I remember being SO hyped for this game and buying it on the day of release...only to find no one else shared my same excitement 😂 I really appreciate this retrospective!
Leave it to Hikikomori Media to review a game that apparently less people than the population of Easter Island seem to have even heard of. It definitely seems ICO-inspired, and the vibe also reminds me of Nier and Gravity Rush at times.
The main theme sounds like a beginning part of a Japanese math rock song. Imagine percussions kicking in with drumsticks tapping the rim. I really dig it. Comfy song.
Wow! Well done. Once again I happened to find myself in a Wii Hidden Gems Search Wormhole to add new games to the collection. I was not expecting this much detail and backstory from this video but find this game intriguing even though most vids/reviews reveal very little of what the whole package entails. I think I found my next gem. Thanks.
Totally forgot about this one, I really need to pick this game up sometime soon... Great retrospective! And funny too, I don't know if it's intentional but whenever your voice cracks during some jokes it makes the delivery even more hilarious
"Lost In Shadow" & "Majin & The Forsaken Kingdom" were both shamelessly overlooked at the time they were released. Both have Fumito Ueda-like vibes to them & they both deserve to be remastered & physically re-released on today's consoles, right along with "El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron" & "Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow".
Majin is incredible. I 100%d it a few years back. I believe it was running on the Folklore engine and it has so many cool ideas going for it. NEEDS to be added to BC
@@timmadone8930 Yeah, we can continue to hope haha. At least El Shaddai is getting a remaster, so that's one of the four games you mentioned. Anything is possible I suppose haha.
This is a great game, even if you can't find a physical copy, it's worth checking out via emulation because it's just such a unique game with genuine atmosphere.
Finished the video. Man it's wire to say.. but the criminal under powered Nintendo systems like the DS and the Wii, gave some of the best and innovative titles their platform to shine. This video reminded me again... why I finally should play this.
SUCH A BUMMER we'll never see a series come from this game. the teases of lore we received from memories and the few cutscenes were EXTREMELY alluring to me and while it's certainly part of the atmosphere that questions get left unanswered, i definitely feel like more could have been explored in another game. especially since theres multiple towers -- i dont know if that suggests more monsters, but it certainly says a lot about the world. i wouldve been interested to know more
I actually bought this game in 2012 and played little of it. 3 weeks ago i was looking for my old games to show to my 5 year old kid and i found it. Boy am i happy to have a physical copy of it cause we are having as much fun as when i showed him playing Ico. To me its a masterpiece and my boy likes it too.....the scared look on is face he got when purchased by the big rolling hands and feet shadow is priceless to me. You did an honorable review of that game good work☺
I borrowed this from a library years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised. After playing it for a few hours I knew it was a sleeper hit, and like so many other titles that were initially thrown under the bus for whatever superficial reason it went from being discarded in discount bins to being hard as fuck to find. Wii has so many treasures like this, personally one of mine is _FF CC : Crystal Bearers_ (I'm in a minority there though, lol.) Great video man!
@@HikikomoriMedia Lol, yeah. My local library tries to archive all kind of media and you can rent CD's, movies, and video games for every console. I would say it's awesome, but given it's a free service you can imagine how abused those items get. Sticky, and scratched.
I just bought this game in Gamestop for only $7.99. This game is great and unique and I'm so glad I found it. I bet its gonna become a rare game in the near future.
I found this game on a Club Nintendo magazine with a interview with the director and as i learned about it i got unreasonably excited to play it. 12yo me tought it was the best game ever and i haven't played it since, so in my head it still remains as the best game ever
I just found this game the other day! Hard to find now indeed, first time I had seen it in the wild which excited me. Watching this made me glad I found it, looking forward to whenever I get around to playing it per my neverending backlog lol.
I’m a casual gamer, I only play maybe a few hours a week. I like the pace of the game and how I can play a level or 2 and put it down, then come back to it a day or two later.
The Wii was just filled some pretty strong games that kinda flew under the radar (with the exception of Xenoblade), like this, Pandora's Tower (a lot of dusk-time towers in the Wii's twilight years) and The Last Story. Should probably also give Calling another go, it seemed like a proto-modern horror game (a hide and seek simulator mixed with Fatal Frame) on what is essentially a beefed up 6th Gen console, but I found the execution to be a bit "eh", even though there were a few good spooks and the atmosphere was constantly "off" (in a good way). Honestly, I should look into buying more Wii shit in general. It was the last hurrah for AA devs before the fell into the Nexus, leaving us with a metric fuck ton of indie games to gigantic AAA games that use slave labor to make.
I agree with you on that AA note. Made it a priority to scower the Wii's library for some of the last truly bizarre and eccentric console games. The system has more variety than it was given credit for.
@@HikikomoriMedia The Wii is just a femboy PS2 that's living it's best life, and even went so far as to outlive it's feeble, inbred, younger sibling (The WiiU) by being graced with yet another Just Dance game in the year of our Lord, 2019.
honestly the whole general steampunky aesthetic coupled with the main theme being shadows and the soft singing in the soundtrack reminds me more of NieR than ICO edit: the Repose remix at the end of the video took me by surprise I seriously wasn't expecting that. I should've watched the full video before commenting lol
Thanks for giving this game a fair shake. I don't play many video games and haven't played any of the games this one supposedly "rips off" but I really enjoyed Lost in Shadow. I also support your calling out of years old reviews haha. It is a horrible oversight on their part because it was such a cool reveal when you finally become "light boy."
had no idea this game was called tower of shadows in japan. just like fromsoft's shadow tower what a big difference of 2 games with similar names. i really enjoyed this game when i randomly found it and yes i thought the NA boxart was cool but damn the japanese one is so much better. never beat it though but i will probably start over and play it again since i forget where i last left off but as always another fun review to listen to
So this is the mystery Wii game you were talking about. Lost in Shadow make it sound like it connects with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Never even heard of this game. Thug4Life. 2:44 You're reading a script like a book we get it. His description of the game wouldn't sell me on this game. 13:22 Silly Miles, Professional game reviewers never play the game for long so it would be impossible for him to find it. Not my type of game this one but one of your better reviews/videos.
The game wasn't bad, I enjoyed playing it. Just wished the story was a bit more fleshed out, that the stakes grew as you climed. It may have to do that I didn't finish it 100%, and some details were lost to me. Still, gave me good hours of play
Its really sad that a game like this might a lowered score due to... “aesthetic similarities” Oddly enough there is something similar happening for another game right now called Genshin impact that that has been compared to Breath of the Wild. In both cases I keep thinking, why is this a problem?
Yeah, I just started researching 7th gen games as I kinda stopped playing console games halfway through 6th gen. Lots of chaff to sort through between the PS2 and WII libraries, but some real amazing gems too. Your videos have basically filled up half my eBay watchlist.
The game looks interesting but with all the bloom and filters along with the small size of the character, it's kind of difficult to see what you're doing or what's going on at certain points. I bet a remaster would fix that
God, E3 still has some awkward and terrible moments but I want another Konami '10. Also, I remember seeing the trailer for this game, always wanting to play it, but never did.
i literally just played through this game this summer and thought it was a really good experience. funny coincidence that I find this video about it that was just uploaded.
@@HikikomoriMedia cool! by the way, nice coverage on the game. I've only heard of Lost in Shadow from Yahtzee and he covered it in a similar way to the other reviewers you mentioned
@@alteregoreview yeah my last video had a little of the skip issue too. Had to order a new cpu. Also, I think I remember that ZP. Maybe he even used an ICO character in it too? I am going to go back and watch it now.
I ALMOST got this game from a Walmart for $10 in 2012. Only problem is I was with a friend and didn't bring enough with me so I never got to buy it :( Always thought about this game over the years, always wondered how the later parts played out, and I was just thinking about it again yesterday, looked to see how much it was currently going for, and then I just happen to see Hikiko did a video on it! Just got done watching it and I really missed out on what seems to be a really solid game. I never read any reviews for the game so I didn't know people disliked it or did all of those comparisons to Prince of Persia and ICO. Also, I'm definitely going to look for those Marble games that got mentioned, they look really neat.
The controls for this game feel sooooo stiff & stifled. The concept is amazing, it’s just the game itself isn’t that good 💀💀💀 The combat is barebones, the jumping mechanic is probably the worst I’ve ever felt, when fighting an enemy you have to be RIGHT next to them to even touch there hitbox. I had high hopes for this game & was severely let down
I remember being SO hyped for this game and buying it on the day of release...only to find no one else shared my same excitement 😂 I really appreciate this retrospective!
I am still surprised it never found a home on another platform. The wii control scheme was minimal at best & could have been adapted.
It would’ve done well on the PlayStation and the Xbox.
In germany it was released as "Der Schattenläufer und die Rätsel des Dunklen Turms" which translates to Shadowrunner and the riddle of the dark tower.
Pretty awesome title!
Lol that's an awesome title, so weird how they just kept changing the name in each region.
@@grizzlywhisker Yep, in Spanish they called it "La Torre de las Sombras" that means The tower of shadows
Shout-out to the 27 other people who've played this game, it's amazing
liked it
This game's ost has some nice jams!
I started laughing so hard at the font part, haha! I swear, the effort You put in Your videos is one of the best i have ever seen!
I wanted to play this game for a decade. Finally got it on Wii U and loved it, probably one of my top 10 games of all time, it's that good.
Needs a port big time
@@HikikomoriMedia Considering it was on Wii, the graphics were, and still are, gorgeous. It's a masterpiece.
Leave it to Hikikomori Media to review a game that apparently less people than the population of Easter Island seem to have even heard of. It definitely seems ICO-inspired, and the vibe also reminds me of Nier and Gravity Rush at times.
Great video Hikiko
reminding me of ICO is what made me buy this game when it first came out
same here, the weird ambient puzzle platform stuff reminded me of ICO and that's why I wanted to check it out lol.
The main theme sounds like a beginning part of a Japanese math rock song. Imagine percussions kicking in with drumsticks tapping the rim.
I really dig it. Comfy song.
It was composed by Gutevolk. She has a lot of music with neat progressions similar to math rock. She's on UA-cam now.
Wow! Well done. Once again I happened to find myself in a Wii Hidden Gems Search Wormhole to add new games to the collection. I was not expecting this much detail and backstory from this video but find this game intriguing even though most vids/reviews reveal very little of what the whole package entails. I think I found my next gem. Thanks.
Totally forgot about this one, I really need to pick this game up sometime soon...
Great retrospective! And funny too, I don't know if it's intentional but whenever your voice cracks during some jokes it makes the delivery even more hilarious
"Lost In Shadow" & "Majin & The Forsaken Kingdom" were both shamelessly overlooked at the time they were released. Both have Fumito Ueda-like vibes to them & they both deserve to be remastered & physically re-released on today's consoles, right along with "El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron" & "Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow".
Majin is incredible. I 100%d it a few years back. I believe it was running on the Folklore engine and it has so many cool ideas going for it. NEEDS to be added to BC
@@HikikomoriMedia it's good, idk about incredible, but it's definitely refreshing among that era's titles.
I’ve been trying to remember the name of Majin for a long time now. Thank you very much for mentioning it!
@@TheBlueLink3 You're welcome. It's starting to look like that game will never get remastered & re-released. But you never know.
@@timmadone8930 Yeah, we can continue to hope haha. At least El Shaddai is getting a remaster, so that's one of the four games you mentioned. Anything is possible I suppose haha.
This is a great game, even if you can't find a physical copy, it's worth checking out via emulation because it's just such a unique game with genuine atmosphere.
Finished the video. Man it's wire to say.. but the criminal under powered Nintendo systems like the DS and the Wii, gave some of the best and innovative titles their platform to shine.
This video reminded me again... why I finally should play this.
SUCH A BUMMER we'll never see a series come from this game. the teases of lore we received from memories and the few cutscenes were EXTREMELY alluring to me and while it's certainly part of the atmosphere that questions get left unanswered, i definitely feel like more could have been explored in another game. especially since theres multiple towers -- i dont know if that suggests more monsters, but it certainly says a lot about the world. i wouldve been interested to know more
I actually bought this game in 2012 and played little of it. 3 weeks ago i was looking for my old games to show to my 5 year old kid and i found it. Boy am i happy to have a physical copy of it cause we are having as much fun as when i showed him playing Ico. To me its a masterpiece and my boy likes it too.....the scared look on is face he got when purchased by the big rolling hands and feet shadow is priceless to me. You did an honorable review of that game good work☺
I never finished this game but I beat most of it. I cannot describe how sad and beautiful this game is even without a complex story or ost.
This is great. Thanks for making this
I borrowed this from a library years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised. After playing it for a few hours I knew it was a sleeper hit, and like so many other titles that were initially thrown under the bus for whatever superficial reason it went from being discarded in discount bins to being hard as fuck to find. Wii has so many treasures like this, personally one of mine is _FF CC : Crystal Bearers_ (I'm in a minority there though, lol.) Great video man!
You can rent games from the library!?
@@HikikomoriMedia Lol, yeah. My local library tries to archive all kind of media and you can rent CD's, movies, and video games for every console. I would say it's awesome, but given it's a free service you can imagine how abused those items get. Sticky, and scratched.
awesome videos
I just bought this game in Gamestop for only $7.99. This game is great and unique and I'm so glad I found it. I bet its gonna become a rare game in the near future.
I found this game on a Club Nintendo magazine with a interview with the director and as i learned about it i got unreasonably excited to play it. 12yo me tought it was the best game ever and i haven't played it since, so in my head it still remains as the best game ever
ok. Love the vibe of this game
what a shitshow Konami put at E3 2010
from a guy on vallium reading his essay, to a couple of wrestlers slapping themselves.
I just found this game the other day! Hard to find now indeed, first time I had seen it in the wild which excited me. Watching this made me glad I found it, looking forward to whenever I get around to playing it per my neverending backlog lol.
Definitely gonna keep an eye out for this one. Nice work!
I’m a casual gamer, I only play maybe a few hours a week. I like the pace of the game and how I can play a level or 2 and put it down, then come back to it a day or two later.
The Wii was just filled some pretty strong games that kinda flew under the radar (with the exception of Xenoblade), like this, Pandora's Tower (a lot of dusk-time towers in the Wii's twilight years) and The Last Story. Should probably also give Calling another go, it seemed like a proto-modern horror game (a hide and seek simulator mixed with Fatal Frame) on what is essentially a beefed up 6th Gen console, but I found the execution to be a bit "eh", even though there were a few good spooks and the atmosphere was constantly "off" (in a good way).
Honestly, I should look into buying more Wii shit in general. It was the last hurrah for AA devs before the fell into the Nexus, leaving us with a metric fuck ton of indie games to gigantic AAA games that use slave labor to make.
I agree with you on that AA note. Made it a priority to scower the Wii's library for some of the last truly bizarre and eccentric console games. The system has more variety than it was given credit for.
@@HikikomoriMedia The Wii is just a femboy PS2 that's living it's best life, and even went so far as to outlive it's feeble, inbred, younger sibling (The WiiU) by being graced with yet another Just Dance game in the year of our Lord, 2019.
Well that reminded me that i still haven't played this one.
I really should, i know.
oh man, I forgot about that SGC video - too good
I felt it fit with the rant.
honestly the whole general steampunky aesthetic coupled with the main theme being shadows and the soft singing in the soundtrack reminds me more of NieR than ICO
edit: the Repose remix at the end of the video took me by surprise I seriously wasn't expecting that. I should've watched the full video before commenting lol
Thanks for giving this game a fair shake. I don't play many video games and haven't played any of the games this one supposedly "rips off" but I really enjoyed Lost in Shadow. I also support your calling out of years old reviews haha. It is a horrible oversight on their part because it was such a cool reveal when you finally become "light boy."
thanks! I mentioned it again recently in my Nintendo Wii video I released a couple months back. More people should know
welp thx for the info. was reading comments on a top wii game list and remembered seeing this on the nintendo channel (or nintendo week?)
Sure thing!
I vaguely remember this game. It looks decent enough.
had no idea this game was called tower of shadows in japan. just like fromsoft's shadow tower what a big difference of 2 games with similar names.
i really enjoyed this game when i randomly found it and yes i thought the NA boxart was cool but damn the japanese one is so much better. never beat it though but i will probably start over and play it again since i forget where i last left off but as always another fun review to listen to
This game looks prime for a remaster that will never happen. Oh well, could always just emulate and upscale it but it's not the same dammit!
So this is the mystery Wii game you were talking about. Lost in Shadow make it sound like it connects with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Never even heard of this game. Thug4Life. 2:44 You're reading a script like a book we get it. His description of the game wouldn't sell me on this game. 13:22 Silly Miles, Professional game reviewers never play the game for long so it would be impossible for him to find it. Not my type of game this one but one of your better reviews/videos.
2:22 me reading my PowerPoint at school
this guy is my personal sleeping aid
Shoot I remember that I have this game...even if it's gaining dust.
I remember playing this game but I was so bad at it that I couldn't get past the first few floors.. I wanted funny light boy ;-;
eYEcO
For some reason, this game has the title music to Mario Kart 64 on the cartridge.
What?
The game wasn't bad, I enjoyed playing it. Just wished the story was a bit more fleshed out, that the stakes grew as you climed. It may have to do that I didn't finish it 100%, and some details were lost to me. Still, gave me good hours of play
Its really sad that a game like this might a lowered score due to... “aesthetic similarities”
Oddly enough there is something similar happening for another game right now called Genshin impact that that has been compared to Breath of the Wild. In both cases I keep thinking, why is this a problem?
This video made me buy Marble Saga :O
You won't be disappointed at all! That level editor is a timesink, but surprisingly deep
Yeah, I just started researching 7th gen games as I kinda stopped playing console games halfway through 6th gen. Lots of chaff to sort through between the PS2 and WII libraries, but some real amazing gems too. Your videos have basically filled up half my eBay watchlist.
The game looks interesting but with all the bloom and filters along with the small size of the character, it's kind of difficult to see what you're doing or what's going on at certain points. I bet a remaster would fix that
God, E3 still has some awkward and terrible moments but I want another Konami '10.
Also, I remember seeing the trailer for this game, always wanting to play it, but never did.
A small "thing" I'm getting from some of your videos is that game journalists have always sucked and it's not just a recent thing.
i literally just played through this game this summer and thought it was a really good experience. funny coincidence that I find this video about it that was just uploaded.
some of the footage skips unfortunately
This was rendered on a dying processor. That issue has been fixed now.
@@HikikomoriMedia cool! by the way, nice coverage on the game. I've only heard of Lost in Shadow from Yahtzee and he covered it in a similar way to the other reviewers you mentioned
@@alteregoreview yeah my last video had a little of the skip issue too. Had to order a new cpu. Also, I think I remember that ZP. Maybe he even used an ICO character in it too? I am going to go back and watch it now.
I ALMOST got this game from a Walmart for $10 in 2012.
Only problem is I was with a friend and didn't bring enough with me so I never got to buy it :(
Always thought about this game over the years, always wondered how the later parts played out, and I was just thinking about it again yesterday, looked to see how much it was currently going for, and then I just happen to see Hikiko did a video on it!
Just got done watching it and I really missed out on what seems to be a really solid game. I never read any reviews for the game so I didn't know people disliked it or did all of those comparisons to Prince of Persia and ICO.
Also, I'm definitely going to look for those Marble games that got mentioned, they look really neat.
The controls for this game feel sooooo stiff & stifled.
The concept is amazing, it’s just the game itself isn’t that good 💀💀💀
The combat is barebones, the jumping mechanic is probably the worst I’ve ever felt, when fighting an enemy you have to be RIGHT next to them to even touch there hitbox.
I had high hopes for this game & was severely let down