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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 46.4 hrs on record (16.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Apr, 2017 @ 8:16am

Shovel Knight.
Initially, there was a single campaign, now named Shovel of Hope.
Then came Plague of Shadows, allowing you to play an alternate story from the viewpoint of one of the game's bosses, with completely rewritten story, dialogue, and even some entirely new stage segments alongside the game poking fun at itself (the powerful Relics you'd find as Shovel Knight? Useless trinkets you trade away to the very merchant you buy these from in Shovel of Hope.)
Then came Specter of Torment, upgrading all owners of Shovel Knight to Treasure Trove including all three campaigns, local co-op, and - which I believe is a nice touch, as the lack of female combatants in the Order of No Quarter personally somewhat bugged me - a gender swapping mod, allowing you to pick a gender for each character.
Female Shovel Knight except that everyone assumes (and talk to her as if) she is male because of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ helmet you never see come off? Sure. Body: Female, Text: Male. Done.
And now we're getting yet another campaign for King Knight, co-op for the other campaigns, a four-player battle mode - all for free!

And those who don't have it can buy Treasure Trove for 23 bucks. I mean come on, think of mainstream games like Call of Duty or something - 60, 70, 80 bucks for maybe 10 hours of gameplay?

I don't see why Yacht Club Games wouldn't be one of my favorite developers out there.
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Ashley 19 Apr, 2017 @ 4:33pm 
This is the review that would get me to buy the game, if I had the cash lying around.
Arriator 8 Apr, 2017 @ 1:24pm 
...what? My point was originally the fact that "females can be badass bosses and battlers too" but, uh, sure, you do you.
Scholastic Gun Fair 7 Apr, 2017 @ 6:38pm 
Who cares if there aren't females?

seriously. if some men made it about men, what's the problem? How could that possibly detract from your enoyment of the game?

Above tallying marks based on gender, is ignoring it completely.

sorry to jump in, but what a bother. I'm the most left-leaning, bleeding heart hippy in the world, but that's almost offensive in it's vapididity.

"Story would have been better with more vaginas." ---you

Think about how someone who fully believes in equality and wants to see everyone of every group make stories for their self and others would say "Oh, God, shut up complaints like this over some males making a story about males have drowned out actual issues and forced people to pay less and less attention to groups that issue such complaints, damaging the world when the complaints are more than dribble."

Stop. Go back in time and stop.