King Knight was always a bad guy, but since this is a prequel, this takes place right as King Knight conquered the throne. "In the Halls of the King" is the song that played before/right when King Knight conquered the kingdom, and "In the Halls of the Usurper" is the song that plays after.

Fun fact: I had no idea you could watch Treasure Knight do taxes in his own stage.

"king knights theme is happier because this is before he was a bad guy" yeah..... about that

SNOMAN, YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THERE'S A CHEAT CODE THAT MAKES THE WALL JUMP BEHAVE LIKE MEGA MAN X'S WALL JUMP INSTEAD THAT'S HOW NEXT LEVEL THIS CAMPAIGN IS

“Later this year” Yeah, no... King of Cards isn’t out yet

Not only does it retain the charm and polish of the previous two campaigns, but the story is much bolder in its decisions, really bringing out the hard emotions. No joke, I almost teared up at the final scene in the game.

You hardly used curios? Specter Knight's curios are so friggin' strong man!

2017: King Knight later this year 2019: where the F is King Knight?!?

That battle with Baz was just amazing. On a side note, I just find it really impressive how they incorporated the kickstarter bonus contribution characters into the story as well as they did.

I honestly like SPector of Torment more than the main game. I just really like the new movement and progressions through levels. I also feel that the level design is a lot better this time around, cutting back on gimics and again having that great movement to make the gimics more bearable. Lastly, although the bosses are much easier I find them much more fun and the fencer boss in the graveyard, although easy was one of the most fun bosses I've ever fought. I just wish I liked the actual level more.

“It feels extremely satisfying pulling off a tough section perfectly” *misses jump*

Breath of the wild had sheild surfing, Spector of Torment has sythe surfing

Movement options? Advanced techniques? High skill? Fast pace? What is this, Melee?

3:20 Did they... that's a challenge level! They can hide secrets in challenge levels?!

i absolutely LOVED specter, it was one of the most fun experiences ive ever had with a video game. i really need to go back and finish NG+ and the challenges though.

I absolutely ADORE Specter of Torment, and thank you for bringing up "In the Halls of the King!" I mentioned in my LP that it's actually one of my favorite music changes in SoT because it's just so damn clever!

Who is watching in 2019 and laughing at the fact he said the king knight dlc would be out later in 2017 when will still don’t have it in 2019

"King Knight's campaign is coming out this year" If only he knew...

I love how you still had a stubble while advertising dollar shave club xD But you kick ass, man!

Yachtclub really is an amazing developer, seeing so many projects with similar scope and budget crash and burn, this game just seems more like a miracle every day.

I am very surprised that you did not mention how this game explained ridiculously small details. Specter of Torment even explains ridiculously small details. Like in the ending sequence the flying swords were still being built, (in Tinker Knight's level), explaining why they were not being built, and how we don't see the ships in Propeller Knight's stage because he sent them out in the ending sequence. And how we don't have King Knight's battle in Specter of Torment in the other campaigns, because he turned the entire castle into gold. And there is so much more! Am I the only one who was noticing these tiny details.

Ahh, you can't help but love what Yacht Club Games have done for us with this game - it's the gift that keeps on giving!! My personal favourite little touch is how they decided since Shovel Knight breaks blocks by digging _down_ with his shovel, they made Spectre Knight break items by jumping _up_ off them - a really nice symmetry with some really interesting consequences to some of the platforming challenges

But I just beat it an hour ago

Excellent work as usual, dude! You hit the nail on the head: Yacht Club is doing amazing work. It'd just be nice if consumers and other aspiring indy devs alike would recognize that this game (considering the entirety of Shovel Knight and its expansions), while certainly taking inspiration from classic games, is successful because it is brilliantly designed in its own right. So many indy games bank on nostalgia and call it a day. Something about the way Plague Knight plays clicked with me just a bit more than Specter (though it was much harder to learn), so I have a slight preference for the alchemist, but I have no complaints about Specter, and eagerly await the arrival of the King!

I wish Yacht Club Studios would finish up the trilogy and release King Knight's campaign already, i'm already hyped up as fuck from playing through Specter Knight's and Plague Knight's campaigns.

That beginning was such a contrast

Only free if you bought Shovel Knight before the Treasure Trove thing.

I love this campaign. It's absolutely breathtaking that it takes place in the same world, but plays completely different.

Ngl I like Specter of Torment more than normal Shovel Knight, the abilities used for fast and difficult gameplay, the new boss phases, and the incredible story with an ending that ties in with the main one, it’s incredible.

if only I don't suck at platformers man, if only.

Specter of Torment literally redesign every stages and redesign some of the bosses entirely. Such a great masterpiece!

Easily the best campaign of the three: the story was tragic but hopeful, the soundtrack has improved versions of the previous OST and the gameplay is the most fun and fast of the three; and I feel bad because I did not even had to pay for it.

Can’t wait for you to talk about king knight, DECEMBERRRRRR!

"later this year" he says

Fun fact: if you get all the red skulls you can play as younger Spector Knight with the caltrops.

Shovel Knight and Steve are the icons of the indie game community.

I like the Isaac snowman at the end.

*The Black Knight fight is actually a reference for TMNT Shells in Time, when u face two bosses who have this exact same pattern, the turtle was pretty op*

Can't wait for King's Knight campaign, and hopefully Shovel Man sometime in the future. They released a poll a while ago asking what people wanted them to make next and "A Megaman" like game was one of the options. They also proposed a Mario Kart like game, which i think would kick ass, but for now a Megaman spiritual successor sounds great. Plus, Yacht Club showed they're really good at platformers and level design.

I agree on everything in this video... BUT This game lacks 2 things I would have loved to see return from the first 2 games: All the boss battles: because this game doesn't have Shovel Knight in it (he could have been in a flashback at least), Baz is just a bunch of text boxes (and we still don't know who gave him lightning power) and the hat merchant too... although I care less about him... I guess they could have brought back the villages and the art gallery as well... especially since the second-one is haunted! The boss rush! Because that was one of the most satisfying part of both Shovel Knight and Plague of Shadows: beating the crap out of the whole game's cast in one go. That said, I really like how every stage brought at least 2 new gimmicks to the table, the tower race mini-game, everything about the controls, the new game + (I'm surprised you didn't talk about it! It's a really well thought concept that makes for an interesting playthrough in which going faster leaves you with more Will/Darkness to finish the level).

I’ve never noticed it was your scythe you were riding on. Yacht Club games is amazing.

Nice video, now I'm waiting for your "You Need To Play...HOLLOW KNIGHT"!

As someone who just beat it and loved every second of it, you *need* to play Specter of Torment

My favoritw campaign right here. The cycles line up in a way that lets you miraculously glide through stages.

I played the Specter Knight DLC before playing the Shovel Knight campaign.

I love how it the original game, you think something happened when Baz was rejected from the Order, but it pans out more like: "I wanna join you!" "no" "oh."

I also like the way they handled "hard mode." They combined you life and magic meters (I forgot what they are called in game) and made it slowly deplete. This way you truly feel like a grim reaper harvesting the souls of the enemies you kill to stay alive. It also makes the magic abilities mush more risk reward.

3:20 Waaaaaaaaaaait a minute, that's a thing??? I... I keep on discovering new stuff with this game! That's just awesome! I need to find this room for myself now!

man I agree with you. in Plague of shadows, they use same platform they used for Shovel knight. so using Plague knight's ability on Shovel knight's stages is like using PS2 disc on Xbox1. and also in Spector of torment. it's shows that how stuff is changing from good to bad and worse. So this game is deserve more respect from the gamers, and also the Boss fights are rearrenged as better system. and Stages too in Spector of Torment. because it's his game. so they make it look more like his game.

Curios are probably one of my favorite things in the game. They’re so unique and fun to use.

Beat it a few days back. Expected this vid to come. You ever thought of speedrunning this game? There is a lot of cool tech.

I beat it today. I thought I was done. Until I saw the cool things you were doing in this video

I really do need to play it, unfortunately I bought Shovel Knight for 3DS in the UK, which means it arrives June 1st and is therefore a whole 3 months after it's release on the Nintendo Switch

I'd love to play this! If only the game was out for 3ds in europe...

*The health and magic upgrades are only purchased if you miss them in the levels you played

But does he dance tho?

About that wall jumping mechanic - I had a real hard time getting that you need to hold key towards the wall to jump in opposite dirrection. It was realy stressful especially at the last climb in the tower challenge. After some intense platforming shit (like do or die, mofo!) the last part was just climb jumping from wall to wall and my brain was so stressed that it didnt get any sense from the climing mechanic that I almost died at the very end of that challenge.

I’m planning to get Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, but I want to get it on switch and I don’t have a switch yet. Waiting for this great game

well i beated a normal run,Specter X run,Specter X plus run,Naked (No Health or Darkness upgrades) Specter Knight run. The Naked Specter Knight run i broadcasted to the end to recently. harrdddd as nails.

When I played through the game i didn't know about then different outfits so I played through the whole game with the original outfit...

Neat! The bomb-jumping for Plague Knight admittedly turned me off, but this sounds much more engaging... though I figure I should tackle both eventually.

"Yacht Club Games are the best developers of all time" That seriously explains EVERYTHING... Maybe it wouldn't have been that great as a full review to someone who didn't play the game but it is literally for some after that And I really loved the story... enchantess is now on my numbah one of my most hated character list (Why are there only female characters on that?) And I will probably begin with speedrunning on this game as the Gameplay feels perfectly fluid to me and it fits in everything for me what you said in your tipps for befinning to speedrun And this game really has a sad story and I can still like every character (Not including the enchantress) in it althought they choose to follow the enchantress espiacially as I know they got kinda forced to do it and I am really hoping for something more about Polar Knight as he just seems like he is the one who would follow the enchantress the least And Yacht Club Games showed again they can make a story in that short of a game which is just as full as a whole 2 hour movie... yet not a book that can't be done

also cann we just talk about how FUCKING GOOD lich yard sounds in this game

When I sliced that giant cannonball in half, I was like daaaamn.

Yes. Yes you should buy Specter of Torment. Whenever a game's story makes me cry, it becomes the game of the year to me. I rarely cry. When something makes me cry you know it's good.

The music is stuck in my head!! I really liked spectre knight and collecting the red skulls vs money like shovel knight. I still need to play the plague knight. I wish I woulda known about being able to skate with the scy I didnt even know and beat it already! Im curious to know what game they are working on next, hopefully its a little more dark! That ninja game looks awesome too!

I watched this game a few years ago on game grumps and it's my favourite game the lore of Specter knight is just so good

Just finished it! It was amazing.

Anybody else prefer Spectre of Torment to the main game? I love the original but I love the edginess of Spectre Knight

Yacht Club is tied with Team Cherry for my favorite game developers

Each character in shovel night have very unique moves.

About King Knight's campaign coming out later that year...

I loved this DLC there was a lot of wow moments in it for me. However the reason why I prefer plague of shadows (haven't decided if I enjoy shovel of hope more) over this one is how plague of shadows made u play the same levels but in different ways. Of course the same levels a third time through may get stale but like in Plague of Shadows there was little special areas just for Plague knight. A good compromise between old and new was to have the levels with both of those parts in it. For example in King Knights stage the first part of the stage was like the other campaigns but once I got to the magic book section instead of summoning platforms there would be a ladder that would lead to a new part of the level

This game is awesome ! I bought it on Switch at launch but put it down after 2 levels because Zelda came in. I came back to this game 2 days ago and at the Final Boss now. Awesome game with awesome music ! Awesome bosses as well! That Ice Viking fight was hard for me but I did beat that boss. Now im at the very end boss. This game is so cool!😁

Wow, his movements look amazing. Will definitely check it out!

Why you should play Spectre of Torment -the final boss -the music -the rail mail -the rail mail -the music

"King Knight is the last campaign" Now I guess I will be forever bothered by the fact that we don't get Tinker Knight mech levels...

Wow Snoman, great moves keep it up, proud of you.

Oh I would... As soon as it releases on the European 3DS... Wich should be any seconds now... Aaaaaaaaaany seconds now...

I just love messing with that gold-armor by switching his colors, for filling his dream of being a engineer then takeing it away >:D

it looks so good... i need to play it all again.

I finally finished this campaign. I absolutely LOVE it. The storytelling is AMAZING.

Specter Knight is RADICAL BODACIOUS DUDE

I'm a simple Knight. I see Specter of Torment, I sub. Alright, Spit it out, who stole my phase locket?

The grey specter knight costume reminds me of the cleavers from skulduggery Pleasant if anyone has read that.

ok now we wait.... FOR KING KNIGHT

Should i play the other shovel knights as well?

Thank you for waiting to do this video

It's also cool that the 3ds and vita version is updsted as well

as videogame dunkey said: "In life you have 2 choices, you either play Shovel Knight or *die* "

Already played it. Fucking fantastic, loved the mobility.

0:00 me after finally playing shovel knight and beating it, moving onto plague knight

*later this year* Meanwhile in december of 2019

2:33 shows him buying a darkness wisp. me: uhhh you know you don't have to buy those right?

I do NEED to play this game. ... Nintendo also needs to get its shit together and just release the 3DS update in the EU already.

2:47 - Got that reference.

I would dream big and overjoyed if the developer yacht club were making a megaman game as their next project, though I wouldnt get my hopes up sadly.

Spectre was the first dlc I played after I beat it I wanted to 100% it and so I did believe in yourself you can 100% the game by adopting the game style

ahh i remember my first time playing shovel knight

Ah yes, saw the game updating, started the campaing, and finished it in one sitting. Got around 2 hours of sleep that night, but dang, its mighty impressive. In the olden days, this would´ve been pretty much a full on sequel/spin-off, certainly reasonable to adjust the way the game is sold with this still increasing amount of content.