Why Shovel Knight is Nostalgia Done Right 

It still disappoints me that Shovel Knight is a better Mega Man successor than the game that should've been a great Mega Man successor with all of the money it made from kickstarter.

Why is this on the Ign channel? I saw the exact same video a long time ago.

I dare say Shovel Knight is one of the best games I've ever played.

Shovel Knight is amazing. Definitely one of my favorite games to come out of 2014. I especially like the retro style and callbacks other classic games.

shovel knight is such a good game

Shovel Knight is definitely one of my favorite games of all time

Shovel Knight Is Not Good Bcuz it's Nostalgia to era where Devs can get away With Cheap Tactics and design, Shovel Knight is Good Bcuz it's Well crafted, nice looking Game by People who Actually want to make Art

Yes shield knight is a great character. Does it matter they are female? No. A good character is a good character. Progressive ideology leads to an affirmative action in forcing characters to be something to click the check box off on the diversity list. I would rather a company make a great character, that happens to be a minority or female, then a company that makes a token character. Shield knight sticks with the placement of the hero goes to save the girl but evolves it to make the girl not be a weak character. Samus worked because it was a great character that you identified with, oh and they happen to be female. A good character is a good character. A sloppy character that had to be *Blank* minority to make the diversity police happy just gives people leverage to say "all *blanks* and terrible in this form of media". Have the people represent the area and if you make a good character that doesn't fit the established people of the area then congratulations you made a good minority character.

"By making Shield Knight strong and capable." Have you played Spectre of Torment yet?

I didn't go into Shovel Knight thinking ""yeah nostalgia!!" it was just another game to me

never played this game...so i think im goin to get it for the switch...looks awesome

I mean, who cannot forget all those sprite scaling and rotations, pixel blending and truecolor color palettes in our old 8-bit games?!

Shovel Knight is a phenomenal game, I'm glad I played it. can't wait to get treasure trove for the switch.

This game is AMAZING, everyone should play it.

I grew up with an NES, It was the first video game console I ever owned. So many good games that I played as a kid and continued to play for years to come. But I can honestly say that Shovel Knight is a better game than every single NES game I've ever played besides probably Super Mario Bros 3.

Excellent video! Looking forward to more from Game Maker's Toolkit.

Shovel Knight is not an ounce of nostalgia. Its just a damn good game.

Hey, thanks for sharing this, IGN. I hadn't seen any Game Maker's Toolkit before.

Shovel Knight is better than Mega man, IMO.

What's a game at 2:50?

Once you notice this, you can’t unnotice it. All the characters use only 2 colours and black in their designs, alike the limitations of classic NES sprites. Of course there are shades of the colours but it’s a nice detail.

Did you get permission to re-upload this and are you giving Mark Brown the ad revenue from this?

Shovel Knight is one of my favorite games this gen.

To the point about being Progressive, I don't believe most gamers have a problem with "strong female characters" and we certainly don't have with old concepts being turned on their head (expectations being inverted). Nothing wrong with strong female characters, and nothing wrong with indicating that the main character's loved one is a partner and just a prize.

they missed pokemon mechanics XD NOT ENOUGH FOR ME XD

I find it cool that you are providing exposure to a content creator that really deserves it, but shouldn't this video have included an end-card that points people that want more of content like this to the appropriate channel? At least on the description you should point at Mark's channel, or at least write that this video was copied with permission.

Reminds me of wizards and warriors a little bit

This game is an absolute blast. No doubt about it, this is what retro gaming is all about.

Hadn't seen this video before. Awesome analysis. Can't wait for the Spectre Knight DLC. :)

I bought it on PS4, played it, loved it, and I'm buying it again on the switch. Is the switch going to have a physical version of this game?

D1 on the Switch!

One of the first games I played when I got a 3ds recently and I was instantly in love. Everyone should try this game.

"you lose your money when you die, and you have to make your way back to where you failed to reclaim your loot, a system ripped straight out of dark souls"... BOI DID YOU EVER HEAR OF THE WARIOLAND GAMES ON GAMEBOY???

I never played Shovel knight but looking at it it is the best retro esque game i have seen that try and do retro but IMOP fail like Broforce (id say more but they really don't grab mu attention for me even to remember them). I'm prepping to get Shovel knight for the switch because i feel its the cleanest looking game of this genre. No trying to do to do any thing fancy with 8/16 bit style graphics,

Shovel knight was a fantastic game. Period. Especially on 3DS, the controls and 3D made the game perfect.

And this was made BEFORE Specter of Torment and Body Swap dropped in to say hi. Body Swap doubling down on the progressiveness by letting you change the gender of ANY of the Knights, and even the Enchantress.

5:23 Dude check out more carefully the Sword Master . The parallax scrolling is beyond the NES limitations , they use some very clever trickery .

mark brown getting some love!

Playtonic should take note. I love Banjo Kazooie, but Yooka Laylee was a pandering cocktail of everything wrong with Rareware's old outings.

I found Mark Brown a few weeks ago with his Zelda dungeon series on Twilight Princess. He has some very interesting videos. I hope IGN asked to upload this one and not just took it to ride the Specter of Torment/Switch hype.

I want to play cuphead on Nintendo switch

I think IGN needs to make some sort of disclaimer opening or outro before blatantly uploading someone else's video without any edits. Seriously, it shouldn't matter if they have permission, there should be a huge disclaimer IN THE VIDEO, not just the description.

best game of 2014, shovel knight.

When I saw shovel knight in the Eshop I was like "WTF why a game like this is 20$?" and when I bought it I realised it deserve more than 20$...

Built by wayfowward? Bruh yacht club made it

Wanna play another beautiful retro game? Play "Mibibli's Quest", it's amazing! (and extremely hard >:O) I almost finished it :)

Cool vid, thanks for sharing IGN, and thanks for the PSVita that I won in the fall of 2011 at a Hollywood GameStop. 👍

They need to do more games like this in the future!

Ill admit it I tried to beat it couldn’t. I couldn’t beat VSing all the bosses.in the enchantress tower level 2 I used cheats to beat it But I finally went back. It took a long time but.... I beat all the bosses And then I got stuck at the enchantress But... I beat her to

Not kidding ive been on the fence on this game since its launch. I have a switch and both versions of the new 3ds, honestly gonna pick this up for my 3ds' now cuz of this great review.

it's not about nostalgia for me, It's just a great game. I didn't even think about those other old games while playing it, and i played and finished most of those that influenced this one.

I swore I saw this already lol.

this is just the feel good kind of video I needed to self-justify my purchasing of Shovel Knight 5, soon to be 6(Switch), times since it's release

i just buy the game last week and im almost cry because the game is soo good, the feels you get the game that exactly you really wanted long long time ago, this game remind me the old time playing castlevania simphony of the night mix of megaman and the other 2d side scroll game that almost hard to find today.

I did like the majority of the video except for the last part in which a lot of people and I find that particular game OK.

Great job Yacht Club! One of the best games I've ever played. If you haven't played this yet, you're missing out big time.

Eh. It's a fine game, but I'd play Tropical Freeze over Shovel Knight any day.

We will never get a shovel knight 2 but luckily we have dlc stuff

when black knight use his down attack is just look like meta knight attack in kirby super star ultra ... and his final battle to his wing k=like metaknight

Yep. This is exactly why Double Dragon 4 pisses me off as well as any new Kunio-Kun game.

Who is the voice actor for the doctor guy at about 8:15 he awfully sounds like the guy who voiced uncle Iroh in Avatar?

Decided to randomly purchase this game on the psn for the Vita and let me tell you.. Such such a great game!!!

im pretty sure yooka laylee devs played shovel knight since hes in the game lmao also mighty number 9 is just megaman because thats the point

OMG pls tell me what is the name of the game at 2:07 ? I remember playing it when I was little. Oh my god the nostalgia 😌😌😌

First good video on this channel I've seen in years, except it's not even made by IGN...

+IGN Does the owner of this video know of you uploading his video on your channel?

One of my favorite soundtracks in any game, rivaling FF6 and Ni No Kuni. The gameplay was pretty great too.

Yacht Club Games made shovel knight... you got the devs wrong.

I've plaid it before and never once thought it was a megaman inspired game.

4:34 What was this game called again? I used to play this!

I literally just got shovel knight on Christmas, it feels like it's suddenly come back with the treasure trove dlc

I love this game! Even more so in how it handles DLC right! SPECTER KNIGHT HYPE!

What your favorite song mines shovel of hope king knight and shovel of hope trouple kings dance song

I'm curious how a GMTK episode came to be on the IGN channel.

They ripped off getting gold back from where you die from Dark Souls??? How bout Diablo II?

Great video, now I know what game I DEFINITELY want to get on the Switch on launch day!

game looks great ! can't wait to play

They should dial the graphics and colors back and turn it into a Nes bootleg

Oh, the pain of the Clockwork Tower.

Shovel Knight is such a brilliant game in many more ways than 1

Am I the only that is absolutely getting sick of shovel knight?

This is a little off topic but can anyone tell what game is being shown at 2:08?

the checkpoint thing is actually pretty similar to warioland

Glad to see GMTK on IGN where it can get some of the exposure it deserves!

The nes American version of castlevania 3 sounded better

Ahh... The Pogojump😊

Oh yeah they took the resting sequences from golden axe too.

you forgot how the yellow dragon is like crocamire in metriod

if you can beat "berder herder" in the challenge mode, you are a true gamer. i've beat it 3 times now. brilliant amazingly simple design and one room stage that is so good. i love berder herder.

Wait this is a Mark video but on IGN? No that's not rights

Ha. figured it wasn't ign. This was too solid of a video.

Does anyone think that the 3ds version is the best one?

is this game even coming out on the switch, or is this just a mod ?

Why dose dr light sound like an alcoholic in mega man 8

This video is amazing! Made want to buy the game

Shovel Knight is my favorite game of the last 10 years.

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Is it wrong i love these old style games the most?

They copied a video seriously ign😤🤬🙄

Such a great video. I am not expecting something like this from you, IGN