Shmadow

[h1]"Shrinking dot in darkness"[/h1] Does shmadow mean "mad shadow"? However this game is a simplistic space shooter and bullet hell. You fly through dark space and only your shots can light it up. Black bubbles everwhere. Then appear the bosses in a row. Like rotating red and yellow bullet spreading twisters, rotating lasers or bubble spaceworms. One is changing gravity so that all background bubbles come from one side. Tho the game is flat 2D and the powerups are not very useful or there isn't even a decent tutorial the game makes fun for a short while. If you get hit your dot shrinks down to a minimum dot. A nice game mechanic. Achievements just count from normal difficulty up to nightmare. Local coop included, steam leaderboards and a techno loop soundtrack. Nothing special but quite enjoyable.

A very shadowish bullet hell. 1 hour full of fun with light and shadow.

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Wow. I don't think I've seen a gimmick backfire so badly. Pros: -Multiple powers -Leaderboards Cons: -The Light Mechanic. This idea isn't good for twitched based action games. I'll Admit it's an interesting Idea, but It needs to be handle better. -Glitched Graphics for Windows users, THAT DON'T HAVE A GRAPHICS CARD. Which is ridiculous since this game looks and runs like a flash game. What's more insulting is that with the same set up on MAC and LINUX, This game runs fine. HOW DID YOU MESS UP SO BADLY! -Graphics look bland -Uninspired enemies -Unfair difficulty. Enemies and Bullets come out of nowhere. I don't care what price this game is. A bad game does not deserve a high recommendation. Though to be fair to the Devs. This is a hard game to pull off.

If I had to describe Shmadow in a few words I'd have to say it's as if bullet hells, endless runners, and sidescrollers had a child. There isn't very much to say about this game but let's talk about it anyway. You're a ball of light who shoots other balls of various colors. Your character and your bullets produce light allowing you to see through the darkness. The more damage you take the less light you produce making it harder to survive. You get get an attack that recharges over a short cooldown and you pickup powerups which can also be used to assist you. You fight bosses and your objective is to make it as far as you can without losing. That's pretty much all there is to say about Shmadow. The Good [list] [*]One of the easiest achievement hunts you'll ever see. [*]You can play through the entire game and refund it if you don't enjoy it due to the game being so short. [*]You don't need a controller to do well (I got every achievement using keyboard and mouse). [*]Due to trading car...

A pretty nice game. After 20 minutes of play my head went shwoooo...

[b]Quick Breakdown:[/b] A twin stick shooter, wherein you play as a ball of light, fending for oneself amidst the darkness. [b]Length:[/b] 15+ minutes [b]Genre:[/b] Arcade / Twin Stick Shooter [b]Score:[/b] 5/10 [b]Full Review:[/b] There’s not a whole lot to this game; you play as a ball of light in a world of shadows, except for the background, everything in the world is dark. You illuminate your surroundings with your bullets and with the ball of light that serves essentially as your vessel. Plenty of random blobs of darkness hurtle toward you like asteroids, and will darken, and even blackout the area until destroyed or passed. Occasionally you face bosses, whom will drop various power-ups. That’s really all there is to the game, and that’s the trouble with it; I want to like this game, but there’s just not enough to it. The shadow gimmick remind me a bit of [i]Limbo[/i] (though the art isn’t nearly to that caliber), and it’s kinda a neat one, but there’s very litt...

I don't get the postive reviews at all. This game is an exercise in torture: it's a simple mouse and keyboard shooter, but the majority of your enemies are little black dots that you can't actually see until they're half a pixel away from your character. This means that when you try and fight and dodge the real enemies you end up randomly dying. Combine that with your view radius getting smaller if you get hit means that it actually gets harder if you make a mistake. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't want to play a game just to die from (virtually) invisible enemies every time it starts getting interesting. Plus the soundtrack is terrible. Avoid, just avoid.

This game is pretty great! You fly around doing shmup stuff, and its really hard. So, if you like avoid-ers or shmups, this is a game for you.

Controls are a complete mess. Impossible to work on a keyboard, and downright useless on a Logitech controller.