Digging Up Early Gameplay Features And Screens!



The highly anticipated eshop title Shovel Knight developed by Yacht Club Games releases next Thursday on both the Wii U and 3DS eshops! There's no denying the quality that this game possesses and for those of you who are looking forward to Shovel Knights release we've got a nice surprise for you as we will preview a part of the first level of the game in this article!



The first part of the tutorial level starts off easy to allow you to learn the basics such as digging up treasure and defeating sporadic enemies and as you can see in the screens above the visuals are breathtaking for an 8-bit title! Very quickly the starting level gets alot more intricate forcing you to use the downward strike and destroy earth blocks to obtain extra gold!



The third part of the level forces you to use downward strikes on objects such as bubles which can allow you to reach ledges that are normally unreachable and if you look carefully you'll be able to spot weak spots in the ground that often yield gold and other secrets! You'll also face off against your first sub-boss of the game "shown below".



You will then traverse through several rooms blocked by secret passages and alot of earth blocks before reaching the second checkpoint! A word to the wise don't attack the checkpoint or bad things will happen. That's all for our preview of the first half of level one, be sure to checkout our review of Shovel Knight when it goes live on June 26th! Are you looking forward to this amazing title? Let us know in our comments below!