45 minutes of video can be a pretty good indicator.
Shovel Knight |OT| The 8-bit adventures of Butt Butt Goes to Europe & Australia
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45 minutes of video can be a pretty good indicator.
Getting 3DS, I like to play on the go.
Well, could you explain why you thinks it looks monotonous?
I'm getting it on 3DS so I can play it anywhere, and I'll probably double dip on Steam later on when there's a discount. By then the multiplayer battle arena should be out too, so I can put that on a big screen and play with friends.
It was just a whole heap of basic platforming with the occasional mini boss here and there that looked really easy to defeat. The secrets are well placed, you'll need to keep an eagle eye out, but otherwise the periods between the main boss fights looked boring to play through in comparison.
Huh? That's not the impression I have of the level design in the game at all. The levels all have unique properties and challenges. There are unique gimmicks which keeps things interesting.
Plague Knight's stage has a really cool lightning/darkness effect where some parts of the stage hides platforms and enemies in pure darkness, and you can only see them when lightning flashes in the background, lighting everything up.
King Knight's stage has areas where you use bounce off flying propeller rats, and some of the enemies have sword/shield mechanics to them so you approach the combat differently.
Mole Knight's stage has lava and cooling gel stuff which you need to use to create safe areas to bounce to the next areas, and there's an entire sequence where you ride through the lava on the back of creature.
Lots of cool stuff, and many of the better secrets definitely encourage exploration since they could be in totally optional parts of the stages, sometimes with much tougher platforming challenges to get to the rewards.
delayed
it's a tragedy
NOOO. You're kidding me.
The sacrifices for this damn computer.
Correct, regardless of the level of 3D effect.
That's awesome.
Stone Ocean
Member
I'll be snagging this, thanks a bunch
Snkfanatic
Banned
Can't wait for this! My Wii U is ready 
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
The StreetPass battle sounds awesome, I hope to actually StreetPass someone who owns this game. I will be hitting up those Relay Points over the course of the next month!
Don't forget, you can always do the StreetPass Home Relay thing!
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Been waiting for this for ages, but I can't wait to dig my teeth into this game on 3DS.
Double Dipping for Wii U. Triple dipping for steam sales.
Double Dipping for Wii U. Triple dipping for steam sales.
Dwight Schrute
Member
EU wants this and 1001 spikes dammit !!
Scythesurge
Member
So excited to finally be playing this game in the near future! Shovel Knight really awakens the little kid playing NES all the time in me! 
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Yeah, I may end up doing that for this game.
Moff
Member
wow, then its an easy choice, 3DS day one
BroggieDoge
Member
I think as of right now I am going 3DS. I will double dip and pick up on Wii U when there's a sale. Now I just hope other people pick it up on 3DS so I actually get streetpasses. Should have been $15 cross buy.
I have to say that the game is amazing, level design is very good and the secrets as someone said before me, are placed very well. Very reminiscent of old NES era platformers and of course the rage that comes with them when you stupidly fall in between a gap. Keeps making me smile and I have to make myself stop playing otherwise I'll loose all day to it. During development I was exchanging emails with on of the devs and my impression is that they are really humble guys who know what they are doing.
This game has been a pleasure to review, I am looking forward to their next game!
This game has been a pleasure to review, I am looking forward to their next game!
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
... What is the uhh, replay value of this game like? Are there extra modes? Score attack? Online level leaderboards or something? I'm already sold on this game, but I'm curious of its longevity.
There's a New Game +, as well as additional content to be implemented in future updates.
Flying Toaster
Member
Wicked OT. I am triple dipping on this. I cannot wait to play this on my 3ds.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
will this game have the Challenges mode out the box
No idea if it'll be in a day 1 patch, but I beat it yesterday and all that unlocked was ng+. The gender swap/playable boss/challenge stuff is probably coming down the line.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
pre-order cancelled
Trick question; there's no box, JC!
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
lol that's my favorite phrase of all time. It works in every scenario in life.
"What are we having for dinner tonight? Meatloaf? PRE-ORDER CANCELLED."
eudaemonic
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Man... the OT is actually up! So close! Going 3DS here. Not like I don't have 50000 other things in my play query at the moment though. Heh.
ScrewAttack is streaming Iron Man of Gaming mode.
According to the devs, it's accessed via one of the cheat codes.
According to the devs, it's accessed via one of the cheat codes.
I think this blog update is fairly important and should be added to the OP: Digger's Diary Detailed - as you can imagine, it goes into detail regarding the creative process behind the wii u's most prominent exclusive feature.
#verilyformiiverse
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