting harder and harder to not buy this game. Wish I had more time to play.
I saw some discussion but has there been any consensus on Wii U/3DS? Is the Wii U version 1080? Do you miss out on some graphical detail on the 3DS version?...
Chuckpebble
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sörine;119072237 said:
You know, there was this one part where I thought there must be an upward thrust as an upgrade or something. Then I looked around a little more. That would be neat though.
It's an awesome game. 3DS/Wii U seems to come down to whether the platform-specific features (3D and StreetPass for 3DS, Digger's Diary and the upcoming Battle Mode for Wii U) are more important to you personally, as well as the portable vs. console concern. I personally chose the Wii U version and am thrilled with it.
It would break a couple puzzles though, particularly in Treasure Knight's stage.
Delt31
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[steam folder]\userdata\[user number]\[game number]\remote\savedata.bin
You can find the game folder by sorting them by date modified. Mine happens to be 250760, but I dunno if it's the same for everyone. If you open the file in a text editor you can see it belongs to Shovel Knight.
Delt31
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much appreciated!
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
Ugh. Yeah, there's absolutely no way I'm going to be able to do the speed run feat. I think I've gotten all the ones I can.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Question about the No-Dying Feat and No Checkpoints.
For the no-dying, does it count if you play a level, die, then quit back to the main menu. Then try again?
And for the no checkpoints, does it count to beat a level, then replay them all and destroy all the check points, or must it all be in the initial run?
For the no-dying, does it count if you play a level, die, then quit back to the main menu. Then try again?
And for the no checkpoints, does it count to beat a level, then replay them all and destroy all the check points, or must it all be in the initial run?
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
That is my favorite so far.
Oni Link 666
Member
I had about 12 hours on the clock, but that includes all my idle time, so I don't know the real time.
I got this off a video recording of the ending I made.
ENDING SPOILER SCREENSHOT!
What's your high score? I think I'm around 4300.
I'm getting frustrated with the no gold feat, gonna dick around with that super jump code posted a while back.
Mobile Gear is also faster.
Yes. Also, recycle the code. That was taken from the NA pool. Details as to how to recycle it is in the latest KS/blog update.
1: The Xbox 360 was not region free, and you could also connect with accounts from other countries. Some content was region locked anyway.
2: To keep the context in place. It is about people blaming Nintendo for not having an European release. A rating may be an issue or not.
A lack of translation did not make Nintendo deny a release in the past.
(maybe eshop describtion texts?)
Where?
Smiles and Cries
Member
had a sweet $5 DDP waiting for me downloading on WiiU
Smiles and Cries
Member
always an update let me play 
So I'm missing one music sheet, No. 19. Following this guide, I collected the music sheet which they said was No. 19 (located in Tower of Fate: Ascent), but when I found it it was grey (indicating that I had already collected it), and I didn't have anything to sell to the bard when I finished the stage. I don't know if the guide is wrong, or if maybe there's a bug regarding collecting certain music sheets in New Game +. Can somebody with the 3DS version confirm whether or not the music sheet in the guide is in fact No. 19?
abstract alien
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Holy J. Christ at that entire end game. Wow. Whatever their next game is may be an insta-purchase. What a great design team, and they actually got in game "tutorials" right by seamlessly teaching while you play.
Game of the Year contender for me.
Game of the Year contender for me.
...I didn't even know it kept a score.
For what it's worth, there were 5 seconds left when I struck the final blow on Mole Knight.Never mind, I followed a different guide and found the real No. 19.
It shows your treasure total at the end. It's a score attack, not a time attack to beat mole knight....I didn't even know it kept a score.
So far, my best run is essentially destroying all the checkpoints and looting the room to the left of the second-to-last checkpoint. I don't have time for mole knight, who only gives a 2500 bonus.
The ign guide has some of the sheets mixed up, particularly end of days and the defender.
how did he manage to fight with boss "ghost boss" at 14:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJsJC1pfIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJsJC1pfIM
eddfromtheriver
Banned
So is this game akin to something like Duck Tales?, or what would be a more apt comparison?
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
Plague Knight and his stage are probably my least favorite part of the game. It's just annoying.
There's not really a direct 1:1 comparison. It's Shovel Knight. It's its own thing. It's a retro-styled 2D action platformer. If you like games like Mega Man and Castlevania, you'll probably like this game.
Go to the Hall of Champions and pay the entry fee.
I dug up more info on this Reize Seatlan character. Explains the heavily influenced "JRPG design".
http://seizui.wikidot.com/reize-seatlan
Doesn't look out of place in Shovel Knight though (In fact, I enjoyed his boss battle the most among the 4).
ElectricBlanketFire
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Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
What stage is the "dagger" item in? I don't know what it's called but its the only one missing?
Wreck-It Ralph
Member
If you miss a relic, the dude in the basement of the town will have it for sale.
Propeller Knight's stage. It's cleverly hidden.