Tower of Shades

This is not a game so much as a playable pamphlet about believing in yourself. Some people might be receptive to the message, but to me it came off way to heavy-handed to have any impact. Also the whole "get more more skills when you die" is misleading as you actually start with all the skills... In terms of actual gameplay, it took me less than 20 minutes to beat the actual boss fight, which is rather shallow,...

29 found this helpful, 2020-01-26

Tower of Shades is a short, strange little game; it is rather like a short visual novel. I think a lot can be done with the idea that deaths are progression, but that mechanic was underdeveloped. Starting at the final battle seems like another idea worth exploring more than was done here. Since this has a message, I feel it worth mentioning that the message is a rather blunt one. Other games have breached the...

9 found this helpful, 2020-01-31

Embrace failure on the road to your dreams. That's the main theme here. I don't know. I guess that works ok in video games; not so great in skydiving. So maybe it depends where you fall on that continuum. I mean, to start with, what are your dreams? Why are they your dreams? Are you sure they're yours, or are they someone else's, projected onto you? What if your dreams are misguided, the product of a...

2 found this helpful, 2020-11-13