What makes it succeed whereas pixelshit games failed?

>>376533949
It's good.

The levels are the exact right length. The worlds all feed distinct and fun. The movement feels very solid, with almost no overtravel or floaty shit. The gayer jokes, like the Troupple Dance and shit, are very sparse and don't get in your face.

And the music is 10/10.

It's not "pixelshit" but just "pixel", which is rare. We're so used to different sized, rotating pixels with gradient shading and a non-pixel UI or something.

>>376533949
You think Cave Story, Risk of Rain, Odallus, Owlboy, Noitu Love 2 and La Mulana failed?

>>376534836
La Mulana and Risk of Rain are shit, and Cave Story is over a decade old.

>>376534836
Owlboy was mediocre at best.

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>>376533949
they actually know how to make pixel art

instead of doing shit like pic related where the characters are just a stick of colored pixeld and all the background is photoshop shit

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>>376533949
It was a game with fun characters and a minimum of talking tumors like pic related

>>376535095
what the fuck is that

>>376534836
Noitu Love 2 was fine.

Nothing. Shovel Knight is pixelshit too. The only difference between it and most pixelshit games is that it had competent artists.

The game is still awful.

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>>376535442
Can you imagine being this contrarian?

>>376534489
>he doesn't think the troupple dance is one of the best parts

>>376534945
Glad I'm not the only one that doesn't really care for Risk of Rain, it's tedious to play at higher difficulties because everything has a bajillion hp and if you use the artifacts to mess with their health it messes the balance up something fierce.

Good art, good gameplay and a cute romance story.

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>>376535095
>lightsaber is not pixelated like everything else
This kind of shit will never fail to piss me off, such laziness

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>>376535217
I looked up this person's DA. They don't seem as entitled or obnoxious as /v/ made them out to be. Is there actual snippets of the OC creator being a dick or is it all memeshit?

>>376533949
Generally good level design. Not perfect but they actually understand for the most part what made old platformers good, not just hard for the sake of it.

It also uses all it's mechanics well, none of it feels like just a gimmick and the new things it adds to the mega man formula are all done well.

Doesn't take itself seriously but isn't constantly really on the nose about it

Lots of little details

>>376533949
game of the year

>>376533949
They were consistent with gameplay, artstyle and writing, used intuitive level design, and-
>>376536408 Well, you took the words out of my mouth. Skills you learn in earlier levels actually stay important. It's the difference of Mario and Sonic.

>>376533949
It's mediocre.

>>376533949
Didn't the devs of shovel night talk about how they engineered their game as close as possible to work some older 16?bit system, down to even using only a select color pallete?

>>376537505
They took creative liberties with the pallete to make the game look better

>>376537505
Colour palate yes outside of Polar Knight's fur

Everything else I doubt it

>>376537505
Yeah they stuck to the NES colour palette with about three exceptions regarding purple and yellow or something.

>>376533949
Are we using commercial success or quality as our metric?

>>376533949
Game has fuckton of charm

>>376534945
Those games aren't shit, and what is your point when concerning Cave Story?

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Shovel Knight takes inspiration from multiple older games instead of trying to be "the new x" or "the spiritual succesor to y". It takes a Megaman x Ninja Gaiden x Duck Tales with SMB3's structure, Megaman's bosses, Zelda 2's cities and charming, funny dialogue that doesn't rely on pop culture or memes to work.

It also breaks the limitation of NES games but without feeling too alien or without making it look like garbage like >>376535095, it's like it's designed to look like a NES game through rose-tinted glasses

Level design and tight gameplay also help. Great boss battles and a death system that isn't "3 deaths means game over" makes it challenging but not frustrating

Basically a lot of really good decisions

>>376538348
>Those games aren't shit
But they are anon.

Because the artstyle was chosen intentionally to emulate late NES-era sidescrollers.

Most pixelshit games are pixelshit out of laziness.

>>376535069
Owlboy was great just needed to be twice as long

>people dissing the game are just saying "it's shit" with no arguments
>not a single negqtive post goes into detail as to why they dislike the game
why does /v/ attract so many contrarian kids desperate for attention?

>>376534836
>Owlboy
It is shit

>>376538649
No?

>>376533949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhX5GtWNr8

This video sums it up very well

>>376538931
No, Yes.

>>376539030
I think that is not true

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>>376536204
http://seizui.wikidot.com/reize-seatlan

>>376539775
I should try and get him to commission from me.
I need money

>>376538592
It doesn't feel the need to shovel in the same "lol NES references" (I AM ERROR, Mega Man 2 opening, Ninja Turtles dam level) every other game seems to have in spades, either.

it's fun.
the devs have been supporting it long term.
the art is good; not pixelshit.

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>>376539775
>Girls (they are icky)

>>376539005
>published 2016
This sounds exactly like the review given by SBh in 2014.

>>376539775
there's nothing wrong this, really. he is paying people to do something he tells them about in great detail beforehand.

>>376539775

>keep expecting the part where he has a hidden twisted fucking psychopath side
>he's unironically just a heroic adventurer kid

It's pretty charming to see so much devotion put into such an innocent character.

>>376533949
>good checkpoints
>great music
>likeable characters and enemies
>doesn't take itself too seriously, but does just enough
>gradual progression

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>>376539775
I feel better about myself knowing that this retard is a thing and no matter how hard I fuck up I will never be this much of a mongoloid.

>>376542016
Your image of choice says otherwise

>>376542016
>I will never be this much of a mongoloid.
Too late for that
You post on /v/

>>376539775
He's just autistic

>>376533949
They actually followed up on the extra content they promised instead of taking the money and running at launch.

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>>376533949
Move aside for also good Knight game

>>376537723
I beleive they stuck to the sound format, but they used the advanced NES sound card only castlevania in Japan had and they also don't make the audio channels drop to do sound effects.

>>376545748
crossover when?

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>>376539005
>that part where he said its more progressive because muh stronk wmyn
Are the devs SJWs?
I wanted to buy this if it went on sale, not if they're a bunch of faggots though

It's a good game, and it does look pretty despite the game going for that NES like aesthetic, whereas many indie games look worse than NES titles.

Retro should not be an excuse to look like shit, but I do realize some indie games look like that because it's a one man operation and he doesn't have talent in spritemaking, or small indies don't have any talent in that area as well.

>>376545748
have they released the update where you play as the gurl

>>376536408
>Doesn't take itself seriously but isn't constantly really on the nose about it
Found this to be really important. A lot of these indie types are too eager to tell these poignant stories with big ideas and big themes, marred by also wanting to be absurdist goofball romps. Basically every faggot cartoonist that gets described as "CalArts" regardless of whether they studied at CalArts. Shovel Knight never goes too far in either direction, it's silly, but earnest, sweet, and most importantly, simple. Feels weird to praise a game like Shovel Knight for its storytelling.

>>376533949
the "pixels" aren't just a visual aesthetic meme, they exist to harken back the actual days of NES gaming.
probably.

>>376547442
>he's such an insecure faggot that he thinks he can't enjoy media because the developers have dissenting political views
Special snowflake detected

>>376548842
he doesn't want to give money to his enemies