Mina the Hollower has been at the top of my wishlist ever since I first laid eyes on its gorgeous retro visuals that were so clearly inspired by the Game Boy Zelda titles. But developer Yacht Club Games, which previously made Shovel Knight, knows how to take that retro spirit in unusual directions, and by the devs' own estimation, the gameplay owes a lot more to the likes of Castlevania and Bloodborne than Zelda.
"Shovel Knight was our side-scrolling [platformer]," Yacht Club co-founder Sean Velasco tells our friends at newsletter Knowledge. "We wanted to do a top-down game that had different gameplay. I think many of us were thinking, 'If only we could be doing something a little bit different.' We wanted to go more fully into the RPG space and make something that had a lot more combat."
