Разработчик: Okugi Studio
Описание
Will you be able to drive the fog of oblivion away and help the boy recover his memory?
Your many companions’ light will be your best ally in this world distorted by fear and mystery.
Key Features
- A unique Tower Defense
- A captivating reversed narrative
- Great freedom of action and tactics
- Gorgeous procedural fog
- Awesome Boss fights
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP Service Pack 3
- Processor: Dual-Core processor Intel 2Ghz or AMD 2.8Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 1.2 GB free space
- Video Card: 512MB and Shader Model 3.0 (ATI 3870, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS)
- DirectX®: 9.0c
- Sound: DirectX 9.0 sound device
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel double core/quad-core 2.66Ghz or AMD 3.26Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 1.2 GB free space
- Video Card: 1GB and Shader Model 3.0
(ATI 4870, Nvidia GeForce 260)
- Additional:Quicktime 7 or later
Отзывы пользователей
Couldn't remember why I hid this game from my account then checked the discussions and got reminded that it forces us to open our computers to hackers by autoinstalling Quicktime.
If a game can't run without such a dangerous requirement, it shouldn't be on Steam.
Ensure that your eyes are nearly 100% closed while playing this game, and you will be well-prepared. Trust me, this strategy has proven to be highly effective for me in this game. It appears that my primary purpose for being born is to reach this moment and give this game a try. Please make arrangements for a casket now.
Lots of cool ideas for a tower defense game. Namely the MMO-style boss fights, fog of war mechanic and unique bonus stages. The difficulty spikes can be discouraging at first, but knowing which spells and companions to pick and upgrade is the key to get through the campaign. It's a solid experience.
Game is asking for QuickTime to be installed before it runs. Installing QuickTime doesn't fix the issue of the game not starting.
That's before you even look at the massive security QuickTime as old unsupported software with security flaws published.
The only real con I have with this game is that everything is sooooo slooooooow. There are only two speeds, very slow and less slow - and even with them I have tons of time just sitting and waiting.
Even the map and menus are slow, lots of unnecessarily slow animations for things you have to see many, many times.
Other than that, the game is fine - well made, runs well on my machine, cute, and balanced - but sooooo slow.
Never buy this game, it needs specific version of QuickTime, it will not work without this bullcrap. Plus even tho Quick Time has exploits and will put your PC at risk.
apart from the idea of installing something else than the game, like quicktime, and still had issue trying to play it.... i waited long itme, and i thought, hey, lets try see if it works yet.... (from windows 8, to windows 10) and i still can't play the game....
iam sure it would be fun to play.... if you get past the.... you need to install this correctly in this way something something....
Completely unstable on Windows 10. Also it depends on Apple Quick Time and won't run without it. Crashes before the first level ends due to some Quicktime bug. Not recommended, even if it was free.
Did not enjoy this game the slightest. Frustrating gameplay that more or less forces you to do some "Tower Juggeling" where you have to sell towers and build in new spots on almost every level. To bad for a game that has a very nice artstyle that i enjoyed.
Requires you to install quicktime, but doesn't work with current version.
So if you already have quicktime you have to uninstall it and then install QTLite to get this game to run.
If you actually need to have quicktime installed for something else to function (iTunes), QTLite will break that.
Even GFWL games gave me less problems than this game.
IF you can get it to run, it's a decent tower defense game.
But I'd take Pixeljunk Monsters, Kingdom Rush, or even Super Sanctum TD over this,
since you can actually just install those and have them work.
Nice game to own for tower defence type games, nice game mechanics gets taxing later on, but in all a good game to play. Reccommend it to Tower Defence fans!
EDIT 11/2019: DO NOT BUY! Uses Quicktime which has been obsolete for some time and is vulnerable to exploit, potentially. Cant continue to recommend a game that requires obsolete and vulnerable accessory software.
Interesting tower defense title. The story is vaguely creepy as you are reclaiming a little boy's memories from "Shad'o" a murky mess of shadow and gloom. This is one of the more challenging TD titles Ive played. As with every other game - its worth buying, just not at full price. Wait for a sale and enjoy.
Surprisingly well made tower defense game. The story is weird and the (I'm guessing) French to English translation seems pretty bad, but that's easy to overlook considering how well done the gameplay is.
If you like tower defense games, this is highly recommended.
Shad’O:
+/+ Unique setting and storytelling style.
+/+ Unique use of FOW (fog of war) with towers allowing vision.
+/+ Solid graphics, music, and sound effects for a TD.
+/+ ‘Special battles’ that unlock rewards.
+/+ Fun boss fights.
+/- Very generic & limited tower options.
+/- Upgrade choices are permanent.
+/- Magic system requires you to actively collect mana.
+/- Towers have health and can be killed (they can also be healed).
-/- Lack of stats for levels limits replay value or the desire to perform well.
-/- Only two difficulty options. Shad’O is not hard enough.
-/- Game can be beat using only 3-4 out of the 10 towers (with the last boss requiring only two towers to beat).
-/- Voice Acting.
-/- Requires you to download QuickTime or QT Lite in order to play.
Verdict: 6/10. The style is what stands out most in Shad’O as well as the few boss fights. But it’s a very generic TD game and probably only worth a play through for hardcore TD fans desperate for anything new.
Fun tower defense. Requires replaying some of the scenarios until the mobs' abilities are learned.
Two minor cons are apparent: Quicktime installation is required and the poor English translation of a somewhat mediocre over-arching storyline detracts from the game slightly, however the basic concept of fighting inside one's nightmares is otherwise well executed and lends itself to interesting environments.
- Skinny from the Fat B*stard (curator link)
I'm sitting in the middle on this one. Made from a small indie team they certainly did a decent job. Probably the best story ever in TD game. However, some small issues can make the game somewhat tedious.
There is no speed up button. But in saying this a lot of the maps are covered by fog of war so that until you place a tower you cannot see. This makes the hardest difficulty quite interesting and therefor you probably don't want to speed things up.
Slightly different towers, but not a very good variety. Decent amount of levels and the challenge is what you expect. Normal is pretty easy and hard can be fairly hard. However, you can let quite a few enemies get through as your memory (think defense grid cores) is one collective. So you can pass the level even if say 15 guys get through. As long as your memory has the tiniest bit of health left, no problem.
Personally i would recommend for TD junkies only and or people that enjoy a somewhat decent story. (Nothing major but i found it quite interesting after finishing hard mode on all the levels.
Price isn't too bad, so if you see on sale and you enjoy TD games i'd say grab it.
There are few games that I find myself unwilling and unable to complete. This is one of them. It has an interesting mechanic of territory control (pushing shadows back with your imaginary tower-friends), and it creates a nice sombre tone with its cut-scene art.
However, it is ultimately a tower defense game that lacks player-friendliness and failed to have an impact on me. Skill points that you allocate are absolutely permanent. If you find yourself unhappy or unable to progress because of your skills, you'll have to restart the game from scratch to repick your skills. Further, winning battles leaves me unsatisfied, and I'm more irritated than distraught when I lose my units, little yellow plushies with no personality. The cut-scene art is nice, but the inexpert voice-acting can be grating if you pay attention to it.
Lastly, installing this game means you have to install Quicktime as well. This is how the game plays its cutscenes. It's pointed out in the requirements (har har as if we read those), but if you have the same hate on Apple I've noticed in some Steam threads, then this is just icing on the "Try something else" cake. I only recommend this game to hardcore tower-defense game enthusiasts who enjoy skill-picking with no backtracking, and who do not listen to cut-scenes.
A fairly decent TD, but it hasn't aged well and comes with issues for those using modern hardware thanks to the outdated and abandoned Quicktime software.
When you first install the game and get the error message, click the link to the troubleshooting page.
Uninstall everything Apple and Quicktime and then download and install the QT Lite. This fixed it for me at least.
My hardware:
Win 10
Ryzen 7 3800X
16GB 3600mhz RAM
RX 5700 XT
(game installed on an NVME SSD)
Display driver Adrenalin 21.4.1
I'm not much of a tower defence player, but the quaint style of this game got me interested. However this is not for the faint hearted, one the easiest setting I struggled my way through the game and was unable to finish all the special missions.
The level design and gameplay is great, I throughly enjoyed it. The story is interesting and what seems obvious at first turns out not to be so obvious. The voice acting is a little off-kilter but quirkishly amusing.
Tower defense with fog, and bonus challenge maps.
Terrible acting, pretty graphics, you know, we've seen it all before.
[Rating: 65/100]
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Okugi Studio |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 68 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 49% положительных (39) |