SKULLS FOR SKILLS

Every stage hides a gold skull, either behind a breakable block or beyond a particularly exacting platforming challenge. As your collection builds you’ll unlock new outfits for Hawkins, an in-game shop that offers packs of extra lives and other bonuses, plus several additional characters, among them Cave Story’s Curly Brace and Knytt Stories’ Juni. Soon enough you’ll open up two further arcade modes, both of which give you fewer lives with which to best longer stages.