Shovel Knight is an outstanding indie game that delivers fun and adventure in spades. I really dig it. (Shovel puns!) The game’s soundtrack is particularly good, and in the video above, a couple of insanely gifted guitarists strum one of its best tunes.
With Ether is a duo of guitarists whose music I’ve featured once before. The video above is their arrangement of my favorite song from Shovel Knight, “Strike the Earth!” They somehow arranged this fast, deceptively complex chiptune for a couple of acoustic guitars, and it sounds fantastic. The breakneck bit at the thirty-eight second mark amazes me every time I hear it.
I found out my library loans out games now, so I put in a request for Shovel Knight yesterday. Looking forward to checking it out!
It’s a really clever game in a bouncy, retro, occasionally brutal kind of way. I really enjoyed it, and DAT SOUNDTRACK.