I really tried liking this game, but I just couldn't get into it. At first glance, the aesthetics look fantastic and the opening level which is basically a tutorial it fun enough, but as soon as you start doing quests, I lost enjoyment for the game.
While I understand that people like hard games, the developers could have handled the difficult better. Solo is just unbalanced, and please don't say "just play co-op", no! There is a single player mode in the game and I mostly enjoysingle player games. I l enjoy hard games as much as the next person, but when enemies are just bullet sponges, it saps all the fun.
Some other user mentioned Megaman. Megaman is widely accepted as a good game because it comes from an era on how games were back then and a certain type of generation still like that kind of challenge, no checkpoints and not saving when you like. Then comes a game like Shovel Knight and shows how a megaman inspired game can work in modern gaming. There's also the time limit to complete missions. So basically you have limited time, no check points and enemies are sponges. A really bad combination.
This game hard for the sake of being hard. I hope they release some patches to at least balance out single player mode. I tried all 4 characters and probably enjoyed playing with the ninja-type character the most as he is pretty good at combing and getting CRIT hits, But I only put in a limited amount of time in before it became tedious.
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I really tried liking this game, but I just couldn't get into it. At first glance, the aesthetics look fantastic and the opening level which is basically a tutorial it fun enough, but as soon as you start doing quests, I lost enjoyment for the game.
While I understand that people like hard games, the developers could have handled the difficult better. Solo is just unbalanced, and please don't say "just play co-op", no! There is a single player mode in the game and I mostly enjoysingle player games. I l enjoy hard games as much as the next person, but when enemies are just bullet sponges, it saps all the fun.
Some other user mentioned Megaman. Megaman is widely accepted as a good game because it comes from an era on how games were back then and a certain type of generation still like that kind of challenge, no checkpoints and not saving when you like. Then comes a game like Shovel Knight and shows how a megaman inspired game can work in modern gaming. There's also the time limit to complete missions. So basically you have limited time, no check points and enemies are sponges. A really bad combination.
This game hard for the sake of being hard. I hope they release some patches to at least balance out single player mode. I tried all 4 characters and probably enjoyed playing with the ninja-type character the most as he is pretty good at combing and getting CRIT hits, But I only put in a limited amount of time in before it became tedious.