Fuck yeah! Finally a release date! Woo! Insta-buy! ;)

@DrFinkelstein

Isn't the expansion free if you already own it?

EDIT: I'm dumb. Disregard.

@TheOldManFromZelda

Seems like you picked up my joke but yeah, that free-factor was why it was an insta-buy for me. lol

@nate38

Awesome!

Who else is playing Plague of Shadows right now?

So far, a couple of levels in, I'm very impressed with the amount of work they have put into making this expansion, and how different it feels from the base game. Not quite feeling the new controls though; I like the fact that they feel new and that I need to master all new types of skills to succeed, but the controls feel kind of slippery in a bad way now, IMO. This is not to say it controls poorly overall, but compared to Shovel Knight's Mega Man quality tightness it's a bit iffy.

Oh, that's right! It's out. I'll have to put Mario Maker down for awhile and try it later...

I had to do this to play as Plague Knight. I think it was because I never did New Game + or something.

I've been digging this new update. Lots of fun! Controlling Plague Knight is tricky, though. I'm not used to the character's jump/bomb jump yet.

Plague of Shadows is absolutely wonderful. I think Shovel Knight might be my favorite game of this generation.

Wow I'm loving Plague Knight so much. His mobility options as you learn new abilities are just wonderful and so fun to use

Plague Knight is interesting. A lot of fun to control.

@ludist210

It took me a while before it clicked even though I enjoyed it a lot before then. Ability spoilers: But you basically get a wall jump and Screw Attack later... and can create platforms out of thin air or upper cut that gains air too. It's so, so good when you start mixing all of these together. I can traverse entire screens so damn fast

@VofEscaflowne

Oooo fun! I only finished the intro area and messed around town, so I still have a ways to go.

Well, I just finished the second group of stages, so I'm about halfway through. I forgot just how much extra stuff there is to do outside of the actual stages.

I'm not totally sure about the bomb mixing and matching. It's a cool concept, but I'm not finding a lot of the bomb combinations all that useful, at least compared to the standard Bounce Case + Black Powder + Normal Fuse. The only changes I make regularly are the Lob Case or the Long Fuse. But it's nice to have options, and it's possible I'm just missing some great for, say, the Boomerang Case.

But yeah, Plague Knight is way more fun to control than Shovel Knight. And Shovel Knight was already pretty fun. I totally would have paid for this DLC. Would have been nice to get it within a year of the game's launch, but it's hard to complain about such a great, free update.

And I'm finished with Plague of Shadows! Beat the game, collected all the Coins. The little ending vignette of Specter Knight makes me think his campaign will be the next one that Yacht Club finishes.

I even did all of Plague Knight's Challenge Mode setups, and I'm glad I did because each of the boss fights gives you a different bomb, bomb-jump, and arcana setup. And some of them taught me some very useful combinations that I probably wouldn't have thought of on my own. I'll probably be doing Shovel Knight's challenges this week, too.


So yeah, great update. Hopefully, now that the game's been ported to every platform, it won't take a year-plus to get the next one, because they still have a handful of promised stretch goals from the KS campaign that they need to fulfill: Specter Knight campaign, King Knight campaign, Gender-swap mode, and a 4-player Battle Mode featuring every boss.

@nate38

Congrats on beating the Plague of Shadows! Nice work.

I haven't finished it yet. Got caught up in Epic Center's Chrono Trigger play-through, as well as the The Legend of Legacy demo and my own self-indulgence of playing through Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow again. And Super Smash Bros. online.

Too many games to play. What horrible first-world problems I have...!

But yeah, I need to get this done. Glad you liked it! How much time would you say you put into Plague Knight's campaign?

@GameDadGrant Took me about 6-7 hours to finish it, and another couple hours to get all the coins and do all the challenges.

Well that was confusing, I thought this was something you had to get into the eShop to download, couldn't find it anywhere, loaded up the game, it did an auto-update but I still couldn't find it anywhere...

So I put in the secret code.

I have no idea WHY I had to though. Definitely beat the main game.

@Zero

I, too, beat the main game and still had to put the code in. Oh well.

I suppose most people who beat the game but are still playing it also know about the update and have probably heard about the "secret" code to bypass the normal way to unlock it...

But maybe not. Weird glitch that might keep some from even knowing there is new content.