"Call Nana or Else" - PART 5 - Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
5She's not mad, she's just disappointed.
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Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Following a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in June 2014. The game was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017. Shovel Knight is inspired by gameplay and graphics of platformer games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game has received critical acclaim, won various awards and is considered one of the best and most significant independent games of all time. Following the release of additional campaigns, the original story received the retronym Shovel of Hope. The full game is referred to as Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, which includes two other campaigns: Plague of Shadows and Specter of Torment. A third campaign, King of Cards, and a multiplayer fighting game, Shovel Knight Showdown, are scheduled for release on April 9, 2019.
Prior to the events of Shovel of Hope, Specter Knight is sent to recruit knights to join the Enchantress's Order of No Quarter. As he recruits the knights, he experiences memories of his former life: Before dying, he was an adventurer named Donovan, who adventured alongside his partner, Luan. The two scale the Tower of Fate and find the amulet within, but they run into Shield Knight, who tries to stop them. In the skirmish, the floor beneath them collapses and they fall, killing Luan and leaving Donovan mortally wounded. Shield Knight, now corrupted into the Enchantress, offers to save Donovan in exchange for gathering eight knights for her. He agrees, and the Enchantress kills and resurrects him into the undead Specter Knight. She presents him with a locket, telling him that with each knight that joins the order, it will be imbued with power, with a fully powered locket capable of bringing him back to life.