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Tower of Shadow, A Shadow Walking Adventure From Hudson

By Laura . August 12, 2009 . 7:16am

Tower of Shadow, A Shadow Walking Adventure From Hudson The Obsidian Tower is a mysterious place, as you can probably tell from its name, but what is even more mysterious is the boy, climbing the maze within to reach the top.  The boy isn’t really a boy.  He’s the shadow of one.

 

Tower of Shadow is a new game from Hudson for the Wii.  The protagonist, is a nameless shadow of a boy, literally.  The boy can interact with the shadows cast by the real objects, but only with the shadows.  The real world is inconsequential except for how it affect the shadows.  By interacting with shadows he can control real objects.  For example, the boy can pull the shadow of a lever, causing the real lever to move, which results in activating machinery.  This casts new shadows, which allows him to continue on new shadowy ground.

 

The boy also has a helper who will probably be the key to solving many of the mysteries in the game.  Unlike the boy, Black Swallowtail can interact with real objects, which may create new shadows that allow the boy to move on.  For example she can take a light and shine it upon the shadows to make them grow.

 

Hudson has not set a release date for Tower of Shadow in Japan.

 

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  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuronoa Kuronoa

    I’ll bite. The concept is great and there’s could be some really interesting puzzles here.

    • MadMirko

      Me too. Concept and art style alone have sold me on this one.

      • pressstart

        You can count me in too. For some reason, I got an Ico vibe from it. Hated that game though. Enough to never finish it.

  • lostinblue

    HUD needs work, the modeling for the boy needs work, despite not having a face, seems like a peter pan reject, and they should give that buttlerfly, fairy or whatever it is… a contrasting color, like butterflies in persona 4, or something.

    But yeah, good seeing Hudson doing stuff like this.

    • http://myanimelist.net/profile/Kuronoa Kuronoa

      Last I read in the IGN article, it was 30% done though so something may change.

  • Chow

    Did the title change since a few weeks ago? I could’ve sworn it was called something similar to that, but not exactly.

    This seems very ICO-ish, especially with the known elements of the game.

    • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

      Technically “Tower of Shadow” is a temporary name, but it hasn’t changed and I guess it depends how you rearrange the kanji. It could be Shadow Tower too.

  • http://meikiyou.deviantart.com meikiyou

    this is game as art!!!

  • rebirfh

    I too got an ICO vibe if made correctly this can be a great game

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