Shovel Knight is without a doubt one of the best indie games ever created.

User Rating: 10 | Shovel Knight 3DS

On late November of last year, I got my hands on Shovel Knight for the Nintendo 3DS. I first knew about the game watching a Let's Play of it by BDCool213 in the summer holidays. The main plot of Shovel Knight goes like this: Shovel Knight has the love of his life kidnapped by the Enchantress (who kinda looks like Maleficent) and her henchmen. It's up to Shovel Knight to put an end to the Enchantress.

The gameplay of this game is mostly inspired by NES games like the Mega Man games, Super Mario Bros. 3 and DuckTales. There are lots of collectibles available for the player, including music sheets, gold and various power-ups. The levels are set in the style of a Mega Man game, where you go through the level and at the end you face a boss. Shovel Knight has two attacks: The standard attack and a pogo stick like attack used by Scrooge McDuck and Cranky Kong from DuckTales and DKC: Tropical Freeze. There are various customization options that the player can buy within the Town like Health upgrades, Magic upgrades and different types of armor. The music and the visuals are all styled as a NES game and it looks amazing! There is also an achievement system where you can get achievements for doing certain things. The only downside to this is that it is heavily lacking in content.

There aren't many indie titles that I know or even like but Shovel Knight is DEFINITELY one of the exceptions. From the epic soundtrack to the awesome boss fights as well as great gameplay screams the work of a great indie title. Yacht Club Games did a fantastic job when making Shovel Knight and I put this game as one of the best indie titles on the 3DS! This game is also available on Wii U, PC and Mac as well as a PlayStation Network release for this year.

Here is the link to BD's Shovel Knight LP playlist if you wanna check it out! (Seriously, this guy is a great content creator and you would enjoy his videos and livestreams!) Shovel Knight playlist