![]() ![]() Games like Cyber Shadow need to have top notch music and luckily it succeeds. The music blaring in your ears as you work through perfecting a particular level helps to make each stage a little bit more pleasant to struggle in. Cyber Shadow’s music was composed by Pentadrangle and is a perfect fit for Cyber Shadow’s tone and fast paced gameplay. The art and music sounds like I just booted up an old NES with the 8-bit art and dark shades of blue, green, and red being the predominate colors. The lines are overly dramatic with little humor and I’m almost surprised there isn’t a line of toys to coincide with the brand. The writing can come off with a Saturday morning cartoon vibe but in the worst possible way with characters over emphasizing their actions or just being overly chummy. The ending sequence is also incredibly fulfilling from a gameplay perspective, more so than from a story perspective. For instance, if the game would have had more characters that would have fleshed out the world rather than the lifeless terminals it could have given more sense of a living world.Įither way, the basic plot gives enough for a world to be built out of and I hope that more can be done with the property in the future because I think there is a lot of potential for the world. However, I can’t help but see the potential that the game could have had and looking back I feel more could have been done to expand on the lore of the game beyond a few terminals. The story is more or less a reason to give Shadow his gameplay mechanics and a really enjoyable final boss battle and that’s all a story really has to do in a game like this. The game became more about whether I could overcome the obstacles in my way rather than any narrative thread but that’s okay. ![]() It never engaged me like other text based stories have done like in Hollow Knight but that might have been because I was not all that interested after struggling on one section of a chapter for over an hour. ![]() One of my favorite characters isn’t even remotely human (look out for the motorcycle sequence in the latter half of the game) but I have to admit that I didn’t really care for the overall plot that much. I love the juxtaposition between tradition and technology for both good, evil and everything in between. The premise for Cyber Shadow is phenomenal. Their plan is to take the powers of people within the ninja clan and combine them with the technology being provided by the new master. Upon revival, Shadow must find where his master’s spirit lies, defeat his old rival who happens to be following a new master. Cyber Shadow takes a lot of inspiration from classic games like Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden so that should give you some indication where the difficulty sits with this game.Īctually, Cyber Shadow is a lot like if Ninja Gaiden and Megan Man had a child as the gameplay is all about navigating increasingly difficult sections of platforming and enemy resistance while constantly being given new upgrades for Shadow.Ĭyber Shadow is about a cybernetic ninja who was brought back to life by the AI of his old master. Developers are still struggling to overcome some of the challenges of the pandemic but last month we were able to see the release of several highly anticipated games including Cyber Shadow which was developed by just one man, Aarne Hunziker. ![]()
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