![]() ![]() The story of Cyber Shadow is mostly just to get the ball rolling, though, since this is inspired by NES action platformers. The impetus is a little hollow, but they do flesh things out with character dialogue as the game goes on, sprinkling in some mysticism all the while. Shadow, the player character and main protagonist of the story, awakens in an artificial body and is told by, what appears to be a flying toaster oven, that his ninja clan is on the verge of being wiped out so Shadow needs to go save his Master. The story of Cyber Shadow is a brief, but sullen one: The world, at some point, was taken over by mechanical lifeforms. So is Cyber Shadow a present left by a thief in the night, or is it a cyborg catastrophe that you should avoid? Let’s find out. For better or worse, Cyber Shadow is both a love letter and successor to NES style game design, even going so far as to ignore most of the buttons on modern controllers to give players an old school restriction. Cyber Shadow is almost completely inspired by Ninja Gaiden and old style Castlevania. While Shovel Knight was one part Mega Man and one part Mario, stapled together with incredible level design. ![]() NES throwbacks were extremely popular for a good number of years, but seemed to have crested to a fine point of artisan perfection with Shovel Knight, among many other great retro throwback titles. ![]()
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