Glen-i

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment is the second DLC package for Shovel Knight. It's a side scrolling platform game and came out for the Switch back in March and a number of other platforms a month later. I played the 3DS version (Dat second screen functionality!) The story is set before Shovel of Hope and Plague of Shadows and follows Specter Knight, one of the many bosses you fight in the original game. He is tasked to recruit other Knights to the Order of No Quarter. Because this is a prequel, there's naturally some foregone conclusions in play, but if you've played Shovel of Hope, there's quite a few cool explanations for characters you already know of. Especially Specter Knight himself, as the plot focuses on how he got himself in this situation to begin with. The plot is great! But after Plague of Shadows, I'm not too surprised. There's some really nice story arcs going on here. Gameplay plays like Shovel of Hope, which is a lot like Mega Man, where you try to get to the end of a stage and defeat the boss there using a variety of abilities. If you haven't played Shovel of Hope, go fix that if you like platformers, the rest of this synopsis is going to assume you know something about how Shovel Knight plays. There are two major differences in Specter of Torment when compared to Shovel of Hope. Wall climbing and the Dash Slash. These two moves form the base of Specter Knight's mobility options and the levels have been heavily redesigned to incorporate them. They're relatively easy to learn, especially compared to Plague Knight and it's a lot of fun moving around in this game thanks to it's tight, responsive controls, not to mention the great level design. Yacht Club games really do know how to make great levels, with lots of secrets to find and treasure to discover. On top of the basic maneuvers, there's a whole bunch of optional curios to get which widen Specter Knight's capabilities, whether it be projectiles, healing, traversal techniques or a particular late game hilariously broken technique. It's solid and continues along the consistent greatness of Yacht Club's little Kickstarter project. The visuals also share this high-quality. The sprite work is great and vibrant, helping to give characters loads of life. The Music is solid as well, with remixes of loads of Shovel Knight music as well as some original tracks. I highly recommend this game, but only if you've played Shovel of Hope, a lot of nice details will go over your head if you don't play it first, and it's a great game in the first place. It sits between the other two campaigns in terms of difficulty, making it a great middle ground game to play. Roll on, King Knight's campaign!

The Metroid fanbase make me a bit embarrassed to be a Metroid fan, to be honest. The Federation Force bile throwing was incredibly overblown. It was nothing more than a okay spin-off and they were going around declaring the death of the Metroid series. Utterly dumb. Other M is also loads of fun. The story's stupid, but I've replayed the damn thing 4 times. Game's a gameplay riot from start to finish. Best Ridley Boss fight too, especially on Hard mode. Nicked that move from Smash Bros Brawl, yet still cool as hell.

Shine Thief is absolutely mental with 11 people. Loved every second of it! Here are the results, @The Mole I hope you don't mind @Ugh first aid jumping in at the last minute. She wanted to bring some gender equality to the equation by pelting everyone she could. Sticking it to the man? Maybe... Anyway, DCubed is me, UFA is @Ugh first aid, FalconBLK is @King_V and Player is Emerald Emblem's Brother. GP1 (Told you someone was Cat Peach, he corrected himself after, so I guess we're cool.) GP2 GP3 Glen-i - 43 Emerl's Bro - 37 Emerl - 36 UFA - 34 FalconBLK - 33 Simon - 29 Londragon - 29 The Mole - 27 Punio - 23 Sam - 21 Clownferet - 19

Whoever is Cat Peach needs to change. She has different stats than Peach.

Press the left face button in between races to change vehicle.

I'm starting to think I've become @BowserBasher's alarm with the amount of times I've joined his Global Race only to have him leave and open up the league room. I'm his personal "Stop having fun and do your responsibility" guy.

Yep, it works. Ta very much!

So I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but every time I try to compose a new Private Message, I get a pop-up telling me my Inbox is full. This happens even if there's only 1 message in there. I have to delete everything before I can write something new. That seems like a bug, unless I'm overlooking something here?

I know I'm being "That weirdo" again. But I just want to point out that I actually played Metroid Prime 2 1st. Nothing to do with your interesting conversation, but just throwing that there. So, 2 1st, 3 2nd, 1 3rd.

A Battle Mode introduced in Double Dash. A Shine is placed somewhere in the arena and everyone tries to drive into it. The person who nabs it then has to leg it and keep the Shine safe for a certain amount of time. (I think it's 30 seconds) If that dude gets hit, they drop the Shine. The person holding the Shine also loses a considerable amount of speed, so it's difficult to outrun anyone. When the match time runs out, the person who held the Shine the longest wins, the match also ends if someone manages to hold the Shine for a total of 30 seconds. It's worth noting that if you drop the Shine, your timer doesn't reset. So if you hold the Shine for 12 seconds, then drop it, next time you get the Shine, you only have to hold it for 18 seconds.

Wii U's voice chat options are suddenly a lot more appealing, huh? Hilarious.

I certainly do, because that's exactly why I tried Awakening after not enjoying Sacred Stones that much.

Oh yeah, I'd take any Metroid game over FE any day. I love me some Metroid! I'm afraid trading will have to wait until Thursday night though. Sorry about that.

Methinks you're assuming everyone uses the same theme as you. Not everything is about you, you know?

So that's the next confusing Kingdom Hearts side story on Switch then? If ever there was a time to dangle the Smash Bros. guest character bargaining carrot, it'd be now.

Yeaaahhh, it's nice to be optimistic, huh? Metroid wishes it was even half as popular as the likes of Pokemon or even Fire Emblem. (10 years ago, I would have been laughed off the internet for suggesting FE would be bigger than Metroid) Now I've made myself sad...

Yeah, the steelbook ain't worth the extra 18 quid for me. Like I said before, it's not as nice as the OR one.

But I'm fourth! What does it say about me that I'm chuffed I got mentioned in a drunken post? Now I feel like a proper N-Europer!

Yeah, sure. People chose the Ice Cream side because they like Ice Cream. I've seen enough Splatoon fanatics around to know exactly why people choose the way they did.

OI! I may have looked the other way when you nicked my Birthday, but I'll be damned if I let you take my Mario Kart points! I have priorities!

Us Europeans can now get a Shiny Tapu Koko through Mystery Gift. Make sure you select the "Via Internet" option. Also worth noting that it's guaranteed to have a Timid nature, so don't bother resetting for anything else. It's Lv 60 and is holding an Electric Seed.

Sorry for the lateness, here's the scores. Once again, DCubed is actually me. GP1 GP2 Glen-i - 38 The Mole - 33 Simon - 26 Punio - 21 martinist - 19 Daz190uk - 18 Sméagol - 16 WelshGamer - 10 Sam - 9 GP3

200cc never fails to be hilarious and volatile. I have to eat dinner now, so results will be a bit delayed. That said, @The Mole you wouldn't happen to have the results screen of the 2nd GP? I have the actual scores snapped, but forgot to do so for the results screen. Oh, and @Sméagol, would you like your first GP score discounted, seeing as you joined halfway through

@S.C.G where you at, dawg? EDIT: Oh, of course you show up the moment I post. You did that on purpose!