Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows allows you to finally play as fan-favourite Plague Knight with his own hugely unique mechanics, but in order to unlock this character you're forced to play through the entire game as Shovel Knight. Many players will have already achieved this but many may have not; luckily there's another way you can get your gaming mitts on this alchemical archetype.
Watch the video below which explains just how you can play as Plague Knight right from the title screen. There's no trick to it, it's just a simple trick!
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Cheeky Steel Panther quote at the start!
Feels like you should've included this information with the original article.
Beat the game.
That's the easy way. It's a 3-word strategy. Can't do it? Get good, games is not hard, at least not normal mode.
I got to the next to last stage, and kept dying. This is saying that it took me over an hour to beat the stage before that. Sadly, my reaction timing is not as good as it used to be when I was a teenager, so this 'cheat' code is a great thing in my opinion. Will I use it? Probably not. Sure that level leaves me yelling and screaming like a sailor but I'm still going to try and beat the main game to get at the new stuff the old fashion way.
I didn't find the game to be very hard....not after the 1st few levels anyway. The power ups almost make the game too easy.
Nice for people just getting the game though if you want to play through both characters at the same time.
Plague Knight has upped the difficulty for me. I struggle controlling his jumps
What's harder, Shovel Knight or Megaman 3?
@XCWarrior Agreed. Just clear Shovel Knight. Unlock the add on the old fashioned way.
@Gerbwmu His jumping is difficult to get used to. The slow fall relic helps alot though.
If you couldn't beat the game with Shovel Knight, I wouldn't bother. Plague Knight is much harder and not as.. fun. Beat the game first at least once before you venture forward.
I beat the game but the new campaign wasn't popping up for me. No idea why. Anyway, so, I ended up using this "cheat". The new stuff is ok. Not as intuitive or fun as the original Shovel Knight, but still a very cool free bonus.
"There's no trick to it, it's just a simple trick!"
So it is a trick then... 😉
At the very least, I can see this being a good way to unlock the mode if you ever get a second copy of the game. But if you can't beat Shovel Knight, your not going to have a good time with Plague Knight.
I must be the only person who finds Plague Knight easier to control.
I beat SK pretty much the week after the EU release, played the extra difficult new game+ until it became too much, and haven't played since. When Plague came out, it was unlocked right away as I'd got past the main game with Shovel but I've completely forgotten how to play the game. I struggled to get past even the first screen!
I thought Plague of Shadows hard to control. It is hard to predict where your projectile will land. In addition, it is difficult to control where you will land after your jump too.
I'm kind of laughing out loud over entering a cheat code having a Guide video for it, heh.
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