Shovel Knight Will Have Four Playable Characters

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Apr 15, 2013 09:30 am

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Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games’ 8-bit action platformer, reached the end of its Kickstarter campaign this past weekend, with over $300,000 in contributions. The Kickstarter’s original goal was a mere $75,000.

Since Shovel Knight has hit every single one of its stretch goals, here are some of the major features that will be added to the game before its release:

New Game+ mode
Playable Boss Knight
A second playable Boss Knight
A third playable Boss Knight
Gender Swap mode
4 Player Battle mode
All Boss Knights playable in Battle mode
Challenge mode
A physical box
Linux/MAC versions in addition to PC/3DS/Wii U

Shovel Knight is scheduled for release this Fall on PC, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.