Wii #2133 - Kage no Tou (Japan)

[DDJM]

How much dialogue is there?
Do you need to know Japanese to play it?
When is the US release... (probably around Christmas,or even later,somewhere TBA..)
[insert fourth question]

this to anyone who tried ? !

The game is perfectly playable because is multilanguage (on my Wii everything is in italian). Anyways the game sucks for me, just fun for the first 3 minutes then boring as hell. I'd rate it 5/10.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

No storyline details? Is it that hard to get though the game?

 

[elias1234567]

(what region are japanese games? ntsc or pal? and if it's ntsc have anyone tried forcing pal color? or do i have to play this on my plasma tv

) edit: sorry, dumb question.. ntsc-j and i guess i'll have to play it on my plasma tv lol

 

[eur0civ]

Really Great game

 

[glukriek]

Great game so far! But I am already stuck... anyone found the third eye in the level before the tram station (the first one with many ladders)? I must have missed something...

Thanks

 

[ChuckBartowski]

No storyline details? Is it that hard to get though the game?

Basically, some evil dude removed you from your body as a shadow, so basically, your soul is your shadow. You body is trapped at the top of the large tower you see on the cover and you must get there to get it back.
EDIT: Just another thing i wanted to say, the american cover for this is shit compared to this one. I hate how they kiddify the cover... ugh.

 

[atre324]

just beat it, with 98.5% completion (missing 1 memory, #43, on floor 28/29). Took about 8 hours with a little backtracking to find (most) everything.

Unbelievable game, one of my new favorites for wii.

 

[Pattonfiend67]

just beat it, with 98.5% completion (missing 1 memory, #43, on floor 28/29). Took about 8 hours with a little backtracking to find (most) everything.

Unbelievable game, one of my new favorites for wii.

glad to see this game had a big enough impact to get you to join! i have also had a blast with this game. definitely one of a kind!

 

[Hyro-Sama]

just beat it, with 98.5% completion (missing 1 memory, #43, on floor 28/29). Took about 8 hours with a little backtracking to find (most) everything.

Unbelievable game, one of my new favorites for wii.

What's the ending?

Can you post it?

 

[ganons]

The european Releasedate for Lost in Shadow is 07.10.2010.

Here a german Link for prove: http://wii.gaming-universe.de/news/2436.html

sure? 2011 according to gamefaqs http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/971438-lost-in-shadow/data

 

[Hadrian]

This is one of the best games on the Wii! Love it, fans of PC indie games, Flashback and Another World may be into this.

 

[atre324]

just beat it, with 98.5% completion (missing 1 memory, #43, on floor 28/29). Took about 8 hours with a little backtracking to find (most) everything.

Unbelievable game, one of my new favorites for wii.

What's the ending?

Can you post it?

I don't really want to spoil the ending, but I will say it's relatively satisfying even though you can probably guess how it's going to turn out. The story is arguably the weakest part of the game, since there's only 2-3 cutscenes that explain what's going on and the first one doesn't happen until a good hour or two into the game. Still, I suppose the game does benefit from the somewhat straightforward presentation of the story-- the beautiful environments and puzzle platforming are the stars here, and they really do shine. The environments definitely invoke Ico but it never really feels too derivative, as the gameplay is pretty unique.

Checkpoints are generous, the puzzles aren't too difficult but they're enough to keep you constantly engaged, and the combat/simple leveling doesn't really feel like it slows you down although it does get a little repetitive towards the end. I guess I could see a few potential complaints in that there's a little too much backtracking, or the game is a little too easy, but these are relatively minor complaints that don't really detract from what is otherwise a fantastic game.

 

[1Up]

no

 

[Jei]

Great, I've waited a lot for this game, and now that's finally out, it's not booting on my Wii

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Anyone know the song from the opening of the game. Its the part where you start traveling on the mine cart towards the tower and it shows the name of the game

 

[Cyan]

Can we find the memories in the right numerical order, or are we forced to come back later ?
I don't want to go further if I didn't find them all, but I'm at the tram/tower entrance, and I'm missing 2 of them.

Maybe I need to do something with the "strange light monolith" ?
I guess I have to advance and come back later, that's what you are referring to as backtracking ?

 

[Rankio]

Finally got around to trying this.

It looks like a N64 game and plays like a puzzle platformer. It's a novel concept but so far the story is lacking. Not to say you really need a deep story for this.

I'd recommend it to anyone who is looking for something different and is not expecting to be over stimulated by bright colors and a ton of squeaky sounds.

 

[mooyah]

Weird how it comes out in the rest of the world next year when the whole game is already localised...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

The ending was lame. Doesn't even explain anything. Its up on Youtube now.

 

[Hadrian]

Weird how it comes out in the rest of the world next year when the whole game is already localised...

Well there are many different factors, its not just localisation its finding the right time to release a title into these markets. Timing can either make or kill a game.