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More Shovel Knight in Store for 2016

Yacht Club Games will be digging deeper in 2016 to complete the Shovel Knight experience.

Shovel Knight has proven immensely popular with fans, on Nintendo platforms in particular, bringing a tight, retro platformer experience into a tricky market. The game even got an amiibo last year, as well as an expansion pack, Plague of Shadows.

Going forward, the team want to "completely finish Shovel Knight" this year, Gameplay Programmer Ian Flood told NintendoLife this week. There's a help of content in the works - the stretch goals - including the Specter Knight campaign, King Knight campaign, Battle mode on consoles and Gender Swap.

Have you tried out Shovel Knight yet?

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Luna Eriksson 03.01.2016#1

No, I haven't yet actually. Been too busy with other things. It certainly is on my "to play list" that is starting to become extremely long again.

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Anema86 05.01.2016#2

I haven't yet either. I've thought about it a few times, but I got so tired of hearing about it when it first released that I refused to touch it. The same thing happened with Minecraft and Super Meat Boy, both of which I love but didn't get around to playing until well after their peaks. Indie games in particular tend to get way over-hyped because their fans are more dedicated, but in my experience there are far more Flappy Birds in that area than Minecrafts. More "neat ideas that are kinda fun" than things that are truly genre-defining or genre-creating as the hardcore fans tend to claim. I'm not saying it's unworthy of its reviews--just that there's no way to distinguish the claims that Shovelknight receives of "THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVAR1111!!!1one!!" from Candy Crush and Flappy Bird when people said the same thing about them. Is it a Flappy Bird or a Minecraft? I have no idea, and probably won't until long after everyone else has lost interest in it. Lol

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Luna Eriksson 05.01.2016#3

Completely agree with you... <_<' It IS very difficult to tell the difference between the Minecrafts and the Flappy Birds of this world as it feels like both will be equally praised by some people... Heck, I have friends like this who talks about every single game they play (no exceptions, EVER) as if it was something of extreme quality and magnitude to gaming like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Pokémon Red/Blue... Yeah, I get it... You liked that new game you got, and you clearly got like zero taste... As the game was (insert horrible game of choice here).

Therefore I have friends who I know I can trust with these things that only recommend things that are either sincerely good or in any other way interesting and arguments about why they think that who I take advice from from time to time and whose words I put heavier weight onto. Those are worth gold! Smilie More so than the living hype-machines who can never accept that they might have bought a bad game...

( Edited 05.01.2016 12:15 by Andre Eriksson )