Shovel Knight was one of the major successes of 2014, scooping multiple Game of the Year awards (including our own) and achieving impressive sales on Wii U, 3DS and PC; it's also headed to PSN later this year. With the title having made such as impact with its retro-styled gameplay, it's naturally become part of the enthusiast and speedrunning scene, too.
As we highlighted this past weekend, the Awesome Games Done Quick event is well underway and raising plenty of money for charity. Our own Marcel van Duyn is in attendance, as when he's not tackling reviews on Nintendo Life he can often be found live-streaming on his CapnDrake Twitch channel, and has previously mastered games and dominated leaderboards in titles such as DuckTales: Remastered on Wii U. At AGDQ he's completed an impressive run of Shovel Knight on PC, clearing it in under 50 minutes. Even better, some of the Yacht Club Games team were on hand to provide commentary - the video is below.
Awesome Games Done Quick is doing a terrific job for charity - Marcel's nifty pink suit of armour was chosen through donations - and has plenty of speedruns left for the remainder of the week; you can follow all of the action over on the official Twitch channel.
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I was there to see most of his playthrough live, although I had no idea he was part of Nintendo Life, so that's an interesting little surprise.
Way to go, Drake! That's amazing!! I've just told a bunch of my Shovel-Knight-loving buds to watch this video. They're going to be speechless.
@YinYangYoshi He's been writing reviews on here for years
wow great skills of control.
Can't wait to watch this later!
Oh wow, I watched this run. Had no idea he was NL staff. Nice!
I'm about to put it on now to attempt some of his moves
Awesome job. Love that the devs were there.
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If I'm reading it right, he proves he could beat the world record even though he technically didn't
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I bet he did awesome! But I ain't got time to watch a video this long, sorry ;(
Loved playing this game though! I played it on my 3DS and very thoroughly enjoyed it.
Still Pro Gamers here at NL.
Amazing run Drake!
This is awesome. Was hoping for this run be posted. ^_^ I didn't watch all of it due to lack of time, but I enjoyed everything I did see, especially with the commentary. Well done!
@aaronsullivan I've got the world record, just didn't manage to improve it!
@Drake Nice. But you would have if you didn't save the knights, right?
That was fantastic. I can't believe how easy you made the snow boss look. That guy always gives me trouble.
@aaronsullivan Nah, I was about 30 seconds slower at the end so simply skipping the knights wouldn't have been enough.
@Drake Oh. Math is hard. Awesome run anyway and it just makes me love that game even more.
Anyone else wish they'd just start working on a new game rather than fulfill all their kickstarter promises? I do, and I helped kickstart it. lol.
Absolutely incredible display of skill, and you looked so cool throughout the whole run! Now, how many shirts didn't get taken from the event, so you can do a giveaway of them on here?
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