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Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:46 pm
by CavZee
jay_red wrote:I beat it last week with a little over 7 hours clocked. I honestly can't think of anything I did not like about the game. The difficulty at the end was high, but never unfair. I jumped right into new game + as soon as I beat it, and that is pretty rare for me.
I'm seriously thinking about another playthrough myself. I usually wait a year or so before I replay something but...I just might have to keep playing this game. XD
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:07 pm
by Xeogred
ZeroAX wrote:Xeogred wrote:10 sequels please.
Enough with the Megaman comparisons
I'd play them all and love them all!
Except 7. Megaman 7... X7... it's destined to be bad.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:30 am
by flex wood
So I just finished it up a moment ago. Great game! I think I might try to get all the achievements in this one.
So you know how when you beat a boss in SMB 3 and the wand fell from the sky? I wasn't the only one that always tried to catch it before it hit the ground by the way they have shield knight falling it seems like the same thing. I really liked that touch and always brought a smile to my face.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:49 am
by Gunstar Green
flex wood wrote:So I just finished it up a moment ago. Great game! I think I might try to get all the achievements in this one.
So you know how when you beat a boss in SMB 3 and the wand fell from the sky? I wasn't the only one that always tried to catch it before it hit the ground by the way they have shield knight falling it seems like the same thing. I really liked that touch and always brought a smile to my face.
I didn't see it that way, but now that you mention it, maybe. There are loads of little touches like that from so many popular NES games. The Duck Tales pogo, the Kirby's Adventure-style wall explosions, the SMB3/Bionic Commando world map with traveling enemies, the Castlevania relics, the Mega Man just about everything and probably a thousand other things I'm forgetting or missed.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:42 pm
by Xeogred
Zelda II towns...
They may as well called it NES Knight Man or something. lol, perfection.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:10 am
by Gamerforlife
I think I'm getting tired of the fifty thousand retro throwback 2d platform games clogging up every digital download gaming service. I finished the first two levels of Shovel Knight and I'm already bored. I've seen everything this game does before
This retro craze, wish people would do something NEW with these old formulas instead of just recycling them over and over again.
This is why I haven't played anything over the past month, just feel like it's always the same old thing whenever I play something
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:11 am
by Gunstar Green
Gamerforlife wrote:I think I'm getting tired of the fifty thousand retro throwback 2d platform games clogging up every digital download gaming service.
I partially feel that way too and was ultra-cynical about Shovel Knight but I ended up really enjoying it.
To me it did do something new by combining a lot of older things. From a design standpoint everything is rock solid.
If there's one thing I'm totally sick of it's these "brutally had" one-hit-kill platformers with lots of beginner's traps and gotcha' moments and tiny levels/checkpoints that all have retro graphics. Enough of those already. Stop pretending that's what retro games were actually like, developers.
But you know, I also look at games like
Dust: An Elysium Tail and
Muramasa: The Demon Blade which sort of have the graphics I imagined video games would eventually have when I was a kid. I do feel like 2D games can and should evolve beyond the retro-mindset. Pixel-art has its place but the 2D art and animation we're capable of today can speak for itself.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:41 am
by Xeogred
Gamerforlife wrote:[USER WAS INSTANTLY BANNED]
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:36 am
by ZeroAX
Apparently it did pretty well
http://yachtclubgames.com/2014/08/sales-one-month/
I am disappointed to see gog sales so low
. I bought it as a gift from that site and I think we should really be more supporting of their no-DRM philosophy.
In other news, GET IT OUT ON THE EU 3DS shop already so I can buy a copy for myself too.
Re: Shovel Knight
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:12 am
by Gunstar Green
Shovel Knight is a love letter to 8-bit era Nintendo, so it just feels right playing it on a Nintendo platform.