Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe

浪人で全員斬り捨てて初クリアしました！ 絶対おすすめです！ 伝統的ローグライクのエッセンスを存分に詰め込んだ名作です．軽薄な行動にはペナルティがありますが準備すればちゃんとそれが実る良いゲームバランスです． 日本を舞台に作品なので日本人プレイヤーには有名な妖怪や有名人が出てくるのでそれもおすすめです．ちゃんと日本のことを知っている人が作っているんだなと好感がゲームしている間ずっと持てました．

Ultimately, I will say that Shadowed does a wonderful job being a traditional roguelike with stealth elements. A quick summary of pros and cons Pros - A balance of stealth and combat that doesn't overshadow each other - Classes have diverse playstyles - Classes play very different from each other, the only two classes that really have overlap is shinobi and iga, and even then they're pretty different - Information being cleanly displayed, you won't need a wiki for this game comparing to other roguelikes - Fast combat (in terms of turn count) and tactical combat that doesn't feel cheap when you die. If it feels cheap, that's because you didn't read what the enemies do - Diverse enemies with diverse strengths and weaknesses - May not be relevant when you're reading this review, but while this game had support, the dev has listened greatly to community feedback Neutral - Classes aren't balanced comparing to other classes, a class might excel at the same while another might fail - Fatigue system. You have to be careful on how you explore levels and how you use your stronger attacks, because everything, that isn't sitting still doing nothing, makes you tired. - Thresholds. Perks require you to have certain a certain amount of a stat, and the perks are more impactful then the stats. So this typically makes you focus on getting stats to a certain threshold to get perks, and also strength for carry weight. Cons - Each class mostly focuses on one playstyle, diversity exists in the classes but the other playstyles are typically noticeably weaker - It's a trad roguelike, if you aren't aware of what a trad roguelike is, this is your warning - Requires reading, certain enemies have 100% armor, 200% dodge, inflict you with a status that makes you unable to attack them - Game was made by a solo dev, he tried his best but there are bugs/glitches/oversights you'll have to expect from a game made by a solo dev I want to say this review by saying I wanted to give it a positive review the moment I got past the 3rd level, but I wanted to beat the game so ensure the entire game was overall good, to ensure that it's fun all the way through. It did take me a while, but ultimately I was playing a lot with different classes more so then focusing on winning. I should say, for players who play stealth games for a "ghost" playstyle, you can't sneak past every enemy in the game. You have to kill bosses and the final boss requires your build to be good at combat. But for normal stealth enjoyers who sneak around and kill enemies when needed and try to salvage a situation when you get caught, this is perfect.

This game has a great setting. Fans of permadeath should try it, especially those who want to explore something other than a generic dungeon.

伝統的ローグライクが日本語（ほぼ英語版）でプレイ出来るのは嬉しい限りです。 所々、翻訳されていない部分も有りますがプレイには問題ないかと思います。 操作はコントローラーに対応しているがキーボードでの操作になります。 私はフルスクリーン派でフルスクリーンでプレイ出来るのも嬉しい！！ 後、プレイマップが小さくて見ずらいと思う方はオプションメニューで拡大出来ます。 ヘルプメニューも親切丁寧に説明が有り助かります！！ 長く遊べそうな伝統的ローグライクゲームかと思います。 お勧めです！！

I want to like this more than I actually DO like it. Ill start with pros then go to cons. in short though, Quality of Life is way too low IMO. Pros : unique classes, classes tell you what you can expect out of it, as well as a generic difficulty of using them. Build diversity: in addition to the classes being cool you start in a shop, You select what items you want to buy to start you run, letting you have an initial spec to start with which is VERY cool IMO. Finally, lots of skills which made me think I could sink a lot of time into it and have a huge amount of game learning to do which I like in rougelikes. That unfortunately, is all the pros I have. Onto the Cons. 1. Too hard to do anything. And I mean this in the literal sense. Took me 2 hours to figure out how to do a ranged basic attack with the Kurasagami (chain sycle ninja wep). Even up to 3 hours Id say 'how do I use this item, better jump into KEY BINDINGS to figure out how! 2. No right clicking items. Modern games will let you select an item right click to say 'prepair', or 'use'. Not here. No, you need to use 'p' to prepair items to set them to your hotbar. which is differnt from reading scrolls which requires you to USE them, which is different from keys to then USE a ranged attack from a prepaired item. Q is for techniques which is different from magic. In short over the first 3 hours i had to stop every 8 minutes to look at key bindings again. For the record ~ is the key for a normal ranged attack with an equiped melee wep. 3. no tutorial. 4. Too slow paced. It was level 1, a regular enemy and I was the generic easy class who can do everything. I spent 3 turns locked with the enemy and NEITHER of us doing damage to each other because of dodge / block / whatever. Combat that stalls this long on generic enemies is a con to me. Spoiler, he also took many hits to kill. 5. I kept trying to use the Kurasagami as it seemed like a cool wep, it has a basic 2 ranged attack (even if it required a special key i had to search for 10 minutes to find) Except many enemies can move 2 spaces and still hit you... sooooo functionally useless. in the beginning 6. I dont feel like I have enough information upfront. I tried the mage, and you can get talismins at the start but I had no idea how usefull they actually were before using them, leading to test runs where your just figuring out which skills you actually want to start with. In short, I tried to like it more than I actually liked it. The keys are confusing and dont make sense (another example you start with a levelup. What button do you use to open Character panel? C? I? NOPE its Crtl + C.) The interfaces are very bare-bones and needs more accessability such as click drag, or right clicks. I would also like damage previews as I had no idea if the enemy had armor or what my hit chance was. This stuff might not be as bad if it wasnt complex, obtuse, confusing, hiden information, AND HARD. I died on level 1 & 2 a couple times which really doesnt help me learn much.

fun so far! fantastic vibes, great aesthetic, minimal but very readable. honestly i love everything about it ... except the controls. keyboard is fine but mouse support is straight busted. targeting ranged attacks with the mouse flat out doesn't work and mousing over inventory items to read description works maybe 30% of the time. would love another pass on mouse controls (or maybe full controller support, even)

cool, good

An example of a more classic style of roguelike with an emphasis on stealth I haven't personally seen before. It's challenging (as I expect from the genre), but I feel like there's a lot to learn and many ways to handle anything I encounter. It's always nice to see my favorite genre with new ideas and I've always been a sucker for ninjas.

Somebody cooked here

Es uno de los mejores roguelikes que jugué en mi vida. EXCELENTE, divertido, con mecánicas muy interesantes y bien pensadas, con infinito potencial para builds diversos. Si lo pudieran traducir al español sería el mejor juego de ninjas del universo <3 Lo amo!