Every time i hear & see a mention of Spiral Knights i get this nostalgic bitter-sweet emotion in my heart. i can't let go of this Titles' Soundtrack, it's unique artstyle, characters, world & atmosphere. To think.. some of us came here for a little TF2 hat, but found a new adventure calling
ngl i played the game for a hour just for the tf2 hat. nice game of what i play id play more if I can convince my friends to play but this is not my type of game every gamer that plays a mmo stick to that one mmo that is usually the first one
I'll never forget this game, the memories, the times where I used to spend time in the haven with friends just sitting and talking, searching the auction house for items dropped by users for a cheap price, running endless vanaduke runs with the clan, being hyped about saving for high end gear, I wish this game gets a reboot. There's not a single game out there that looks like it.
Spiral Knights has such a novel approach to the archetypical "knightly" theme, that I wish there were more games like it. Push comes to shove and now I'm studying game design. Maybe reality is just a series of conscious mental constructs and I'll make another one, just like SK or better.
4:45 Not just wanting it to thrive, but knowing it COULD have if only it had been given the chance. I love Spiral Knights to death; the art, music, simple gameplay, just everything... and I'm glad I stumbled across another video about the game I still hold dear. Spiral Knights is where I met people who would become my closest friends for many years, and ironically, it's lack of a very prominent story at first inspired me to write my own for the game. When they finally introduced the story missions, I rewrote my story to run parallel to the game, and rewrote the first 20-40 pages about 4 times before, much like development on the game, I just stopped creating anything new. Starting from about a year ago, though, I've now got a novel I'm publishing weekly chapters for based on some what-ifs, including self-inserts of me and my friends' knights, and reimagining the world and story to be more coherent and comprehensive. I hope to keep writing to give it a proper ending that the game never got. And next month, I'm set to graduate with a degree dedicated to Creative Writing, and I have Spiral Knights to thank for putting me on that path.
@@snarblox I appreciate it! I'd love to be able to publish my SK story as a full-fledged series spanning multiple books, but considering Grey Haven's past actions and unwillingness to give SK life in any fashion, I'm worried Spiral Knights: Project R will just be a standalone fanfic/novel for a niche part of the internet to enjoy. As long as people enjoy it tho, that's about as much as an author can ask for
I Love spiral knights to death, but to be honest, the best thing that can happen to spiral knights is the day that it dies. So long as Grey Havens keeps ahold of it, Spiral knights will never grow or become better. People in the community tried to optimize the game and create new content for it, but they got shut down via DMCA (on SK's anniversary too!!), leaving SK in this state of limbo that we so desperately don't want it to be in.
Spiral Knights could be HUGE today if they made a new one. Imagine Spiral Knights with the action-packed combat of something like V: Rising with more flashy weapon attacks...
Imagine also mixing in more impactful platforming and puzzle solving mechanics. I've been thinking if they (or whoever buys the SK IP off of Grey Havens) don't ever bring back or restore SK as the 4 player coop dungeon crawler live service it was in its glory days, they could hopefully still utilise the world and art for a more standalone repayable game, an ARPG, maybe a rouge-like, without the auction house, and just more obtainable unlockable weapons and so on. Like all of that is already there and the designs are already there. It's just a question of how to implement it in a fun gameplay loop. I guess what I mean is it's disconcerting how Spiral Knights is an online only game, even if Grey Havens is doing the least it can do keeping it playable, but one day it might become unplayable with how terrible the netcode already is.
Found out about the game through a random side ad on a website I think. My 7-year old mind was astonished by the lovely art so I clicked it. That moment shaped the entirity of my early middle-school and even early highschool (when I returned to it for a but). Such a lovely game. Such good memories. Great video, thanks for reminding me of the good times
The breakcore on the background... Really brought a tear to my eye... Underrated genre.... Like Spiral Knights... an underrated game. Thank you for the love letter, it resonated with a lot of us. Thank you, Spiral Knights.
Holy SHIT I struck gold finding this youtuber. I feel you though. Totally had the vibe that it would last but it seemed like the lack of content is what ended up making it fall off. The music and the world building was way too insane to just drop the IP entirely like that.
I also discovered this game on my teens. I jsut got my new laptop on 2011 and I was looking for games to play, usually played facebook games til on a group chat of Pokemon someone mentioned playing a game, spiral knights. I got curious and researched it and I inmediately fell in love with the games design and concept. The ability of using guns and swords is a badass concept for me (and that was before I even knew Dante from DMC), I played it religiously I even had a day or two where I spend exploring the clockwords, I called it "Spiral Night" where I get some cookies, some milk (or sometimes andother snack) and play the game which usually that day was on friday and saturday. I got hyped for the UI change since I always wanted monsters and bosses have a healthbar, but that turned off many people. Then came the sprite update and I think that's where SK peaked in my opinion, but there are a few set backs from the spirte update which is the revival concept, you cannot longer revive friends with half your health, I dont know why, but that for me was a very stupid decision since I remember helping out friends by giving them my heat on Vana since I had all my weapons maxed alongside the forge where you cannot forge your weapons, making the heat gained in Vana extremely useless. I love this game still, but I honestly wish we could get another expansion pass or more missions, we ended on going to the core but that's just it...
imagine if we finally got to uncover the secrets of the core. imagine if we had more missions exploring the surface to forage resources, explore new regions, and meet new NPCs. imagine if we finally got to repair the skylark, setting out for even more worlds, including the spiral knights' homeworld. imagine the breadth of the epic sci fi adventure we could've gotten. it's easy to forget that the spiral knights universe is not just composed of the clockworks, or even just the planet Cradle, but also contains a spacefaring civilization in a vast starscape with diverse life and a rich history. reading up on the game's lore, you can tell that the writers envisioned cradle as only a small slice of the spiral knights universe. i played this game when i was about 8 years old, and even years later as the game was obviously decaying, my love for the world of spiral knights kept me going. of course, as long as the game lies in the hands of Gray Havens, nothing will ever be done with the game. i worry that even if they let the IP go, it would be too late for enough people to care. my heart goes out to all the people who still have love for this game. thinking about the memories i made with this game, the experiences i had, and the friends i made along the way... somehow, it makes me feel like i'm not lonely. i don't believe this game will ever live up to its true potential, but who knows? maybe someone-- somewhere, at some unknown point in time-- will find a way to revitalize this game in a meaningful way.
Dude when I first played the game when I was younger I was the exact same way. It was always "what could be around the next corner" and "what kind of creatures and people exist elsewhere within this universe". I distinctly remember riding home from school so excited to hop on and play more SK. I seriously think this game struck gold in its hay day and I only wish it had the love and support it deserves that something like a revival could do for the game.
This game was a big part of my childhood in terms of MMOs, I loved the sense of wonder and mystique it had when you were new to it and you slowly worked your way down to the deepest levels. I hate to see the state it's in nowadays but I guess that's just how these type of games eventually end up as. I do hope that one day, we can get a sequel that gives it new life.
Will always remember this game, it was such a vibe back when I was in highschool, the music and art were great and the gameplay, though simple was fun still Was a BIG inspiration for my own art growing up, so seeing Spiral Knights always makes a smile form on my face
Hey there! We get the same feeling about the game, the atmosphere, the music, the cool designs. I had the luck of doing Dauntless Delver in 2012 while using an Elevator Pass. Remember that achievement would require around 300~ energy to complete at that time. I got all the achievements by around 2015 I believe, since I never cared about the trinket slots and such. Also OGs would remember the achievements about reviving a teammate with half a heart. :D I am still playing it time-to-time, trying to do new sets as Bomber or Gunslingers. Replay older missions instead of just farming FSC. We all know that it is just matter of time that one day we will receive a message while trying to log-in about the server closure.
grey havens lost everyone who mattered when they split with sega and changed names from three rings.. all the developers and musio art all left just greedy cash grab ppl bought the ip from sega and quite honestly treat the community rather bad.
spiral knight was such a great time for my young brain, not only a fan of sega and sonic already at the time, but once I saw the characters design I was amazed. specially the in game ones, they look so nice and well, this was the first mmo I played, the first game with 3d models (and they looked amazing for the time) I loved the world design, I loved the roguelike-esque dungeons, (I loved it not being a huge boring openworld in if you walk around too much you get lost or waste time due to all the quests being far away as opposed to other mmos) always wished more for spiral knights tbh. I hope this does get remade by a indie dev group or something. thanks for the video
Probably the best thing that could happen to SK now is, and I say this knowing that it could totally go bad, is some kind of fan remake - think something like Toontown Rewritten or the multiple Phantasy Star Online 1 fan servers. It's one of those games with a small but quite dedicated community who I believe, given the chance, would probably start making their own content! After all, the story isn't over yet - we never got a proper ending. Also, I am in the exact same camp as you: playing this game for the first time as a kid has sort of single-handedly shaped my preferences with aesthetics and art in games, and the potential of the lore and world are so enrapturing I keep coming back to write about my ideas for things set in the world. So, if there ever is a fan continuation, I'd love to be on the writing team. Great video! I'm glad to see people haven't forgotten this game - that seems to unite most SK fans: they really like this game nobody cares about anymore.
Man I played this the year it came out, I really miss this game, I come back to it time to time. The aesthetic of the game, artstyle, ost, the feel of it all is just unmatched imo. Since I was a kid I always had a goal to make my own game inspired by this game so I can actually have something to play that has that same feel since SK stopped being updated. Now that I'm an adult and I realize how hard everything is, I've given up on that dream of course. x) Now I just hope in the future, private servers will work out and the host can add their own content or something, maybe even the actual ending to the game and the final boss that's in the game files. But also it's just the very simple things that I like about the game, like the feeling of running into a tile full of boxes and shield bashing through them all, hearing the satisfying sound of them popping and the loot pickup sound, if I were to ever pick up that previous dream again, that's definitely a requirement for the game. For now the most I can do is make remixes of the songs I like the most from the game. (which is most)
Spiral Knights was the only game I never left forever. I still log on every day to see if there's a lockdown match going to hop into. If only fileswaps didn't plague this game so bad, and I've played through the full story atleast 10 times now, through many new knights...
I've literally asked GH if they were willing to sell the game through their customer support email in 2023. They said NOT INTERESTED. I have no idea why, there would be tons of people who'd buy the IP - even different companies.
I’ve played this game, on and off for years. Never got too far. Don’t have too much time or money to actually commit to a solid run through. Love the game tho. 2012 or 2013 I started playing alongside my brother. It never seemed to take off as much as I had hoped.
I remember back in 2018 when I first started playing Team Fortress 2. In my crave for the remaining free hats I discovered the Spiral Sallet. I downloaded Spiral Knights immediately and, without realizing, I was grinding ranks beyond the achievement I needed for the hat. I was captivated by the game's beauty, its intriguing lore, the amazing soundtrack. While looking at the Steam reviews I found some curious wise words from a user: _"We came for the hat, but we left with something heavier in our heads."_ I love this game. If it only was released in Switch perhaps Spiral Knights may have a second chance to shine as the game always deserved.
I played this game on kongregate back in 2011 and returned to it in 2015 on steam, it has such a unique story + artstyle (I love cherub's artwork and design choices so much lol). Granted I still haven't 100%'d it, but I guess it's time for me to cut away at some rank/prestige missions :)
i picked up spiral knights in late 2011, on steam, mostly for the tf2 hat but also because it was one of the few actually half-decent f2p titles on steam at the time. since then, i've logged almost 3000 hours into it. this game makes up a considerable part of who i am as a person and i will always be grateful for that
You're video randomly pop in my recommendation somehow. Last time I've played the game was few years ago (playing for 1-2 day and login off). You made me want to experience the game 1 more times with my Vanguard knight. If I have time who knows, maybe ill play more. Good video.
The SK community was the most close knit community I've ever been part of. All the GvG stuff, chasing new accesories, hanging out with guildies has been unforgettable to me and I've been chasing similar experiences ever since. Never quite found it tho. I miss it. Wish I could remake the game and add more content.
Thank you for the video ^^ I'm still playing through the story, I picked it up again around 2021 or 2022,but I had first played it around 2012,and it's so, so gosh dang nostalgic to me! The whole feel of the game is so unique and special, I really hope it can someday get a resurgence! Maybe a reboot! ;w; I would love for Spiral Knights to get a second chance, either way, it's so special! Thank you again for sharing! ^^ And I just read the description, and, while I haven't watched your videos before this one, yet, I do really like the style of this video, personally! ^^ ALSO Thank you for listing the music in the description, I really appreciate that, I literally just heard a cool track (2 now, while writing this XD) and checked the description hoping the names were there and they were! Thank you, that's awesome! ^^
im so glad this video exists genuinely i started playing sk when it released and i was like 7 years old, was probably babys first introduction to online games before even any virtual worlds like animal jam or club penguin. completely obssessed with it for yearsssssss, this game shaped my taste in so many things, from art style to character design to music to gameplay. i saw it go through pretty much all its major changes until around 2014 when i stopped playing for a bit shortly before the tortodrones event. as a side note i was obssessed with the tortodrones so that was a massive unlucky time to stop playing. i recently got back to it just yesterday (at the time of writing) and even if it is very small (and just as laggy as it was 10+ years ago) its still so much fun and i love it. im so glad to know this community still exists and loves the game as much as i do
Welp you got me fam. Completetly and entierly. Personally I found Spiral Knights through NewGrounds. I know it sounds weird but look it up it's there! Ever since then I was captivated eniterly. Phenomenal vid dude seriously!
for like the past year, i come to my steam collection and just stare with no idea what to play. its been driving me insane because i know what i want to play, i want to play something like spiral knights, like multiplayer old school zelda, and combined with hammerwatch 2 being a flop it has driven me to what to learn game development and see if i can make something like spiral knights. check back in 5 years (spoilers i probably gave up)
I think steam numbers are a bit misleading in regards of popularity. I was in the same boat as you, played it without steam for a while. Congrats on 100%. I have two achievements left, but they are the equipment slot ones. I miss the days where you could share your health bars to revive your friends in the middle of an intense battle. Sharing that last bar, everyone losing their minds...
I used to play this game and quite enjoy it. But what happened to the game so far...like paying energy to descend through elevator. Remember when it was free? Good old days. I've made my own saying , it goes like : Whenever is something enjoyable, good or at least liked by some smaller group of people or community, overtime it will fade away , dissapear, vanish and likely replaced by something different that is not so good.
I’m in the same boat. I fell in love with the game back in the day too, and told myself that one day I’d come back and play it when I had a better computer. I started a new journey just today. If there’s room in your guild or group for another knight, I’d love to join 😁
I loved the game.. cant beliefe its over 11 years now that I started.. in fact apparently thats when I got the achievement aswell.. thats crazy, I love the unique style, customization and atmosphere of the game! Nice vid! Quick question, why use the Faust instead of the Gran Faust? ^^
نشط: يدخل Jax في Evasion ، وهو موقف دفاعي ، لمدة ثانيتين ، مما يتسبب في تفادي Counter Strike لجميع الهجمات الأساسية التي لا تحتوي على برج. يأخذ Jax أيضًا ضررًا مخفضًا بنسبة 25٪ من جميع قدرات منطقة التأثير البطل. يمكن إعادة صياغة Counter Strike بعد ثانية واحدة. في نهاية المدة ، تصعق أيقونة Jax Stun جميع الأعداء اريبين لمدة ثانية واحدة وتسبب لهم ضررًا جسديًا ، ويزيد بنسبة 20٪ لكل هجوم يتم تفاديه ، بزيادة تصل إلى 100٪
Love the video but I can’t believe you never had dauntless diver before this, back when I played I was a basic vanguard who wore snow skovler in any activity I did and I had every achievement. I’m not saying you capping but it’s just hard to imagine a long time player for this long hasn’t had every achievement yet
i'm playing since almost release date, and yet i have already approximately 3-4 accounts but on most of them i don't have even 70-90% of achievements). I just relax in the game.
Every time i hear & see a mention of Spiral Knights
i get this nostalgic bitter-sweet emotion in my heart.
i can't let go of this Titles' Soundtrack, it's unique artstyle, characters, world & atmosphere.
To think.. some of us came here for a little TF2 hat,
but found a new adventure calling
Dude, when the video opened and I heard that soundtrack along with this dude's calming ass voice, I was blasted to the past and fucking died
ngl i played the game for a hour just for the tf2 hat. nice game of what i play id play more if I can convince my friends to play but this is not my type of game
every gamer that plays a mmo stick to that one mmo that is usually the first one
With me it was due to a UA-cam ad me and my little brother saw
I'll never forget this game, the memories, the times where I used to spend time in the haven with friends just sitting and talking, searching the auction house for items dropped by users for a cheap price, running endless vanaduke runs with the clan, being hyped about saving for high end gear, I wish this game gets a reboot. There's not a single game out there that looks like it.
Spiral Knights has such a novel approach to the archetypical "knightly" theme, that I wish there were more games like it.
Push comes to shove and now I'm studying game design. Maybe reality is just a series of conscious mental constructs and I'll make another one, just like SK or better.
4:45 Not just wanting it to thrive, but knowing it COULD have if only it had been given the chance. I love Spiral Knights to death; the art, music, simple gameplay, just everything... and I'm glad I stumbled across another video about the game I still hold dear.
Spiral Knights is where I met people who would become my closest friends for many years, and ironically, it's lack of a very prominent story at first inspired me to write my own for the game. When they finally introduced the story missions, I rewrote my story to run parallel to the game, and rewrote the first 20-40 pages about 4 times before, much like development on the game, I just stopped creating anything new.
Starting from about a year ago, though, I've now got a novel I'm publishing weekly chapters for based on some what-ifs, including self-inserts of me and my friends' knights, and reimagining the world and story to be more coherent and comprehensive. I hope to keep writing to give it a proper ending that the game never got. And next month, I'm set to graduate with a degree dedicated to Creative Writing, and I have Spiral Knights to thank for putting me on that path.
That's actually awesome dude
@@snarblox I appreciate it! I'd love to be able to publish my SK story as a full-fledged series spanning multiple books, but considering Grey Haven's past actions and unwillingness to give SK life in any fashion, I'm worried Spiral Knights: Project R will just be a standalone fanfic/novel for a niche part of the internet to enjoy. As long as people enjoy it tho, that's about as much as an author can ask for
Still playing from time to time, and many other people too!
I Love spiral knights to death, but to be honest, the best thing that can happen to spiral knights is the day that it dies. So long as Grey Havens keeps ahold of it, Spiral knights will never grow or become better. People in the community tried to optimize the game and create new content for it, but they got shut down via DMCA (on SK's anniversary too!!), leaving SK in this state of limbo that we so desperately don't want it to be in.
My cope is that the devs are transferring the game code from Java to another source. I think I'm lying to myself lol
What was the other game?
@@Savantageouss They've had more than enough time... unfortunately it just won't happen
Spiral Knights could be HUGE today if they made a new one. Imagine Spiral Knights with the action-packed combat of something like V: Rising with more flashy weapon attacks...
Imagine also mixing in more impactful platforming and puzzle solving mechanics. I've been thinking if they (or whoever buys the SK IP off of Grey Havens) don't ever bring back or restore SK as the 4 player coop dungeon crawler live service it was in its glory days, they could hopefully still utilise the world and art for a more standalone repayable game, an ARPG, maybe a rouge-like, without the auction house, and just more obtainable unlockable weapons and so on. Like all of that is already there and the designs are already there. It's just a question of how to implement it in a fun gameplay loop. I guess what I mean is it's disconcerting how Spiral Knights is an online only game, even if Grey Havens is doing the least it can do keeping it playable, but one day it might become unplayable with how terrible the netcode already is.
Found out about the game through a random side ad on a website I think. My 7-year old mind was astonished by the lovely art so I clicked it. That moment shaped the entirity of my early middle-school and even early highschool (when I returned to it for a but). Such a lovely game. Such good memories.
Great video, thanks for reminding me of the good times
Same here, but the website was UA-cam specifically
I loved this, makes me really wish I had someone to play Spiral Knights with
The breakcore on the background... Really brought a tear to my eye... Underrated genre.... Like Spiral Knights... an underrated game. Thank you for the love letter, it resonated with a lot of us.
Thank you, Spiral Knights.
I'm glad you liked it. This game really holds a deep place in my heart and I'm always glad to hear more from other fans of the game.
Holy SHIT I struck gold finding this youtuber. I feel you though. Totally had the vibe that it would last but it seemed like the lack of content is what ended up making it fall off. The music and the world building was way too insane to just drop the IP entirely like that.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, I'm hoping to have the next one out soonish!
I also discovered this game on my teens. I jsut got my new laptop on 2011 and I was looking for games to play, usually played facebook games til on a group chat of Pokemon someone mentioned playing a game, spiral knights. I got curious and researched it and I inmediately fell in love with the games design and concept. The ability of using guns and swords is a badass concept for me (and that was before I even knew Dante from DMC), I played it religiously I even had a day or two where I spend exploring the clockwords, I called it "Spiral Night" where I get some cookies, some milk (or sometimes andother snack) and play the game which usually that day was on friday and saturday.
I got hyped for the UI change since I always wanted monsters and bosses have a healthbar, but that turned off many people. Then came the sprite update and I think that's where SK peaked in my opinion, but there are a few set backs from the spirte update which is the revival concept, you cannot longer revive friends with half your health, I dont know why, but that for me was a very stupid decision since I remember helping out friends by giving them my heat on Vana since I had all my weapons maxed alongside the forge where you cannot forge your weapons, making the heat gained in Vana extremely useless.
I love this game still, but I honestly wish we could get another expansion pass or more missions, we ended on going to the core but that's just it...
I was 7 when I found out on this game on the family computer still play it to this day I’m 19 now
imagine if we finally got to uncover the secrets of the core.
imagine if we had more missions exploring the surface to forage resources, explore new regions, and meet new NPCs.
imagine if we finally got to repair the skylark, setting out for even more worlds, including the spiral knights' homeworld.
imagine the breadth of the epic sci fi adventure we could've gotten.
it's easy to forget that the spiral knights universe is not just composed of the clockworks, or even just the planet Cradle, but also contains a spacefaring civilization in a vast starscape with diverse life and a rich history.
reading up on the game's lore, you can tell that the writers envisioned cradle as only a small slice of the spiral knights universe.
i played this game when i was about 8 years old, and even years later as the game was obviously decaying, my love for the world of spiral knights kept me going.
of course, as long as the game lies in the hands of Gray Havens, nothing will ever be done with the game. i worry that even if they let the IP go, it would be too late for enough people to care.
my heart goes out to all the people who still have love for this game. thinking about the memories i made with this game, the experiences i had, and the friends i made along the way... somehow, it makes me feel like i'm not lonely.
i don't believe this game will ever live up to its true potential, but who knows? maybe someone-- somewhere, at some unknown point in time-- will find a way to revitalize this game in a meaningful way.
Dude when I first played the game when I was younger I was the exact same way. It was always "what could be around the next corner" and "what kind of creatures and people exist elsewhere within this universe". I distinctly remember riding home from school so excited to hop on and play more SK. I seriously think this game struck gold in its hay day and I only wish it had the love and support it deserves that something like a revival could do for the game.
Many such stories brother. So many of us were spellbound as kids, and can't seem to shake the feeling it gave us.
This game was a big part of my childhood in terms of MMOs, I loved the sense of wonder and mystique it had when you were new to it and you slowly worked your way down to the deepest levels.
I hate to see the state it's in nowadays but I guess that's just how these type of games eventually end up as. I do hope that one day, we can get a sequel that gives it new life.
yes, yes I have, may be a bit late, but it's unlike any other
Will always remember this game, it was such a vibe back when I was in highschool, the music and art were great and the gameplay, though simple was fun still
Was a BIG inspiration for my own art growing up, so seeing Spiral Knights always makes a smile form on my face
Hey there! We get the same feeling about the game, the atmosphere, the music, the cool designs. I had the luck of doing Dauntless Delver in 2012 while using an Elevator Pass. Remember that achievement would require around 300~ energy to complete at that time.
I got all the achievements by around 2015 I believe, since I never cared about the trinket slots and such.
Also OGs would remember the achievements about reviving a teammate with half a heart. :D
I am still playing it time-to-time, trying to do new sets as Bomber or Gunslingers. Replay older missions instead of just farming FSC. We all know that it is just matter of time that one day we will receive a message while trying to log-in about the server closure.
grey havens lost everyone who mattered when they split with sega and changed names from three rings.. all the developers and musio art all left just greedy cash grab ppl bought the ip from sega and quite honestly treat the community rather bad.
this game made my childhood even though i was running it at 10 fps
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spiral knight was such a great time for my young brain, not only a fan of sega and sonic already at the time, but once I saw the characters design I was amazed. specially the in game ones, they look so nice and well, this was the first mmo I played, the first game with 3d models (and they looked amazing for the time)
I loved the world design, I loved the roguelike-esque dungeons, (I loved it not being a huge boring openworld in if you walk around too much you get lost or waste time due to all the quests being far away as opposed to other mmos)
always wished more for spiral knights tbh. I hope this does get remade by a indie dev group or something.
thanks for the video
Probably the best thing that could happen to SK now is, and I say this knowing that it could totally go bad, is some kind of fan remake - think something like Toontown Rewritten or the multiple Phantasy Star Online 1 fan servers. It's one of those games with a small but quite dedicated community who I believe, given the chance, would probably start making their own content! After all, the story isn't over yet - we never got a proper ending.
Also, I am in the exact same camp as you: playing this game for the first time as a kid has sort of single-handedly shaped my preferences with aesthetics and art in games, and the potential of the lore and world are so enrapturing I keep coming back to write about my ideas for things set in the world. So, if there ever is a fan continuation, I'd love to be on the writing team.
Great video! I'm glad to see people haven't forgotten this game - that seems to unite most SK fans: they really like this game nobody cares about anymore.
Man I played this the year it came out, I really miss this game, I come back to it time to time. The aesthetic of the game, artstyle, ost, the feel of it all is just unmatched imo. Since I was a kid I always had a goal to make my own game inspired by this game so I can actually have something to play that has that same feel since SK stopped being updated. Now that I'm an adult and I realize how hard everything is, I've given up on that dream of course. x) Now I just hope in the future, private servers will work out and the host can add their own content or something, maybe even the actual ending to the game and the final boss that's in the game files. But also it's just the very simple things that I like about the game, like the feeling of running into a tile full of boxes and shield bashing through them all, hearing the satisfying sound of them popping and the loot pickup sound, if I were to ever pick up that previous dream again, that's definitely a requirement for the game. For now the most I can do is make remixes of the songs I like the most from the game. (which is most)
Damn I've had passing pipe dreams of remaking this game as well. Maybe one day
Spiral Knights was the only game I never left forever. I still log on every day to see if there's a lockdown match going to hop into. If only fileswaps didn't plague this game so bad, and I've played through the full story atleast 10 times now, through many new knights...
I've literally asked GH if they were willing to sell the game through their customer support email in 2023. They said NOT INTERESTED. I have no idea why, there would be tons of people who'd buy the IP - even different companies.
I’ve played this game, on and off for years. Never got too far. Don’t have too much time or money to actually commit to a solid run through. Love the game tho. 2012 or 2013 I started playing alongside my brother. It never seemed to take off as much as I had hoped.
I remember back in 2018 when I first started playing Team Fortress 2. In my crave for the remaining free hats I discovered the Spiral Sallet. I downloaded Spiral Knights immediately and, without realizing, I was grinding ranks beyond the achievement I needed for the hat. I was captivated by the game's beauty, its intriguing lore, the amazing soundtrack. While looking at the Steam reviews I found some curious wise words from a user: _"We came for the hat, but we left with something heavier in our heads."_
I love this game. If it only was released in Switch perhaps Spiral Knights may have a second chance to shine as the game always deserved.
I played this game on kongregate back in 2011 and returned to it in 2015 on steam, it has such a unique story + artstyle (I love cherub's artwork and design choices so much lol). Granted I still haven't 100%'d it, but I guess it's time for me to cut away at some rank/prestige missions :)
i picked up spiral knights in late 2011, on steam, mostly for the tf2 hat but also because it was one of the few actually half-decent f2p titles on steam at the time. since then, i've logged almost 3000 hours into it. this game makes up a considerable part of who i am as a person and i will always be grateful for that
i remember running so many dungeons with my clan "Shard Squad" playing non-meta sets.
You're video randomly pop in my recommendation somehow. Last time I've played the game was few years ago (playing for 1-2 day and login off). You made me want to experience the game 1 more times with my Vanguard knight. If I have time who knows, maybe ill play more. Good video.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
The SK community was the most close knit community I've ever been part of. All the GvG stuff, chasing new accesories, hanging out with guildies has been unforgettable to me and I've been chasing similar experiences ever since. Never quite found it tho. I miss it. Wish I could remake the game and add more content.
Im begging for a huge influencer to play and stream this game to revive it❤
Thank you for the video ^^ I'm still playing through the story, I picked it up again around 2021 or 2022,but I had first played it around 2012,and it's so, so gosh dang nostalgic to me! The whole feel of the game is so unique and special, I really hope it can someday get a resurgence! Maybe a reboot! ;w; I would love for Spiral Knights to get a second chance, either way, it's so special!
Thank you again for sharing! ^^
And I just read the description, and, while I haven't watched your videos before this one, yet, I do really like the style of this video, personally! ^^
ALSO Thank you for listing the music in the description, I really appreciate that, I literally just heard a cool track (2 now, while writing this XD) and checked the description hoping the names were there and they were! Thank you, that's awesome! ^^
im so glad this video exists genuinely
i started playing sk when it released and i was like 7 years old, was probably babys first introduction to online games before even any virtual worlds like animal jam or club penguin. completely obssessed with it for yearsssssss, this game shaped my taste in so many things, from art style to character design to music to gameplay. i saw it go through pretty much all its major changes until around 2014 when i stopped playing for a bit shortly before the tortodrones event. as a side note i was obssessed with the tortodrones so that was a massive unlucky time to stop playing. i recently got back to it just yesterday (at the time of writing) and even if it is very small (and just as laggy as it was 10+ years ago) its still so much fun and i love it. im so glad to know this community still exists and loves the game as much as i do
I had to share my love for Spiral Knights, so being able to talk about it and 100% it finally after so long was very bittersweet to me
Welp you got me fam. Completetly and entierly.
Personally I found Spiral Knights through NewGrounds. I know it sounds weird but look it up it's there! Ever since then I was captivated eniterly.
Phenomenal vid dude seriously!
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the videos
I miss Spiral Knights and I wish Grey Heaven's would allow someone to pick up the IP and make new content
I miss spiral knights! I hope someone will takeover this game.
One can dream
back when my entire steam fl was playing tf2 or spiral knights.. good old times
TF2 and Spiral Knights were some of the first games I ever got on steam
@@snarblox same, right after super meat boy for me
for like the past year, i come to my steam collection and just stare with no idea what to play. its been driving me insane because i know what i want to play, i want to play something like spiral knights, like multiplayer old school zelda, and combined with hammerwatch 2 being a flop it has driven me to what to learn game development and see if i can make something like spiral knights. check back in 5 years (spoilers i probably gave up)
I think steam numbers are a bit misleading in regards of popularity.
I was in the same boat as you, played it without steam for a while.
Congrats on 100%. I have two achievements left, but they are the equipment slot ones.
I miss the days where you could share your health bars to revive your friends in the middle of an intense battle. Sharing that last bar, everyone losing their minds...
if only gamedev wasnt hard, ive wanted to soul success this forever...
6:45 w music taste
I used to play this game and quite enjoy it. But what happened to the game so far...like paying energy to descend through elevator. Remember when it was free? Good old days. I've made my own saying , it goes like : Whenever is something enjoyable, good or at least liked by some smaller group of people or community, overtime it will fade away , dissapear, vanish and likely replaced by something different that is not so good.
I’m in the same boat. I fell in love with the game back in the day too, and told myself that one day I’d come back and play it when I had a better computer. I started a new journey just today. If there’s room in your guild or group for another knight, I’d love to join 😁
I'm only online sporadically and most of my clanmates aren't too active, but there are still plenty of groups still active so that's a plus!
@@snarblox Aw dang, well thanks for the info! I’ll see about connecting with those groups!
one of us
one of us
I loved the game.. cant beliefe its over 11 years now that I started.. in fact apparently thats when I got the achievement aswell.. thats crazy, I love the unique style, customization and atmosphere of the game! Nice vid!
Quick question, why use the Faust instead of the Gran Faust? ^^
Haven't finished the Gran Faust recipe yet (embarrassingly) lol...
نشط: يدخل Jax في Evasion ، وهو موقف دفاعي ، لمدة ثانيتين ، مما يتسبب في تفادي Counter Strike لجميع الهجمات الأساسية التي لا تحتوي على برج. يأخذ Jax أيضًا ضررًا مخفضًا بنسبة 25٪ من جميع قدرات منطقة التأثير البطل. يمكن إعادة صياغة Counter Strike بعد ثانية واحدة. في نهاية المدة ، تصعق أيقونة Jax Stun جميع الأعداء اريبين لمدة ثانية واحدة وتسبب لهم ضررًا جسديًا ، ويزيد بنسبة 20٪ لكل هجوم يتم تفاديه ، بزيادة تصل إلى 100٪
i still play the game, only like 300 hours though
i love also this game
If they port to mobile I will play ,it's like it was made for mobile bro.
Mate, you got an amazing voice.
Childhood
Love the video but I can’t believe you never had dauntless diver before this, back when I played I was a basic vanguard who wore snow skovler in any activity I did and I had every achievement. I’m not saying you capping but it’s just hard to imagine a long time player for this long hasn’t had every achievement yet
I never got around to, or specifically was hunting achievements, until a few years ago
i'm playing since almost release date, and yet i have already approximately 3-4 accounts but on most of them i don't have even 70-90% of achievements). I just relax in the game.
Titanium warriors is the chineese rip off and much better
Legendary game , so glad I have content to treasure forever for SK 🥹