Have you been missing twin stick shooter? Been itching for something like Geometry Wars? Well why not give Beat Hazard by Cold Beam Games a try. Shovel Knight is available right now on the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Steam. I'm kind of in love with this game right now, and look for a review soon. They also had Jake Kaufman and Manami Matsumae compose the soundtrack, which should excite you because Matsumae worked on Mega Man 1, 2 and 10 with Kaufman doing music for modern revivals like Contra 4. Shovel Knight features a colorful world and cast of characters, in game achievements, an upgradable Shovel Knight, and a metric ton of unlocks coming up as patches including alternate playable characters.

Gameplay falls somewhere between it being the lovechild of Mega Man and DuckTales, with really tight controls and combat. The pixelated art style is lovingly rendered to look like a classic NES game, but beware because the difficulty can be classic NES hard too. The titular Shovel Knight, is on a quest to free the land from the Enchantress and her Order of No Quarter and bring peace to the land. Comprised of former Wayforward Technologies employees, Shovel Knight was an enormously successful Kickstarter project that had the studio pull in $311,502 well ahead of its original $75,000 dollar budget. Shovel Knight, is a 2D platform adventure game from the folks at Yacht Club Games.

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