Shadow Tower Series Retrospective | FromSoftware's First Person Souls Series

Описание

FromSoftware is famous for Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring. Before that, there was King's Field (which also has plenty of retrospectives), but it had a sister series: Shadow Tower and Shadow Tower Abyss. This is a retrospective on the two games of the forgotten franchise to evaluate if they're still worth playing, and if they were good when they released.
I did this deep dive in preparation to review Lunacid, a modern indie game inspired by these.
This video delves deep into the mechanics and systems as I play through both games and reflect on them.


Chapters:
00:00 Intro, History, and Goal
2:40 Shadow Tower Structure and Mechanics
10:00 Earth World, Economy and Systems
24:25 Fire World and Water World
30:26 Illusion World and Monster World
33:54 Ending and Conclusions
35:47 Shadow Tower Abyss Introduction
40:34 Forest Shrine and Hub
45:03 Insect World
49:37 Violent Poison
53:51 White Walls and Scouring Rush
58:33 Waterfall, Cliffs and Red Desert Areas
01:00:03 Dense Fog, Moving Platform and Illusion Castle
01:08:14 Ending and Conclusions