Aside from one boss, I beat all of them on my first try. When you connect with Specter Knight’s diagonal slash you can chain them for multiple attacks – I could often get 3 or 4 hits on bosses at a time. Shovel Knight was more restricted in his attack patterns so a lot of the fights required more skill, patience and timing. Traversing levels and killing foes with a diagonal slash was very satisfying, although this attack did make the boss fights a bit too easy. It makes Specter Knight a much more agile, faster and more fun character to play. However it was the ability to perform a diagonal mid-air dash attack that had the biggest impact on the game. There are some new control mechanics in the Specter Knight’s expansion – including the ability to run up walls and wall jump. By the end of the game, he had become my favourite character in the Shovel Knight series. The story unfolds through sepia coloured playable scenes in between stages and I really wanted to finish each stage to learn more about Specter Knight. I thought the story was excellent and made the original game’s story richer by filling in some of the gaps. During the game, you learn more about Specter Knight’s origins and how he became the undead servant of the Enchantress. This expansion is a prequel to the main game and follows Specter Knight as he takes on updated versions of the stages from the original game and faces off against the bosses from Shovel Knight to recruit them into the army of the evil Enchantress.
I wasn’t a fan of the Plague Knight expansion that was released last year (the jumping and attack just felt off to me) but I was excited to play Specter of Torment to learn more about the world that the developer Yacht Club Games has built and also to see how the Specter Knight’s move-set would change the game. It took me back to the days of playing 2D platformers on my NES but Shovel Knight incorporates modern mechanics and some very smart level design that sets it apart from other modern 2D platformers. I first played Shovel Knight on my PS Vita and I loved it.
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