It’s a nice little add-on for those times when you decide to go item hunting. Upgrades that you have already found are show up as dots. And any secrets or upgrades (which give you more health, better armour, higher ammo capacity, etc) are shown as a question mark in the relevant areas of the map. Combine that with level design that frequently borders on genius and you often get some great bits that require creative thinking and demand exploration.Īnother handy little thing on which you will come to rely a lot alongside your torch is the map. For instance, green coloured gates (they only light up green if you point the torch at it) require grenade blasts to open them, yellow ones need a firearm, etc.
Shine it on any gate, grate or window and it will tell you which weapon you will need to pass through. You start off with a handy torch and aside from being a light source in the dark areas of the game, it doubles up as a useful pointer. For example, doors that can be opened by Foam will remain closed for you until you get the Foam gun. You explore a huge underground base and as you get more upgrades, different parts of the base open up for you.
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At its core, it’s a game heavily inspired by the Metroid series (when it was still in its 2D days). The gameplay, though, is where it shines. The story might have worked if they had gone overboard with it like an 80’s action film but as it stands, it is definitely the weak part of an otherwise outstanding game. Fleming, who is channelling Jack Bauer by the way of Chuck Norris, sets out on a quest to get the girl back and thwart the villains. Only problem is they accidentally stumble on to an underground military base, where the evil doers, who are out to destroy the USA, capture his girlfriend. The story is simple enough – Jason Fleming (seriously, that’s his name) goes out hiking with his girlfriend. So for the sake of brevity, let’s call Shadow Complex a 2D action-adventure.
So where do I fit Shadow Complex? The closest I can come to is the part of your head that’s always curious, that wants to know what happens next the explorer in you that’s always eager to look at new territory, or the kid in you that wants to get his hands on the next cool toy. Whereas something like Braid shows some much needed love to the quiet, thinking part of you. Different games tickle different parts of you, something like Halo caresses the part of you that wants to get some mindless killing done. As I start writing this I am still trying to figure out which part of my brain Shadow Complex appealed so much to.
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