Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe

まずは公式日本語対応ありがとうございます！！ 【日本人プレイヤー向けの注意！】 日本語化されたタイトルメニューを見て安心しチュートリアルを始めてみたプレイヤーは、最初に「中身まだ英語やんけ！」と驚くかもしれませんが。実はタイトル画面右上に小さくENGと表示されているところをクリックすると言語を日本語に変更できます。英語でチュートリアルクリアまでやって、タイトルに戻ってやっとこれに気づいて脱力しましたので要注意。 ほぼすべてのアクションが対応したキーに割り振られていてそれを覚えるのがけっこう大変ですが、チュートリアルでも繰り返し「ヘルプを何度も確認してね！」と言われますので、わからなければ毎回ヘルプでキーの確認するくらいの気楽さで進めましょう。敵をキルするかスニーキングして避けるかでステージクリア時の得点が変わったり、豊富なクラスとパークでかなり幅の広いキャラビルドができるなど、複雑ですが独特で奥深いシステムでやりごたえがありそうです。日本を舞台にした数少ない伝統的ローグライクなので特に日本人プレイヤーにおすすめです。

There's a lot to learn and explore in this game and whilst it can be initially overwhelming it's also satisfying to discover the systems in the game and the more you play the clearer everything becomes. The tutorial is a must play that really helped introduce the game and there's also extensive help pages explaining how the game works. The stealth mechanic is very interesting and the fact stealth gives more exp than fighting really adds to the identity of the game as a ninja game. The enemy design is really nice, I love reading all the descriptions. The game has a lot of individual keyboard key binds and no native controller support. As someone who can't easily play that way I'm still playing on controller using layered binds with radial menus I made here on steam. It took me ages to set up so I've uploaded my template in case anyone wants to use it. I would recommend adapting it to your own preferences of course!

11月6日のアップデートで日本語対応されました。チュートリアル部分のみ確認しましたが翻訳の精度は高く、日本人から見ても違和感のないもので翻訳の質に関しては問題なさそうです。しかし、マウスオーバーで確認できるステータス効果が英語でしたので翻訳されてない部分がありそうです。 　主人公は朝廷より汚名返上の機会を与えられた罪人。僧侶、陰陽師、浪人、三人の忍者のひとりとなり大江山に蘇ったとされる酒呑童子を討つため死地へ赴きます。酒呑童子をはじめ日本各地、様々な形で伝承される妖怪たちが登場する。日本では風来のシレンでよく知られる伝統的ローグライクと呼ばれるジャンルのゲーム。最近のゲーマーには馴染みのないキーバインドで操作にはテンキーが必要です。 　ダンジョンは自動生成され配置されるイベントも毎度変化し、繰り返しのプレイに刺激を与えてくれる。例えば墓地を荒らしたら祟られたり、卵を盗んだら3匹の河童に囲まれボコられたり、意外なことが起きておもしろい。加えて妖怪たちはそれぞれ所持しているアイテムが異なる。毒や食料を落とす者、なかには日本の歴史的な人物ゆかりの品を落とす者など、発見と探索が楽しい。 　このゲームの欠点は学ぶことが多いところ。ステルスや視覚聴覚、ステータスの作用やパークの効果など最初は文字を読む時間が長いです。与えられる情報の多さに圧倒され、めんどくさく感じます。ですが、学ぶ楽しさもあります。最初は勝てなかったボスもきちんと弱点を知り、ビルドやアイテムを整え対策すれば数ターンで倒せたり、負けて学び試行錯誤する楽しさがある作品です。

This game needs more User Interface customization, looking at the rule book in Black and White hurts my eyes. I understand there is information that needs to be up front to the player, but it can be overwhelming sometimes. When there is a lot of empty space available then why is the Text Size so small to begin with? Doesn't make sense. Look at "The Great Abyss Cyclopean", it has a great user interface with a unique art style to boot. By the way I'm playing in Full Screen 1920 x 1080 pixels if your wondering. You have to get players go past the first hurdle to play your game. I'll keep playing your game, I'll get used to it eventually.

Outstanding game. The real meat of it is the stealth and exp system, both of which work together to reward you for scouting an entire floor and sneaking past enemies without them seeing you (shadowed). It makes every floor of every run engaging, and it does a good job of selling being a ninja. If you're a fan of Tenchu or stealth games, I think this might be one of the best representations of it in this format. Definitely give it a shot.

Can't review because I can't play. Only 2 resolution options: smaller one has text that's too tiny, and larger one cuts things off the screen. What I could experience in the game was unpleasant. I did play Rift Wizard 2 for 130 hours, so I can handle very basic graphics if there's enough other pros to the game. But here, the music is absent most of the time, all characters look the same, it feels unintuitive to play, there's no autoexplore (I think), the mouse can barely be used for anything... I could go on.

Absolutely cracking traditional RL, with a unique setting and mechanics for the genre. Great dev as well. Highly recommend.

This game deserves way more attention in the traditional roguelike community. if you’re into traditional roguelikes, you already know the big titles without me naming them. We’ve seen roguelikes with characters like zombie survivors, sci-fi mutant planet explorers, gun-blazing space mercs, wizards, and every generic fantasy class. We’ve played roguelikes that emphasize crafting and realism, survival, zombies, deep skills and combat mechanics, gunplay, fantasy settings, complex magic, sci-fi exploration, even the ones built around stupid endless grind. But here’s the thing: There hasn’t been a traditional roguelike with a ninja character that really emphasizes stealth mechanics, like vision cones and enemy facing directions Big thanks to the devs. Hope this one climbs high, it deserves a spot among the best in the genre.

Demon slaying traditional roguelike with japanese fantasy. It has stealth focused ninja, ranged/utility focused ninja, seducer/magician ninja, monk, samurai, court magician and an abomination as classes. It feels unbalanced at times and it has significant bugs time to time especially with the Kamikui class (Godeater abomination class). However the developer quickly fixes bugs, and rapidly improves the game. Good and cheap game for what it is.

It's Metal Gear Solid: Rougelike. Oh so very close to greatness! I LOVE the atmosphere and setting, and the game has a host of intriguing play mechanics. The biggest bar to entry is just how un-intuitive the UI is, and how difficult it feels to have full control over your selected character. Still, there's tons of depth to the game, and there's nothing else like it. It looks and sounds great too. Definitely recommended