Overshadow

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Overshadow is another student project that's been dumped on Steam by Digipen. Once more it looks like the whole class failed. This time we have a single screen 2D top down PvP arena brawler with cartoony graphics and a mobile-app/console game look and feel, which is going to leave a bad taste with any PC gamer. Gameplay consists of bashing other players and bashing a "spirit" thing in the middle of the screen, the player that does this becomes a "boss" that the other players must fight. It's a variation on the boring, lazy, tired, overdone top down brawler genre, but not a variation anyone wanted, or that adds anything significant to the experience. Once more it looks like Digipen failed to instruct the students on the difference between the PC gaming elite and console peasants and their gaming appliances. Upon launching this, PC gamers will immediately be insulted by the demand that a console peasant children's toy controller must be used. But KB+M works anyway, surprising nobody. On par with this, resolution and controls are locked, driving this far below acceptable standards for a modern PC game. The quality here is very low, with only 2D graphics, the appearance of a m…

anyone want to play (:

Игра Overshadow – это мрачное и атмосферное приключение, погружающее игрока в мир психоделического ужаса и психологического триллера. Уникальный визуальный стиль, напоминающий кошмарный сон, сразу же захватывает внимание. Сюжет полон загадок и неоднозначных мотивов, заставляющих гадать о происходящем до самого финала. Геймплей, сосредоточенный на исследовании и решении головоломок, умело сочетается с элементами хоррора. Разработчики мастерски играют со светом и тенью, создавая чувство постоянного напряжения и страха. Музыкальное сопровождение идеально дополняет атмосферу, усиливая чувство тревоги и безысходности. Однако, игра может показаться несколько запутанной и сложной для восприятия из-за своей абстрактной подачи сюжета. Не всем придется по вкусу такая нелинейность и необходимость самостоятельно собирать воедино общую картину происходящего. Тем не менее, если вы ищете необычный и запоминающийся опыт в жанре хоррора, Overshadow, безусловно, заслуживает вашего внимания. Это игра, которая останется в вашей памяти надолго.

#%&@! I don't have friends, so my playthrough turned into more of a dissection than a playthrough. I don't want that to come across as wholly different from my standard playstyle; I'm always looking to just find whatever I find fun; whether it's explicitly given to me or I have to implicitly draw it out for myself isn't really a damnable sentence for a game, after all the most popular games by far are "sandboxes" and "open worlds" where the storytelling is linked directly to the emergent behavior of the player. I attempted to use two control schemes at once to fight myself, but seeing as I only had a single controller and KBM needs both hands, all I had left was to wait out the rounds. I encountered a "soft-lock" glitch where my character got eaten by the book at the same moment they got taken to become the new monster. The next round seemed to be stuck until I killed the other player on top of me, at which point it began properly. Between the victory screen and the credits there is only one instance of music, so use it wisely; if I let the music end in either case, it will never play again. The game is a seemingly straightforward Nerve experience, a king-of-the-hill free-for-all …

[h1]Before I played Overshadow, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]