Game:

Shovel Knight (2014)

Duration: 1:05:18

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HEY! READ THIS! Obvious spoilers if you haven't beaten the game yet. Timeskips to each section in the description below.

This is a speed run of the first DLC pack for Shovel Knight--Plague of Shadows. I haven't made it to sub-60 minutes yet, but I'm getting there. Had a few dumb stage deaths, but such is the nature of Plague Knight. I initially had this marked as Low%, but it looks like the speedrunning community is erring toward counting Low% as having no coins collected (1%), so I've marked this as Any%.

I'm playing the Steam version, using a SNES controller hooked up via USB running AntiMicro to translate the button presses to keyboard input. As such, I don't have access to the two-attack-button exploit (although I hear that's being patched soon anyway). I still need to do better with some of these bosses (screw Propeller Knight) and minimize the stage deaths, but I'm pretty happy with this run. And if you're wondering why Plague Knight goes invisible when getting hit, it's because YouTube won't render a 480p video at 60 fps.

Milestones:
0:00:15 Plains
0:02:23 Black Knight 1
0:03:18 Village (initial visit)
0:04:03 Pridemoor Keep
0:06:01 King Knight
0:07:06 The Lich Yard
0:09:16 Specter Knight
0:11:03 Explodatorium
0:14:02 Shovel Knight
0:16:38 Lost City
0:19:04 Mole Knight
0:20:14 Iron Whale
0:23:52 Treasure Knight
0:25:22 Stranded Ship
0:28:52 Polar Knight
0:30:04 Black Knight 2
0:31:04 Clockwork Tower
0:34:27 Tinker Knight
0:36:10 Flying Machine (and two of the most shameful stage deaths in this run)
0:41:37 Propeller Knight
0:44:25 Tower of Fate: Entrance (and the actual most shameful stage death in this run)
0:47:06 Black Knight 3
0:48:26 Tower of Fate: Ascent
0:51:01 Boss Rush
0:58:00 Tower of Fate: ????
0:59:20 The Enchantress
1:01:27 Plague of Shadows
1:02:10 Corrupted Essence
1:04:00 Digging Log

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