Even so, what’s here creates a certain amount of intrigue as you can’t help but wonder what awaits you at the bottom of the hole, and series fans will appreciate the many nods to other titles that take place later on in the Shovel Knight timeline. Obviously, the story isn’t much of a focus here, as this is a highly replayable roguelite platformer first and foremost. Their efforts to do so-and the enormous hole they’ve created-are creating problems for the people on the surface, so Shovel Knight and Shield Knight dive in to try to get to the bottom of what’s going on. Here, the main villain is a new character named Drill Knight, who has formed a group of knights called the Hexcavators to help him in raiding a treasure room buried somewhere deep within the earth. Shovel Knight Dig takes place sometime before the original Shovel Knight, so Shield Knight hasn’t disappeared yet and the Enchantress has yet to rise to power and form the Order of No Quarter. As you’d probably expect of this franchise by now, it’s an absolute blast to play developer Nitrome ( Bomb Chicken) delivers a tough, rewarding, and enjoyable new experience that series aficionados will want to dig into immediately. Now, we’re getting another roguelite in Shovel Knight Dig, only this time the gameplay is much more in line with the action-platforming of the original game. In December, we got the wonderful Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, which smartly blended falling block puzzle mechanics with roguelite game design. Especially when you have to restart the entire game every time that happens.Since the last 8-bit-style game came out, Shovel Knight has been branching out more into other genres as developer and publisher Yacht Club charts a course for where its eponymous nobleman will go next. The crash when you're fighting the shrine guardian isn't so bad because you can prevent it from occurring if you know how (don't kill him with an attack that would also kill you) but I've also had random crashes during the last level and that's just unacceptable. There are no story differences regardless of who you're playing as and because there's so little dialogue from the Knights, I didn't feel like I was unlocking new characters, just different abilities.įinally, the switch version has an annoying tendency to crash at the worst times. There are so few NPCs that you could count them on both hands and most of them only tell you tips on how to play. It's missing the trademark Shovel Knight charm. Also, Shovel Knights ability sucks to the point where Polar Knights ability is just an unambiguously better version of it. Having to ignore the things that are supposed to make each playthrough varied and fun in order to win is not good game design. I found that once I started ignoring half of the relics and only got the good ones, my win rate spiked dramatically. Only a couple levels have unique gimmicks and you barely notice them when you're playing. They're all almost entirely the same except different enemies.
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