Shovel Knight has made his fair share of cameo appearances, but this latest one has to be his most left-field.
The legendary warrior will be joining the cast of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 thanks to some amiibo-scanning magic. Scan in the NFC-enabled figure and you'll be able to face off against him in a one-on-one battle.
To make the collaboration even cooler, the Shovel Knight sprite has been designed by none other than Masaya Suzuki, whose past work includes the Breath of Fire series and Mega Man Zero.
Shovel Knight creator Yacht Club Games is publishing Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 in the west. Are you excited? Let us know with a comment.
[source yachtclubgames.com]
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I dig (pun intended) that 16-bit style Shovel Knight sprite. Hopefully we'll see something similar in a Shovel Knight sequel!
Neat
the sequel to Shovel Knight should be called Super Shovel Knight and have SNES style. That would be ideal.
(and then the third one would be Shovel Knight 64 with low poly graphics. and it'd be a collectathon)
That's cool! Now I want a Gunvolt amiibo!
I didn't even need more reasons to get this game, but now? Must have.
Yacht Club Games are so amazing. ;w; I never got to play Azure Striker Gunvolt, but if it's anything like Megaman Zero, I'm totally up for it! Shovel Knight is icing on the cake!
Yep. I absolutely need this game now.
Now I'm in hope for a Inti Creates collaboration in the next Shovel game!
Digging Intensifies
Sees video... Gawks for some 30 sec... Orders Shovel Knight amiibo from Amazon.. Big grin.
Awesome! Was not expecting to get more use out of my Shovel Knight amiibo.
This may be the first glimpe of the Shovel Knight SNES-kind-of-game Yacht Club said they want to eventually release.
I remember they said somewhere, a time ago, that they would love to make Shovel Knight evolve just like every famous franchise did back in the day. Have a SNES game, a Shovel Knight 64, and so on.
Personally, I think that would be amazing, since SK is probably the most charismatic character to grace us games since I don't know when.
Awesome! Still need to play the first one..
This game will be amazing, I can hardly wait.
@EarthboundBenjy
"the sequel to Shovel Knight should be called Super Shovel Knight and have SNES style. That would be ideal.
(and then the third one would be Shovel Knight 64 with low poly graphics. and it'd be a collectathon)"
Yes, please, yes!!!
Cool
Just from this clip alone it shows how nintendo-hard he's going to be. Lord have mercy on my soul.
That is amazing. I'm glad I have a Shovel Knight amiibo!
Whoa! I'm glad their finding more uses for the Shovel Knight amiibo so it can actually be what amiibos were advertised to be: used across many games. (Not that 2 is many but I'm sure they'll add more uses)
Frankly, at this point I'm fed up with seeing Shovel Knight bloody everywhere. The fact I didn't find the associated game all that much special doesn't help.
So cool.
Looks very neat, this will be perfect since I got my Shovel Knight amiibo last month so it'll have another use.
What? Interesting and compelling amiibo functionality? I can dig it.
And yes, a Gunvolt amiibo would be sublime.
Shovel Knight you are going down man lol definitely looking forward too the Gunvolt game pack coming out.
I was not expecting this. I really enjoyed Azure Striker Gunvolt. I got my Mega Man fix by playing it. The sequel is a must have and the Shovel Knight amiibo is the icing on top.
Cool, but sadly Amiibo locked!
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