Tower of Shades

Just finished the game and I'm going to recommend it but I wavered a lot in my feelings about it - it basically went from 'this is a cool idea and a good message' to 'this is way too warm and fuzzy to be taken seriously'. The reason for that being that either I don't get being meta-ironically-actually-not-ironically cheesy (the devs calling themselves "Lame Jam" and all and i googled for an event called lame jam,nothing came up) or the story (not the message,see next paragraph) has no depth and contradicts itself by basically saying 'if you try hard enough,a miracle will be cast by god (the in-game dev in this case) so that all your dreams will come true'.Also,the main characters dream being $cash money$ is understandable given the poor farmer background,but it's probably just because of my tastes taht the message is also not told well by the story. As for the message itself - I have attempted suicide and have suffered from depression and a bunch of other TMI ♥♥♥♥ for 10 years and what I learned is what the game is saying,only in a much less fluffier way.My way of saying the message of the game is this:If you off yourself,your chances of enjoying life become exactly zero.Yes there's pain and exhaustion from constant struggles,but unlike the in-game dev who gives out magical abilities,it is you and only you who can give yourself respite from them and you need to be able to let the fighting go sometimes.That's the only major flaw i see in this whole 'nevah give up' mentality,which just may be a misunderstanding of it by a lot of people - taking a break is not giving up.That's the magic part I guess - you can heal yourself.

Um jogo Indie curto e bem feito, com uma mensagem legal no final. A experiência vale cada centavo. Recomendado!

Um amigo me presenteou com essa pequena obra de arte. O jogo tem um conceito bem inesperado e é cheio de charme, o mais importante é a mensagem linda que traz. Se tiver passando por algo na sua vida, certamente esse pequeno jogo vai te emocionar.

A good wholesome story.

Quite short. Somewhat underdeveloped concept of repeating a fight over and over. But it's hard to dislike a game with such a positive message, and generally well done art. It's a nice experience, just be aware that you'll permanently complete the game in under an hour. Has me interested in what Lame Jam does next at least

What a DIAMOND in the rough, I had a lot of fun playing the demo.. teaser I guess you could call it. NOT GIVE UP

fofo. me senti abraçada... a experiência vale muito a pena!! obrigada luiz <3

The art style, music, and overall feel of the game are superb in my opinion. But the UX falls kind of flat. For one thing, there is no options tab/setting that I could find anywhere which meant the controls were permanently bound to what they were (which was a little annoying but I could get used to). This also meant the sound and audio levels were fixed too and for me, they were a little loud. I had to turn my entire system volume down to affect it (or the application in Windows sounds - which I don't think I should be needing to do). The gameplay while fun for a little while is rather minimal and un-interactive as it is now. I would say this application reaches it's current price point and can be good for an under an hour completion with low brain power needed. It felt more like watching a movie or story or even somewhat interactive visual novel. If that sounds like your cup of tea, by all means check it out. ---SPOILERS AHEAD--- Now, on to some more spoiler-y talk. The first time I brought the boss down to 1 HP, the effect it did caught me completely off guard and was quite neat in my opinion. However when the save reset to 0% I got really excited that I would be able to play through the entire game/tower and was rather disappointed to watch a somewhat long cutscene of what I could've been doing. Defeating the final (or rather only) boss was not really as satisfying as I would have hoped, with how many deaths and tries I went through to get to this point. The message was good, but I picked this up more thinking it was a whole game and not a message with sparkly effects on it. There are two things that could be added that would make me change my recommendation of this game. However, seeing as how this game is over 4 years old now, I'm not too optimistic. 1. The first thing is it *MUST* have an options tab or something where I can adjust audio if nothing else. But control mapping would be quite beneficial and nice to have too. 2. The second thing that I would want added is the whole game. Now that might sound kind of strange or whatnot, but let me elaborate. When the save gets reset, instead of having a cutscene, let us - the player - play through the game and level up, acquire gear and items and experience all the failures of the character, ourselves, instead of being shown them in a cutscene style content. I'm sure that is a rather large ask, and it doesn't have to be a huge in-depth story/campaign or anything, but I just want to work my way towards this tower and up through each floor, failing all the time yet still getting up and trying again. I think if that was the case, the final boss would have much more of an impact. And I don't mind if all that extra content increased the price or even was released as a DLC that I would need to pay extra for, I would just like that whole game to be playable. Thank you for reading this and I hope things work out!

Ótima experiência, realmente me ajudou.