Shadow Tower

released on Jun 25, 1998

Shadow Tower is a first-person view action role-playing game developed by From Software and released in 1998. It shares many similarities with the King's Field series of games.


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hay un hamster gordo con voz de anciano perverso

Sem dúvida um dos jogos mais assustadores que já joguei.

A ausência de uma OST aumenta demais o nível de horror que esse jogo proporciona. É só você, barulho de seus passos e o barulho das criaturas. Confesso que fiquei travado em um boss e tive que procurar na internet um jeito para passar. Tô pra te dizer que sem arco e flecha esse jogo fica MUITO DIFICIL.

Se você é amante dos jogos da From Software a partir do Demon's Souls vale a pena conferir esse, aqui muito do DNA dos jogos que temos hoje em dia, foi construído.

i hate this game so much, i have beat it two times and I will beat it again. i hate it.
i hate it
its terrible, its absolutely fucked.
i will continue playing it

I hate shadow tower with every inch of my body.

Threw this on my backlog because I saw a clip of it for like 10 seconds on a random youtube video and I thought it looked neat

Then I played it and realized

Its a first person ps1 game

Oh no

I last played this game about 10 years ago, in 2013/early 2014. Yet I remembered very little about it, and replaying it revealed why. Simply put, the way the game is designed makes it hard to remember in the moment, much less over the years. The layout of every level is a fucking pain in the ass (positive connotation), and there are very few landmarks so they blend together and make navigation quite confusing. Add to that the fact that the tower is dark as shit unless you have a Bottle of Light active, and I can see why I only remember enemy designs and nothing about the lay of the land.

With all the weirdness in layouts, design choices, and strange creatures, it's quite a unique game. It really is survival horror King's Field!

But I'd say it overall plays worse than King's Field 1-3, at least what I remember of them (I also haven't played those in 10 years, but I don't plan to replay anytime soon). Bosses suck ass, Hallow Mage can suck my cock for that stupid AoE spam, but the rest of them are just pushovers. Annoying, but pushovers. My biggest complaint is that you have to be bumping into enemies for your melee attacks to hit them at all. I don't know why this was done, considering King's Field 1-3 felt "right" with your weapon's range, but it's annoying.

Still, conquering such an obtuse game and its strange-ass world sure is a uniquely fun time...