[TAS] Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows any% in
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2025
- Frame count: 127437
Re-record count: 26652
Done on the linux DRM-free version (3.3) using my own-made TAS tools (github.com/cle....
The fastest way to move horizontally is by chaining ground bursts and double jumps. Bursting too frequently is slower as bursts have a 3-frames freeze.
Big Boom upgrade was taken for an extra 25 seconds, but it saved time in the whole run, because of the possibility to break blocks without slowing down and faster bosses. Also, throwing a big boom at the beginning of a burst or a jump changes the trajectory by falling down faster.
In almost every boss, you can get closer to the boss that the game expects by making a burst at the start of the boss room. For most bosses, you can do an input on one frame after the transition to the boss. Also, for all bosses, you can make a burst just before hitting the transition, and your inertia will be kept in the boss room.
In Plains (01:29) is the only zip of the game, by triggering the transition above the screen. It is also possible by Shovel Knight using the bubbles.
In the end of King Knight fight (07:29), I delay the last attack until the boss is on the ground because the fight ending triggers when the boss body lands.
In Explodatorium (08:02), I managed to get hit to get less than 2 hp, so that the boss Shovel Knight will never use the Phase Locket attack (he gets invincible for a short time). Also, during this fight, I managed to skip his health refill, which is triggered when he lost more than 3 hps. To do that, I throw bombs in a very specific way to create an alcove inside the rocks. When Shovel Knight has a rock over him, he launches his horn attack, and hitting him during this animation can skip the refill trigger.
There are a few improvements in this TAS:
During Specter Knight fight (04:32), it would have been faster to make boss body to land on one of the platform, because the ending triggers when the boss body lands.
In Iron Whale (10:51), there is a 1-tile hole that I didn't know how to drop into.
Huge thanks to the Shovel Knight discord community for their feedback, advices and enthusiasm!
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When you gotta collect the essence but Mona’s gonna teach you dancing in 30 minutes
*40 minutes
Be late
mona: hey plague knight wanna come over
plague knight: i can't, i'm busy
mona: my parents aren't home
plague knight:
The moment I saw the gameplay I immediately thought of this, then saw this comment
Floors? Where we’re going, we don’t need floors.
Shovel knight: Ok I need to get to Shield knight!
Plague Knight:
Victory:
Shovel Knight - epic pose
Specter Knight - cool tricks with scythe
Plague knight - *_FRIGGIN_* *_PARTAY_*
SLUUUUURRRRRRP
King Knight - flex on the peasants
I've always loved the little jiggy Plague knight does when he defeats a boss
Not to mention how with the gold cloak, Plague twirls his staff while drinking from the potion (like he did in the demo)
Is it a bird, is it a plane, NO, IT'S A FLYING PLAGUE DOCTOR!
this is the only acceptable confusion of a bird
24:18 imagine being defeated within the first few notes of your theme song
This post was made by the plague knight gang
Imagine being defeated in one hit by something you made yourself
This post was made by the mobile gear gang
Imagine having your own locket being used against you
This post was made by the Phase Locket gang
Lol
"Wow Plague, you're killing it with getting these Essen-oh okay bye i guess"
*"OKIGOTTHEESSENCECOOL?COOLOKBYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-!"*
Black Knight: *Gets Mona to leave Plague Knight*
Plague Knight: 19:20
Plague Knight: *Worst. Wingman. Ever!*
"Wow, what was her probl--HEY OUCH OW OW STOP OW OUCH AAAAAAGH"
I can only imagine the absolute chaos that would insue had this run started off with the Pandemonium Cloak.
11:43 plague knight do be lookin' kinda fresh doe
He's groovin
Less than two minutes in and we're already nega clipping through the nth dimension.
This is gonna be good.
PK: "I gotta make the ultimate potion so I can be the ultimate being and impress Mona"
Mona: "b- but you already are"
PK: My arms are not as insanely strong as my legs, Mona.
the best part was when plague knight played hole in the wall and changed his pose in order to fit in the “shovel knight only” spinning door (5:54)
1:31 A weapon to surprass speedrunner Mario
Not possible
speedrunner mario: Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
29:08 - 29:54 100% blocks speedrun
Mona: Hey Plaguey, so I created this Potion to help collect the essences, it's a Speed Potion, i called "Meth"
Plague. K: Hum-mm...Let me Try
Plague. K after the Potion:
Breaking Bombs
(insert original “come over” joke here)
It feels like Plague Knight is now carrying special bombs to just blow himself up anytime instead of the usual slow charge
Detnators
Plague knight: Mona I’ve made a decision, I have decided to embrace my inner bird!
Mona: seriously plaguey...
Best campaign change my mind
I don't need to change your mind, it is the best one
Sorry, i consider specter of torment better, specially because of his New game plus
@@darkanayer5867 imo plague of shadows > king of cards > specter of torment > shovel of hope, but all 4 of them are 10/10 masterpieces.
@@jerry3115 yeah feel the same way
Sorry but I have to disagree HARD. Joustus is ****ing awesome, and King Knight and Spectre Knight movement feels great. Shovel Knight is a solid third. Plague Knight... my brain cannot comprehend charge moves and being unable to master the art of explosions I find his movement very clunky.
*_E X P L O S I O N S:_* the movie
I've beaten every single mode and gotten all upgrades, but this still blows me away. Some seriously helpful hints in this and strat.
23:05 those tactical damage boosts to land on the spikes are extremely cool
Well... color me impressed
specter gets bullied timestamp: 4:22
Alternate title: *A bird named plague knight fucking explodes 5 x 10^1000 times.*
I've always loved watching TAS's demolish bosses and this was wonderful
18:28
Holy shit
I love how at 28:48 they intentionally take damage so they can flex on THE ENTIRE GODDAMN ORDER by beating them with 3 health at 30:05
this reminds me of plague knight in his boss fight.
OMG ME TOO!
Black knight after he talks to Mona for one frame: Why do I hear boss music?
28:49 just for the heck of it
"Eh, I don't need that much health"
I know I'm late but this an important part of the speedrun. If you have more than one and a half health Shovel Knight will use his Phase Locket.
@@marmeg5238 his ai should spam the phase locket. We all did
^
I thought oh he's just messing around cause he's knows there's a chicken at the end
He goes to the chicken, opens it, and walks away
Seriously incredible work here.
37:47 heeeey so about that
As I thought, a speedrun of Plague of Shadows would be way more cool than one of Shovel of Hope. Plague Knight's movement is so fun
best love history ever
For when you are late to impressing your crush.
21:33 I love how snowball just bumbs into you
you: hover meanies
me, an intellectual: jawas
He can fly...
I love how they just flex during autoscrollers.
Excellent run :D
13:45
You didn’t mention this in the captions, but you threw the bomb because enemies don’t have hit boxes during the damage flash, right?
Partially right. What you meant is "hurtboxes", the parts of the enemy that actually hurt you upon touch. For most enemies in SK they're almost identical in size to hitboxes. Enemies can't hurt you by touch when they're in a damage phase.
As I suspected.
However I believe you have hitboxes and hurtboxes reversed - if an enemy/projectile hitbox is intersecting with Shovel Knight’s hurtbox, then shovel knight is damaged
Ok after doing some research I found out that the hitbox/hurtbox distinction is only unambiguous in fighting games, sorry
Your pfp disturbs me
Plague knight is a freakin yandere
At this point the Ultimate Potion would have been a downgrade.
You are so good ...good luck man😇
its a tas
21:33 Bruh
He clowned that sucka
When Mona is home alone:
Garden Warrior: late for a recital
Didn't notice but after shovel knight charge slashes you lhe starts teabggimg you. Pretty sure other people can relate
Avoid the chicken at *all costs*
35:23 here is the best part
It's like healthbars don't even exist 0_0
Show: Has one funny frame
Memers on their way to make a template:
Me going to the gas station to get my mom chips
look at he go
1:31 what the fuck was THAT???
*floor? what’s that?*
POV: you thought you were the best.
5:15 Mudvayne reference?
I thought you needed to find the shovel of hope relics to trade with chester to get the arcana
pretty sure that's just to get the arcana for free
1:30 how he do that
plaguey do be on a vegan diet tho
wait you can get the arcana without giving chester the relic? how have i never known this
Oh wow youre here too huh
You'll need to pay him a big amount of gold tho
Yeah yeah Plague Knight is fast, but can we talk about those minions at the start?
12:33 Hi ·>
No need to fight if you can just fly over your enemies
Fans: Plagues gameplay sucks
TAS: ♂️♂️💥
I just wish Plague Knight had more unique levels.
Will you do King of Cards
39:17 here is the worst part
Soni-Chan x Soniku Of the game or the speedrun?
Let the little guy have his big tiddy goth gf.
Here's the worst part 40:02
Shovel Knight TAS??
Tool asisted speedrun
@@НеважноКтояважноктомы Don't worry, I'm well aware of what a tas is. I was surprised by the existence of a Shovel Knight TAS.
@@blackdot105 basically every platformer has a tas, I'm more surprised at the RPGs with tas's
This makes Plague Knight's campaign actually look good.
What the fuck
Theres no way someone did this run without an input hotkey or something. Def cheating somehow
I can smell your skill issue.