Shadow Platformer for Nintendo's Wii

By Adam Riley 14.08.2009 11

Shadow Platformer for Nintendo

Hudson is set to bring Tower of Shadow, an intriguing new platform title, to the Wii console. In Kage no Tou (or Tower of Shadow as it roughly translates into in English) players take the role of a young, invisible boy's shadow who must explore some ruins. Some screenshots have been released on the game's official website, as well as from Famitsu, and can be seen in the media folder below.

As for other details, so far all that is known (thanks to NeoGAF) is Tower of Shadow is a pseudo-platformer reminiscent of Ico in style, taking place in a giant tower that sits in an abandoned land, with players controlling the shadow of a boy as he tries to climb the tower. Gamers can walk on the shadows that platforms cast and avoid the shadows of traps, whilst interacting with shadows to move things in the real world (such as pulling the shadow of a lever to move the real lever). As seen in one of the pieces of art in the media folder below, the young lad has a black butterfly that aids him on his quest, which can move the light source to make jumping / solving puzzles easier.

Image for Shadow Platformer for Nintendo


Image for Shadow Platformer for Nintendo


Image for Shadow Platformer for Nintendo

Presently there is no firm release date, but this will indeed be a retail title and is supposedly around the 30% so far.

Box art for A Shadow's Tale
Also known as

Lost in Shadow

Developer

Hudson

Publisher

Hudson

Genre

2D Platformer

Players

1

C3 Score

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  10/10 (2 Votes)

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Interesting Concept, Could be quite good Smilie

hmmm... maybe there'll be something like moving the light source close or far away to change the size of the character? Anyway the game looks and sounds interesting, I'm wonder what ideas they have in store to surprise players. It definitely sounds like it's going to have some intuitive gameplaySmilie

This looks insanely cool.
As far as concepts go, this is right up there with Galaxy or Portal.
Hope its as good as it looks.

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This reminds me of one of the PS3 games my friend played where you had to alter the camera to get a silhouette to walk on blocks to get to the goal.

Diablo II
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Who said Devs were out of ideas? That is an idea and a half. I hope the competition is taking notes here.

hmmm interesting. I shall keep an eye out for this.

make me think of ICO

Yeah, it looks like ICO, colouring is similar.
But the idea is totally cool! I am hooked right now. Hope the levels are interesting and then I will pick this up for sure. I wonder what made Hudson wake up from their Bomberman trance...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

J Tangle said:
hmmm... maybe there'll be something like moving the light source close or far away to change the size of the character?

I love that idea. Hope they use it.

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I likie the epic-ness in the last screen shot.

Definitely finding the concept very intersting with lots of potential. Can't wait to see more.

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