Lost in Shadow is an adventure developed by Hudson Soft, released 22 July 2010 on Wii U and Wii.
What Lost in Shadow is
Lost in Shadow is an adventure game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 2010. It was published by Konami. It is available on Wii U and Wii.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game starts with a boy imprisoned and seemingly suspended in mid air. A stranger enters and strikes at the boy with an odd looking sword. Oddly, this does not harm the boy but it does sever the connection between him and his shadow, which the stranger throws from the tower. In the story the player takes the role of the shadow as it works its way through the tower to the top. During this journey the player must stay in the shaded areas and can, for the most part, only interact with the shadows of things and not things themselves. In this quest the player is aided by 'Spangle', a sylph who can sometimes usefully change the angle of light - thus changing the shadows of objects and thus…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lost in Shadow holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Lost in Shadow launched on 22 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition.
Official trailer
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