Shovel Knight and Nailing Nostalgia | Game Maker's Toolkit

One particularly good example of a "nostalgic" modern game is A Hat in Time. I remember first hearing the title screen music and, even though I never played the game before in my life, felt nostalgia. I think a lot of it came from playing Super Mario Galaxy as a kid.

This game gonna takes me back to the past

The messenger is the most nostalgic game I’ve found. It definitely needs more attention because everyone I’ve talked to only found it because it was free on epic games for a week

Love your chanel mate ; thanks for your hard work !

The colours look way too stale to me, if you know what I mean.

Yes, Shovel Knight really progresses society. A very smart thing to say.

4:06 I FELT That HARD

Good artist copy but great arts steal, shovel knight is a steal.

Imo the corpse running mechanic really doesnt combine well with a platforming game. Oh you fell into a bottomless pit? Sorry, I guess thats it for your 5000 gold.

Shovel Knight has terrible character proportions though. NES devs ( for the most part ) were good at giving characters proper proportions. And it's literally why I'll never play the game. I like the NPCs designs better than the Knight or King characters. And if I don't like the character, I can't play the game. I do respect the level design, checkpoint feature and card game though. Those were nice touches.

I love listening to you're vids while developing my game.

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You must wecover all the energy immediately uhh stares at hand wegaman

The messenger

8:06 cracked me up! There's no way that voice acting is real

Coming back to this all these years later I think it was this video that convinced me to get Shovel Knight in the first place. at first I only wanted it so that I could see all these neat little references in action. But now, after all these years, and after completing all the campaigns I realized that this game is a whole lot more than just a bunch of references to older games. Yacht Club made this game their own and it definitely shows. So thank you, Yacht Club, for making this game. and thank you, GMT, for making this video because without it I probably would’ve never got to experience this masterpiece of a game.

You always make such a wonderfully thoughtful videos, thank you

Was I the only one that was reminded of Ghosts 'n' Goblins?

Mighty No. 9 is the original creator of Mega Man and he was basically recreating it cause he lots the rights to Mega Man

I really liked how within the story of Shovel Knight it would have been totally possible that Shovel Knight was the one taken by the amulet and Shield Knight would have saved him. As far as the story is concerned it was a complete coincidence that Shield Knight ended up needing help. And since it was established that they were partners and that Shovel Knight missed Shield Knight I constantly felt like I was never at 100% strength, that Shovel Knight's full potential could only be reached in cooperation with Shield Knight – that he needed her. The final fight supported that feeling.

It's very sad that we live in a world where you have to apologise before praising a game for being progressive

Was that Megaman voice acting for real?

Well the game is actually 3d but with 2d sprites

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"it makes you feel like a new game and not realize that you play a modren game"
But I'm on pc

4:30 only morons have problems with progressive thinking, what people don't like is forced wokness down our throats. SK had nothing to do with that, you mentioned shield knight as an example but what I loved most was enchantress. Now that's badass female character right there!

8:06 WHAT I AM FIGHTING FOR?!

Maybe it's because I didn't play so much with the NES and more with the SNES but it always looked and felt like a 16 bit game to me rather than an 8 bit one. With just how fluid and fast everything is. What I associate with 8 bit games the most is being slow and stiff. Demanding a very high amount of patience and emotional control. It's far more so about remaining calm in stressful moments and being exceptionally accurate than having fast reflexes and quick whits. In a 16 bit game you need to let your brain turn off and get in sync with the game. While with 8 bit game you need to keep your thinking cap on since instincts will get you killed.

Shovel knight plays very fluidly and allows you to be very acrobatic. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Shovel Knight but for me it looks and feels like a 16 bit game through and through. Not to mention in the visuals it's incredibly obvious it's not 8 bit with how fluid, vibrant and detailed it is.

you must recover all the energy immediately w megaman

A bit late but wth I'll say it anyway, Shovel Knight is to nostalgia gaming what The Princess Bride is to storytelling.

A thing that Shovel Knight got wrong is that the pressure and strategy to beat a boss limits to "bouncing off top of boss", as you would do with a big Goomba. Even the Kirby mini bosses would get a free hit if spamming attacks too close.

But seriously,
FUCK CLOCKWORK TOWER

4:01 HOVER MEANIE

4:50 Ahh, so THAT’S what happened to the secret training spot!

I dont think that going back to where you died could be said to be "ripped out of dark souls". For one, it's more or less a mechanic, rather than a stylistic decision. And also i can remember at least Diablo having the mechanic all those years ago. Im not sure that it's the very first instance of said mechanic, but it well predates dark souls. Not to say "err you got it wrong stupid", but just as an fyi cause it came straight to mind when you said that :p

4:03 Fuck that part of that level I died there so many times

What nostalgia? I'm too young to have played those games when they came out and I still can recognize that they were harder and cooler back then. These graphics *helped you use your imagination*, it's an awesome concept!!

when i looked at the thumbnail i thought it was about brawlhalla

Oh yeah, I do remember Diablo 2 ripping the 'go back to reclaim your loot' system straight from Dark Souls.