Shovel Knight Bounces Into Blade Strangers As A Guest Character

Nicalis has been on fire with the guest character reveals for the upcoming crossover fighter Blade Strangers, and they’ve dug up another one with Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight from his titular game.

SHOVEL KNIGHT Bounces Into Action!
The valiant indie legend swings his Shovel Blade for everlasting peace!
Playable in #BladeStrangers on #NintendoSwitch #PS4 #Steam summer 2018! pic.twitter.com/4TGuQG76Vr

— Nicalis, Inc. (@nicalis) May 10, 2018

Check out trailers for the three other guest characters that were recently revealed:

• Gunvolt (from Azure Striker Gunvolt)
• Quote (from Cave Story+)
• Isaac (from The Binding of Isaac)

Blade Strangers will release in Summer 2018 for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. You can check out our previous report to hear more from director Toshinobi Kondo who talked about the challenge of making Kawase, Curly, and Solange into characters for the fighter.