Shovel Knight has come to this valley with two goals: to defeat the evil Enchantress and save his lost beloved. You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest.

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic.

It's frightening to think that Shovel Knight might not have come to fruition without Yacht Club Games' highly successful Kickstarter campaign - games like this don't come around often. I want to be a jerk and say this might be a simple case of the devs knowing very little about advanced graphics settings and improperly implementing their graphics on a different API, but it would be completely baseless and I have no evidence to believe that's what's going on here.Yacht Club Games' faux-retro platformer Shovel Knight has become one of the most anticipated titles to come out of the crowdfunding craze.

It could even be caused by using the wrong type of texture filtering. It's also possible a certain filter was accidentally implemented, or perhaps the effect settings were incorrectly adjusted, and the blurry look was unintentional.

It's possible that the Switch porting team just liked the look of this particular filter. This is NOT a case (as some people are trying to suggest) of the Switch not being 'powerful enough' to properly render a game as well as the WiiU does.īecause the graphical architecture of the Switch is more modern, there's a lot more graphical features and filters available to developers, and many of them have a lot more advanced settings. As you say, there's clearly some kind of filter (blur?) being run on the Switch version.

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