[trumpets blaring in the background] HEAR YE, HEAR YE BY ROYAL DECREE THIS BOARD IS NOW PROPERTY OF HIS UTMOST HIGHNESS, KING KNIGHT. There will be no more console wars or debates about who's king of the shit pile, because the only king is King Knight.
Also, gacha shit is outlawed. Now get back to doing whatever you peasants do.
This King Knight beat the interdimensional queen of cards FF6 style. He deserves literally anything he can get his hands on at that point
Daniel Flores
Reminder that Queen Knight is a delicious brown bratty woman child with a praise kink
Grayson Carter
King Knight was a goddamned fool. He had literally everything going for him sans the support, and if his mom married King Pridemoor he'd be an actual royal prince and in direct line for the throne. Instead he was told by the villain that his campaign was a sham and made up and was told "I can make you an actual king if you betray your allies". What reason did he have to believe the same hag who just set him up the entire game with a fake inheritance contest?
Nicholas Parker
his "allies" hid behind a rock when he needed them most
Bentley Peterson
So? Cope, triggered snowflake.
Leo Garcia
>his whole worst campaign of the entire Treasure Trove Sounds like someone got filtered by Joustus.
Hudson Clark
>optional option that's optional and hidden behind an options menu that has no bearing on the game >WAAAAAAAAAAH seethe, cope, dilate, and perhaps, dare I say it? i'm just gonna say it - have sex.
Jason Martin
His allies were hardly able-bodied enough to help him fight a goddamn otherworldly abomination. For someone who wanted to be a king so badly, you'd think he would have relished the chance to show off just how capable he was, because in his mind that'd make him even more royal.
I think it's nice that, for once, we play as a total dickwad instead of a tragic anti-hero who's "misunderstood". Spectre Knight and Plague Knight felt like the same rehashed story of "oh I only did bad things because of my circumstances, boo hooo :((((((". Meanwhile, King Knight's like "fuck all ya'll, I'm the king and you're all peasants."
Colton Watson
I wouldn't say Plague and Specter were misunderstood. Plague is still a maniac who blows up his own minions on the regular and still did lots of terrible shit that he didn't exactly apologize for, it just turns out that he was even more self-centered than the rest of the Order and didn't give a single shit about what all of them or the Enchantress were doing beyond wanting their essences so he could score with Mona. Specter did bad things because of the circumstances, but he made those circumstances himself because he was a greedy thief cutthroat asshole who killed his best bud, and 100% ended up liking his role as a scythe-wielding reaper (at least partly) judging by how he acts in the other campaigns.
You're right about King, though. 0 INT, 10 CHA, 10 LUCK, and the charisma isn't even just an informed trait, you play the whole game watching him be a fucking dick to everybody and ignoring every good bit of advice he's told and still end up rooting for him right up until the final boss and you remember that he's the bad guy.
ALL HAIL KING KNIGHT! TRUE LIEGE TO THE THRONE OF NEETDOM! ALL HAIL THE COMFY KING!
Jason Gutierrez
It's also great how expressive they made someone without a face just through animations and occasionally bending the slats in the helmet a bit. Shovel has almost the exact same helmet but because he's the boring straight line hero guy they didn't get to have any fun.
I really liked how his ability or best characteristic is vigor and vitality, aka retard strengt, he was working all his muscles while his mom's food was like a strength elixir
>room is filled with weights, built like an absolute brick shithouse >based attack is just running into shit >can be followed up by rolling into shit or running into more shit >completely incapable of understanding basic concepts and fights every joustus judge because he's a retard >cares about exactly two things, being a king (doesn't matter what kind of king, just being a king) and his mother (which means she was probably at fault for letting him do this shit to start with) >goes into a literal tard-rage when cornered >still the best player character in the game
>Make games go on extreme sale >Everyone buys up their games cause they're inexpensive as hell >Hundreds of thousands of sales >Meaning hundreds of thousands of dollars
Adrian Rogers
>Jump in the airplane cockpit >He spins the wheel
Lincoln Sullivan
I just about pissed myself laughing when I saw that. It really feels like after three games ranging from 'bland' to 'manlet' to 'edgy,' they really wanted to have as much fun with King's animations and set pieces as they could. I'm pretty sure they explicitly called him a manchild at some point either in a Twitter reply or a stream, which is fucking hilarious. People are still clamoring for a redemption arc in a future entry, and I think that kind of misses the point of King Knight, that being even after being forced to scrub the floors and losing contact with his mom, he's so goddamn stupid and absorbed in himself that he's learned literally nothing.
>your favorite knight will not only never have their own campaign, but is only playable in a shitty smash-like abomination and a shitty puzzle game
Evan Lopez
>cares about his mother i honestly don't know about this one given the ending
Aaron Hernandez
It's up in the air, really. Was he actually okay with losing the first/last person who supported him, and fully embracing his new life as the decadent dandy, or was he trying way too hard to convince himself that yes, this is what he really wanted all along, even as he calls for his Mom from the cold of an empty, eye-searingly gold throne room, sitting wrapped up in the cape that she stitched for him?
>shovel knight is a fish >plague knight is a bird >specter and king are ???
Robert Hughes
>>plague knight is a bird huh?
Ayden Price
well he never takes the bird mask off but he's got tiny little bird legs and he flaps his arms like a bird
Matthew Edwards
i'd like to believe the second but honestly i can't recall too many instances of king knight caring about his mom - his interactions with her are almost entirely her doting on him and him bitching about it
in fact the only time he seems to give a damn is when king pridemoor is pulling a fast one on her
Jack Miller
I agree but I think he probably shouldn't have been the last, Specter probably would have fit better Shovel Knight entering the throne room at the end was kino as fuck though
That robot ninja game looks cool. Now that they're also publishing they could do some nice stuff. I want to see the devs do more than shovel knight and pull out some new IPs.