I was more than willing to pay this game for myself, though it was gifted by a great friend.

This game is a master piece when it comes to character, level, mechanic design, easy to understand and control, yet it wields a infinite resource of challenging content.

The more the player goes through the game, the more they evolve, and they can see themselves shine more and more without any filters, you start learning all of the tiny simple, but vast mechanics within the game, from how each character individually players, the timing of each enemy and how you control the pacing of each stage, the intriguite boss fights where you can learn their pattern to out manevuer them, or utilise your fast rooster of items and utility to dispose of your enemies.

Each invididual campagin wields a story that seems simple at first, but then devolps into something more sentimental and complex, making you understand that each individual knight, wanderer wields a intressing backround to them, the relantionships between them, the drama, and so forth.

Shovel Knight is the simple, sturdy amazing experience that elevated this game from the start, with items that dont interfere with your platforming but help you greatly on combat, allowing you to bypass Shovel Knights limiations in attacking (Side sweeps, and Downward Thrusts, Pogo Jumping) To be able to interact with the entire games obstacles.

Specter knight is an amazing campaign, oppsite both in feel, hub world, and the characters you interact with, Specter knight as platforming that incages you much more, with the aerial dashes through enemies and obstacles, keeping yourself in the air, you become more active within the platforming than you were before, making you be mindfull of your current aerial position, if you are either below or above a target will determine where you dash off next, into a pit, or into a platform.
Having a bigger enphasis on item usage, specter knight as a arsenal complete different to of shovel knights, being more into a agressive style, changing the players location, the armors provide to Specter also are intressing, to the point where you´re able to combo a certain armor with another item to increase your survivability.

And Plague Knight was one of my personal favourites, having a much more RPG feeling to it, plague uses bombs that can be altered in everyway with four different slots that contain multiple side-upgrades that allow to combo, create synergies, and down right allow plague to bypass all limations according to how the player switches the gear around, Burst jumps are customizable aswell, which is what applies after you bomb jump (Holding attack until plague knight vibrates in color, sending im flying upward, or foward, and according to your memmetom and positioning) being so interactive to the point where the most intriguing and amazing mechanic is Plague Knight himself, but the story of him is also very intriguing and wasnt expected.

Overhall i suggest this game to anyone, it personally was here for a time where i had my hands tied in which games i could play due to computer issues.

Its amazing, fun, challenging, wields a lot of extra content and inspires you to 100%.

10/10