The game itself is surprisingly clever and enjoyable too, with some very intricate level design, some slick bad guys and plenty of top notch platforming fun. Right from the start, Cold Shadow grabs your attention with its typically detailed and colorful visuals, which capture the spirit of the Disney cartoons and which lend the game much of its personality.
You can switch between the Maui Mallard and Ninja Maui, which gives you access to different weapons and abilities, including a close combat staff and the ability to jump off walls, and which makes the gameplay subtly different depending on how you play as. Most of the game is a traditional side scrolling platformer, but there are some interesting gameplay mechanics here which mix things up a bit. This one finds him in his guise as the Maui Mallard, a tough detective, and he's on the trail of a lost idol, and which takes him into some supremely creepy environments, and you'll be facing off against plenty of voodoo-style bad guys. Cold Shadow is perhaps not quite up to the standards of these superb efforts but it's a surprisingly enjoyable effort that does a good job of utilizing its grumpy star. This is important.The Disney license has been used in countless games over the years, with some classic platformers like Lion King and Aladdin being offered up as a result. And even getting as far as the ritual will mean surviving countless trials with your body and mind intact. As well as the ritual, you must also determine which god, out of three possible candidates, is the invader, as banishing the wrong one will result in failure.
You must travel from town to town, exploring dungeons and exterminating the minions of the shadow, in order to gather the four components of the Banishment Ritual, a four-rune mantra which, when cast at Stonehenge, will stop the evil god from entering our realm.īut it’s not as simple as that. But these events are merely the herald for the arrival of a terrifying ancient god, due to appear at Stonehenge in seventy-two hours. The country has been plunged into a mysterious darkness, from which hideous creatures are spawning, spreading chaos from town to town. The Consuming Shadow is a procedurally-generated horror adventure game with a Lovecraftian theme and gameplay inspired by such things as FTL: Faster Than Light, Eternal Darkness, and the board game Arkham Horror. He’s looking for feedback on features to change or to add, so help him out, visit the site, and download the game. Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has written a new game and he’s offering the beta version of it to you to download and play.
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