Lost in Shadow

[magus]

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this came out in japan and ehy everytime someone puts even a tiny itsy bitsy effort when making a wii game that's reason to celebrate! plus it's already fully translated which is pretty weird when you think the game doesn't even have a release date for the us

so basicaly you are a random guy inside some sort of contraption on top of a tower when dr.doom cousin rips your shadow off and throw it off to the tower,so now you have to get back to the top while being reduced to a shadow,the game is pretty much a standard puzzle platformer with the gimmick being that you aren't jumping between objects but are jumping between shadows created by the objects around you

the puzzles come from your ability to manipulate the object around you to cast different shadows,this would have been a pretty cool idea but it's all done in a pretty straightforward manner,by pressing B you search for item to move and you can move only certain items and move them only in certain position,so more than puzzle's they feel like "PRESS B TO CONTINUE" similiary sometimes the game ask you to move the point of light trough a slider so for example if you move it lower the platform becomes higher but again it doesn't take a genius to figure what to do and it's more of a "MOVE SLIDER TO CONTINUE" moment,some puzzles also ask you to move the point of view making it similiar to crush but crush was much much much harder than this

the visuals are pretty reminescent of ico so i guess people that are into that sort of stuff are already ready to declare it the best game ever,there are enemies but it takes around 15 minute's (maybe even more) before you meet one,in fact at first i tought there would be no enemy at all ,combat is pretty basic,you can do a 3-hit combo by mashing B and that's about it,there is also no music unless you count the otherwordly "oooooooooo" as music

and personaly i found this game incredibly boring and i bet someone like demi would agree,but i guess some people are willing to give this game a chance based on the visual alone

[Himu]

wii continues to provide interesting looking quirky games

[demi]

I actually liked it. I only got the sword and died. BTW play on hard.

[magus]

I actually liked it. I only got the sword and died. BTW play on hard.

i played on normal but i don't see how hard can do the trick... isn't it just a "there are more enemy/enemy do more damage" stuff?

[demi]

Yes, which is why you should play on Hard

[Bebpo]

It looks interesting.  Will check it out after I finish up all these rpggggggs I'm at the end of.

[Bebpo]

i can see a few people on my Twatter feed who are hating it in the later stages (something about if you die you get to replay whole 20-30 minute chunks of game?)

Well, guess I'm not playing this then!

Biggest turn-off for me in any game is having to replay large chunks if you screw up.  FF3 with it's NO SAVE POINT IN THE ENTIRE FINAL DUNGEON.  smhh, yeah that's fun when you're 10 and you have 1 game to play all year.

[demi]

There are checkpoints in rooms (it auto-saves when you complete a Shadow Corridor), but they can be pretty far apart. Some rooms don't have one at all (it auto-saves when you complete a room). So if you die by an enemy at the very end, you will have to re-do it all over. It also numbers your shadows every time you die. I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. "Boy #1's shadow has died"

I just restart the game when that happens. I plan on beating it using the first shadow you play as.

[magus]

i can see a few people on my Twatter feed who are hating it in the later stages (something about if you die you get to replay whole 20-30 minute chunks of game?)

Well, guess I'm not playing this then!

Biggest turn-off for me in any game is having to replay large chunks if you screw up.  FF3 with it's NO SAVE POINT IN THE ENTIRE FINAL DUNGEON.  smhh, yeah that's fun when you're 10 and you have 1 game to play all year.

i also forgot to add that before finishing the stage you have to find 3 eyes,they are pretty easy to find but if you miss one you have to backtrack,get it and then return to the ending of the stage again

[Beezy]

Magus, I can never read through your long ass run on sentence posts. It hurts my head.

[magus]

gee i'm sorry
tl;dr version
this game is boring but still give it a chance if you like ico/gimmicky games

[Third]

Just booted this up. It's pretty good. I'm playing this on normal though. Died a few times and had to start all over. Might switch to easy if it gets too frustrating.
No way I'm playing this on hard with those shitty fighting mechanics. But I'm really liking this so far.