Brawlhalla Gets Shovel Knight, But Not How You Would Expect

Blue Mammoth constantly updates their game Brawlhalla and they keep their community in the loop via dev streams on Twitch. This week's dev stream talked a little about upcoming content that had not been revealed yet for their upcoming November 6 major update: Shovel Knight and four of the other supporting "Knights" of Yacht Club Games' Shovel Knight series.

How does it work? They're not a brand new playable Legend like Rayman is seemingly going to be. They're unique skins that amp up the way skins are used in-game to a whole new level. You see, normally, skins just act as a coat of paint to the particular character in question. If you get a skin for Gnash, for instance, it's usually just an aesthetic change and nothing more. In the case of Shovel Knight and his compatriots, this changes the character entirely.

When these new skins are used, they not only change the cosmetic look, but also the voicing of the character. What is a big deal is that it changes the signature move animations and effects entirely as well, essentially making these entirely new Legends that just happen to share the same weapons with their husks. In the meantime, expect to see Shovel Knight, Plague Knight, Specter Knight, King Knight, and Black Knight.

First off, we get Shovel Knight, which is the skin for Gnash. No longer will he "growling" using the skin and he's likely to still use Gnash's Spear and Hammer combo, but with some Shovel-like changes. "Each skin is self contained," explained Zeke Sparkes, Executive Producer of Brawlhalla on the stream.

Plague Knight will be a skin for the bomb-throwing Caspian, "All those bombs? Potions!", Sparkes exclaimed on the dev stream. He rattled of the next couple additions, including Specter Knight as a Nix skin, which makes sense due to the scythe and is a perfect fit. Black Knight will be an Orion skin, with black wings in "full glory."

King Knight, they went into a little more detail on, as he's a skin for Sir Roland. Roland uses a Rocket Lance that acts like a horse when ridden, as well as his sword. But, King Knight doesn't use a horse or lance. Sparkes teased major changes to how he would use the weapon set using the skin, but didn't go into much detail. "Let's see what King Knight's going to ride." Additionally, Sparkes asked "Who would King Knight want behind him?" Our guess is it has something to do with Propellor Rats, but it could likely be Enchantress related.

Eight is better than six.

— Tyveris (@Tyveris) September 23, 2018

In addition, they announced a new map, but went into no full details about it. "Eight is better than six" is something that the Brawlhalla team has echoed in recent tweets, explaining that the free rotation will be eight playable Legends instead of the usual six starting October 3. In addition, November 6 will see the addition to Rayman (much to the chagrin of Super Smash Bros players) and the release of the game on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.