![]() Eurogamer's Christian Donlan recently got his hands on Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, where he called it an "an awful lot of fun", despite not typically being a fan of falling block puzzle games. Meanwhile, Shovel Knight keeps going from strength to strength. At the time of writing, it is already around £260k. This move appears to have paid off, as the developer has already confidently exceeded its £230k pledge goal, and that number just keeps on rising. In order to help fund the development of Mina The Hollower, Yacht Club Games has turned to Kickstarter once more. Hauntingly authentic 8-bit visuals in the style of Game Boy Color, refined for the modern era. The full reveal trailer for Mina The Hollower can be watched below. Encounter a cast of bizarre characters, search out secrets in an array of exotic locales, and illuminate the omnipresent darkness in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight Features. It's almost as if Castlevania and Link's Awakening had a baby, and that baby was Mina The Hollower. As if this didn't sound compelling enough on its own, the whole game is stylised as an homage to handheld games of the Game Boy Color era, with pixelated foes, a top-down perspective and (something vital for any Game Boy game) a glorious chiptune soundtrack. On a quest to save a cursed island from the perils that have befallen it, Mina must "leap, dodge, and burrow through the ground" while fighting off monsters with her trusty whip Nightstar or other various trinkets and sidearms. ![]() Yacht Club has promised players a "bone chilling" experience. Don't let their cute façade fool you though. Rather, this time players will have the chance to take on the mantle of Mina, an adorable but lethal mouse. Yacht Club Games will be using Kickstarter to fund Mina the Hollower. This is their first game that has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. Players control Mina, a mouse who fights enemies using a whip while navigating dungeons. In a first for the company, the game has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. Mina the Hollower is a tribute to classic video games with an 8-bit art design and top-down perspective. Yacht Club Games revealed their newest IP, Mina: The Hollower, a brand new Zelda-like game from pitched as a love letter to classic GameBoy era titles.
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