| Dr.Vita said: I am thinking about buying Shovel Knight. |
1. Awesome, Shovel Knight is a mix of some of the greatest games ever on Nintendo Systems. It´s something like Megaman + Ducktales + Castlevania + Super Mario Bros 3.
2. Yes it is, you go to towns, talk with people, increase you habilities, buy new stuff, etc .But outside the towns the game is an Action/platformer that reminds a lot to games like Megaman and Duck Tales, but with more exploration, more hidden secrets. The story is decent and the writing is very funny.
3. Kind of, everytime you die you lose a lot of money, the money stays flying around the place of your death and you have to recover it. If you die before, all money is lost, and you need the money to buy new abilities and stuff even in the middle of the levels, so you want to have always money just in case. It´s painfull when you lose it.
4. Yes, the game it´s difficult. But the learning curve is good, it starts being accessible and it gets very hard with time, but is not as fustrating as a souls game can be, you learn in a more pleasant way, but you die a lot.
5. It´s surprisingly long for an indie game, it depends on your skills but the game is around 8 hours. With all the extras and the completionist stuff is around 12 hours. And it´s highly replayable. Plus on PC there´s a great free dlc called Plague of Shadows where you take control of a different character, its very game changer and it has it´s own story and new stuff, it´s coming to consoles too, don´t know when. Also on Sony systems you have to find and defeat Kratos :P. It´s a long game for it´s price.
6. I would say yes.
It´s one of the best games of the last year imo. One of the best retro-indie games ever made, it doesn´t just make you feel nostalgic about those great games on the 16bit era, it feels as funny as all of those games, but it doesn´t feel old, at all.
