Shovel Knight: NES vs. Game

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAng...Knight.php

This is an interesting article from a little while ago about this new, and quite good by all accounts, NES-style platformer for PC/3DS/WiiU. I'd say that thanks to all these changes, the game is definitely not a NES game. Something like Mega Man 9 was a much more authentic NES game than this one is -- as they detail in the article, in Shovel Knight they added in parallax scrolling (no, the excuse in the article is not valid, what you see in the game could never have been done on a NES), upped the resolution to 16:9 widescreen, added several more colors because they thought the NES color palette was too restrictive, and got rid of all sprite flicker and sprites-per-line restrictions, most notably. No way is that resulting game really a NES game; the developer writing this article is definitely stretching when he claims that these changes still leave this as basically a NES game. It's in the NES style for sure, and is close to a NES game... but thanks to those changes, it's not something that could be done on a real NES. Still though, what it looks like it is is a quite good game! Anyone have it yet?

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm okay with that. It's more of an artistic style, they never claimed they'd limit themselves only to what an NES can do. Mayyyybe Master System... :D

Even Yatzee has given his blessing on this game. These days, "indie" 8-bit style games are a dime a dozen, so I've got to be a little more refined in which ones I pick, but I'd say this one seems worth the look.

[Dark Jaguar]

[video=youtube_share;ktCH_zpEMN4]http://youtu.be/ktCH_zpEMN4[/video]

[A Black Falcon]

So yeah, you're making a NES-style game, but why do you ahve to make the story so stereotyped too? "Rescue the girl and defeat the evil queen"... ugh. I know that's probably the only real complaint about the game, but it is one, I think... good song there though.

[Dark Jaguar]

They deconstruct it though. Shield Knight's a knight! Also, Shield Knight helps you in late game stages after the rescue, showing exactly why they make such an awesome team. If you're going to do this sort of story, that's the way to do it.

Also, their genders are left a bit ambiguous, the above video notwithstanding.

[A Black Falcon]

That sounds better than some, then, but I still dislike that plot in general.