Board 8 > Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. What's your Favorite Campaign?

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Specter of Torment is my favorite one.
All of them are great in their own ways.

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Specter of Torment
Shovel of Hope
King of Cards
Plague of Shadows

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the first one since that's all I played

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Specter of Torment
King of Cards
Shovel of Hope
Plague of Shadows

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King > Specter > Shovel > Plague

King of Cards. It has absolutely zero character work that matters, but man does it flow well without making every level a total joke. It's an expansion on the Wario Land base that far exceeds its inspiration as an action platformer. And I'm a sucker for cards.

Specter of Torment has the best movement, but Specter Knight's just too damn powerful. Absolutely benefits from challenge stages. But he's a good boy.

Shovel of Hope's all-around solid, but I never found it particularly exceptional outside of a few auto-scroller setpieces and Propeller Knight's stage. It's very, very good, excellent soundtrack, but it's more a game of consistency than it is a game of highs. Plus it has the least forward momentum of any campaign and burst momentum options are just so good.

Plague of Shadows is really fun and experimental, but the way PK interacts with stages feels a lot more flexible due to the arcana variations. Level design feels a LOT less important due to that, and just potion spamming feels like a viable option way too often. Absolutely adorable story though, probably my favorite boy.

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I was originally having a hard time ranking King of Cards vs Shovel of Hope, but I started replaying the latter and the movement just doesnt feel as good.

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Only played the first atm

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Easily Plague. Really fun and cute story and PK controls so awesomely. It feels so much fun to play as him

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Plague is a bold statement of "This is what we can do with an expansion" but the controls and everything feel kind of rough for what you have to deal with. Having to customize projectiles on the fly doesn't mesh well with quick action gameplay. Spectre pulls a Megaman X and next-gens the whole thing, while also feeling natural. King Knight seems good so far, although the card game can be frustrating and stages without bosses feel anti-climactic when everything's been run on a Megaman model before that.

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