Voodootroidvania kino.

>>714932957 (OP)
possibly the greatest remaster to have ever been done

>>714933287
It's astonishing how much cut content was thrown into it

Wait a second, there's a remaster?

>>714933784
Yep, came out a few years ago to, got whole new levels and everything

>>714932957 (OP)
>>714934292
NTA but holy shit it's only 6 bucks right now. Thank you frens.

>>714932957 (OP)
This will be a perfect Steam Deck game. Thanks.

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>>714935092
This guy has one of the scariest levels in any game.

>>714935092
Ed Gein tier serial killer. You don't see too many really fucked in the head villains in games nowadays

Creepiest background music of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsHA1DJ_ya4

>>714935502
Kinda reminds me of hellraiser 2 for some reason.

>>714935347
Technically Gein only killed two people, possibly a couple more, it was more his graverobbing to make items out of the stolen bodies that made him notorious. Home Improvement Killer seems to have killed dozens of people judging by how many bodies are in his lair.

>>714935092
MOMMA SAID EAT YO MEAT!
Possibly the best liveside section in the game.

This level was also freaky

i saw the game in nintendo power but never played it, didnt have too many games or purchase power, preferred rpgs so had more psx/snes games/roms

I remember when I use to relax and just open up the case files and read up on the five. That and looking over the book left behind by the previous Shadowman. A nice break from the gameplay and to really immerse yourself into the world.

>>714936481
Probably for the best. PS1 Shadowman is apparently fairly unplayable. I have it for the N64. Obviously there's the remaster now.

>>714937830
Aww, he's smiling.

Is it actually good or what? And really a metroidvania? The amount of times ive seen people use that word wrongly makes me suspicious, retards unironically call Arkham Asylum a metroidvania just because you get new abilities to find new places. But not only do you not use half of the abilities you acquire, but like only 1 of them is even traversal based, and the rest are too shallow (wow see door thats locked, let me use my tedious hacker device that spells out a word to HACK!)

I mean im willing to give it a chance but id appreciate its level design ACTUALLY being complex and not a meme

>>714939838
yeah it's the best 3D metroid and the traversal is more like classic tomb raider 3

>>714932957 (OP)
I never heard of it before the remaster. I just started playing it, and it's really fun and quite amount of good character writing so far. The gameplay is really fun.

>>714939838
It's pretty good, but I'll admit that enemies can be a bit spongy. You can dual wield weapons so take advantage of that to down foes faster. General exploration is great from dark and moody areas to explore to get dark souls to doing platforming challenges at the sisters temples to inscribe more tattoos across your body to touch flame, walk on coal, and even submerge yourself in lava. None the less voodoo weapons are used to open up some new areas as well.

>>714940953
COME ON SLOWPOKE!

>>714934572
>>714933784
>>714939838
if you're a new player,
whatever you do when you play the remaster

DO NOT play on the new hardmode unless you are already an autistic speedrunner tier player, it will be more frustrating than it's worth

I also wish you could use the free cameralook like you have with mouse+kb with controller on second analog stick

it's weird once you tried mouse to feel that gimped, but playing this is way comfier with a controller

>>714939838
i played it many years ago buy it's easy to get super lost and you're expected to memorize weird locales to backtrack with new abilities to get items that make you stronger

>>714932957 (OP)
WHO DO YOU VOODOO?

>>714933287
This cannot be overstated. All remasters WISH they were as good as Shadow Man. I'd hoped Soul Reaver 1 would get the same treatment, but they opted not to do implement cut stuff.

>>714942279
Oi Mikey, this man don't make a lick of sense.

>>714932957 (OP)
Probably the most underrated game I've ever played. It's wild how it was well known when it came out only to get immediately memory holed. The remaster is unironically perfect.

>>714942339
>but they opted not to do implement cut stuff.
was hoping the opposite woulf happen for tomb raider 6 angel of darkness too, but it seems they barely fixed anything. if shadowmans remaster really is as good as you say, might be worth checking alone just to see what a game with its cut content included is like.
plus ive been dying for a true 3D metroidvania

>>714942535
Happens to a lot of games. They were somewhat well known or very well known and then a decade or so later it was as if it never existed.

>>714942547
In the original iteration the five were suppose to have their own locations. They ended up having three of the five main villains being in the same structure but in different places for it. Remaster gives two of them their unique areas that were out right cut and then some.

>>714942582
True people will pretend this didnt happen to tomb raider because "Lara" (Not the real Lara, the Lara advertised by the retards at Eidos, the Lara retarded reddit retards make triangle tits jokes about, the Lara people treat like a brand name icon like ronald mcdonald or whatever. the Lara that "transcends" tomb raider to become barely associated with the games themselves, and it is reflected in how many people even on /v/ would proudly with zero self awareness tell me how bad and inferior tomb raider was because of tank controls as they go on to dicksuck and praise resident evil.
Its just that tomb raider isnt appreciated as a game. Its "tank controls" werent a gimmick. It wasnt something you could bang your head on to win anyway because the controls were fundamentally simple. You were actually expected to succeed both with wits and dexterity, not just trial and error rote memorization over and over again till you killed the zombies and remembered which door the armour key goes to.
All while being so precise in controls, that the only one to blame, the only one that could ever be responsible for their poor actions. Was you. The player. A retarded dumbfuck manchild who has remained a child from childhood to adulthood could never accept that responsibility...unless the games were remastered and actually the old games were always good because it feeds into the narrative that the new games are le woke and bad, not like sexy superficial Lara that is a product of a deliberate disconnect from the games by people who did not care about the games itself but the brand.

too many retards like self awareness, because theres no self to be aware. no "person" with values and principles. just something, produced, perfectly made for this society, where products and brand are labels and adornments one can wear to have an "identity".

>>714942224
Don't use psychology germs terms you fucking scum. Get the fucknout and nveer return. Allnwrong it has done endorsed by you makes you entirely invalid. You don't deserve to see anything dwcenf.

>>714943821
nta but what the hell is this guy talking about?

The liveside sections are way scarier than the deadside.

>>714944548
I think only the Playrooms would be unsettling. Otherwise the appeal of the liveside sections is you're on the serial killers turf and you don't know what'll happen. I remember how spooked I was when I first got to the NYC apartment complex.

>>714935092
>>714935250
What freaks me out is the fucking canaries. The stage is this nightmarish array of gory rooms and hallways that go through the walls of the building itself, then every once in a while you come across these huge flocks of birds flying around in circles amidst the gore. It's so fucking weird and creepy.

>>714943170
>>714943821
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Scadu Man

>>714942547
>tomb raider 6 angel of darkness
that game is fucked at the core, you'd need to make a whole new game to fix it

>>714932957 (OP)
Are you refering to the religious practice or the graphics card?

>>714933634
Indeed, not simply "this enemy or item was in the data files but not used" restored, they dug up unfinished areas, enemies and items, and finished them before adding them, and even stuff that was cut at an early stage with only concepts documents available, they recreated as best they could and added those too. Just having the two unique areas for the other two members of the Five restored so that all five have their own location instead of three of them being in the Prison alone is a must-have from the remaster.
>>714936627
Ironically, the dreadful PS1 port was the most useful for the remaster as it had the complete source code available.

>>714935502
https://youtu.be/NKLk5hgNlrw

>>714946826
In the expanded voodooverse.

AAAAHHHH

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1578870/Shadowman_Darque_Legacy/

SoonTM

>>714953709
that's about the other shadowman

>>714953784
There's more than one? Is this some ghost rider shit where they all look the same but it's more of a title than anything?

>>714953821
that's the original one. acclaim bought the rights for a while and made a new shadowman comic which is what the game is about. valiant got the rights back and used the original character.

>>714953920
I see, I see

I played this, when I was a kid. My friend was so scared of the game, his mom told my mom to not have us play it anymore. I never got past the first serial killer boss. I was just completely stuck and had no idea what to do. There were no obvious hints. IIRC he was completely invulnerable during the day, so the obvious solutiob would be to visit him during the night, but his place was empty at night or something like that. I wonder what you had to do to kill him.

>>714939838
It's more like one of these mindfuck games, where you dont even know if beating the game is something the game intends you to be able to do.

How good is this game and should I play it?

I have it on ps5. I'm afraid that the jank and overall awkward difficulty will steer me away, although I loved the game on dreamcast back in the day.

kino art style. Really curious about Deadside and how much more they could've done with it. Temple of Blood has interesting skybox visuals

>>714932957 (OP)
Never played it. Is it close to something like powerslave? More like thief? What kind of game is it?

I AM ZE LIZARD KING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCdlopx4Tl8

>>714935502
Yeah that was really fucking unnerving. First time in 25 years or so I actually muted the music in a game for other reasons than not liking it.

>>714956902
I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN

>>714953709
>I just checked the portofolio of this studio. All I can say is, this is gonna be fkn terrible lmao. I do not believe these people can create another 90's Shadow man with a full world / metroidvania - ish gameplay. The only thing they did are a bunch of low rated mobile microtransaction games. Real shame.
>soon
> Delayed until 2nd Quarter 2026

>>714932957 (OP)
Kino game and kino cool nigga
They don't make niggas cool like they did in the 90s

>>714956794
kinda comparable to powerslave I guess but you mostly get new weapons instead of new abilities

>>714956794
More like Tomb Raider

Had a friend at school who would swear by that game. I always thought it looked cool, but that's it, zero interest in playing it. Good to know they did the remaster justice.

>shitload of cool old games under my radar all at the same time when money is tight
>system shock 1/2 remaster
>deus ex port for the soistation
>fucking stalker trilogy too somehow
>all the tomb raider
>I also bent the knee and bought timesplitters 3 and zone of the enders on promo

If I buy this, one second later a blood port will appear for 20 bucks just to taunt me and remind me that my PC is atrociously shit to the point of stuttering when running a build engine game.

>>714954568
It was rated very well back then for the N64/Dreamcast/PC.

funny how shadowman is so unknown you dont even get contrarian /v/aggots spamming the thread screeching about
>DEMAKE
even though they have never even played it in any of its versions

>>714932957 (OP)

I wanted to like the game and actually played it for 16 hours, but I got tired of always using the damn same gun.

The remaster is really great HOWEVER the horror mode fucking sucks, it literally adds nothing but making enemies too stingy so you just have to die over and over again to kill sisters one by one. Seriously, don't be me and play the whole game on Horror, you'll absolutely hate it. Also, I didn't like the upscaled textures of the metro level, they kind of looked like AI generated (surprisingly, they aren't. The older textures look absolutely the same, only in worse quality).
Can't say I loved the cut out "human" levels either, the jungle one was pretty boring. The new Asylum locations are damn gorgeous though. Overall, kino work for a kino game, it's really a shame not many people know about this gem. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>714953920
I still don`t get how they fit in the canon n64 shadowman is either before or after valiant shadowman.

>>714959801
the contrarian faggots are the ones pretending this piece of shit is actually good
I had this as a kid on n64, to this day one of the worst games I've ever played

>>714932957 (OP)
>be 9 yo from a bumfuck town
>parents bring me some ninja turtles horror book and this game as a Christmas gift "Hehe kids love videogames right?"
>fear of dark for several fucking years, can't sleep normally
>"Oh no, anon-chan's growing a psycho, how could this happen!?"

>>714960678

Nigga, N64 version had, like, 70% of the actual game cut out.

>>714960678
Shadowman was well received at the time. By no means is it a perfect game, but it is very worth looking into if you want an action adventure game.

>>714960678
>>714959801
I played the Dreamcast version, i thought that one was fine, how different is it from other versions?

>>714963578
Well the remaster is the only one with the cut content reinstated to the best of the developers ability.

>>714932957 (OP)
So this is not woke?

>>714932957 (OP)
In stuck on the first level after meeting the hat wearing talking snake. I don't know where to go. Help

>>714965057
Did you get many dark souls? Need those to open up sealed gates.

>>714965312
So just kill a bunch of zombies? The game is damn cryptic but I'll give it a shot

>>714964954
Game is set in Louisiana(probably on New Orleans), very well known place for African Voodoo practices

>>714965556
Zombies don't net you dark souls, only life orbs when killed with the shadowgun. You will find govi like what Netti was telling you with your shadowgun. Then you will see near your life meter one of your tabs on your radial dial turned purple. That allows you to open Soul gates up to that point, and charge up your shadowgun.

>>714960678
And i played it on pc in 2001 and immediately grabbed the remaster upon release

Sounds like a (you) problem

>>714960769
Were you scared of the home improvement killer lurking under your bed

>>714965745
I'll give it a shot. Thanks anon. I'm playing the n64 version btw.

>>714932957 (OP)
I had this on my Dreamcast and it was so fucking jank compared to Soul Reaver, but I loved both games so fucking much.

>>714965057
Man if you get stuck on jonti you are in for pain with the labyrinthine levels kek. There is no map

>>714965952
No problem, I personally have the N64 cart as well and initially beat it that way. If you need all the controls just Google up a PDF of the N64 manual.

>>714964954
Depends on your definition of woke. One of the serial killers does make racist comments towards Michael, so if you sympathize with those who hate black people and don't want to see them get killed, then I suppose you can call it woke.

>>714942224
I plan on playing it on my Steam Deck OLED so that's good to hear.

>>714964954
kys brainfried poltard double nigger

https://youtu.be/39cCEC476w0

>>714960438
Well the original game didn't even have difficulty modes so it's better to go on default.

The sisters are awake

>>714939838
-do you like older Tomb Raider-ish gameplay?
-are you interested in the lore surrounding Louisiana Voodoo?
-do you want to explore a hellish underworld?
-do you like gothic poetry?

>>714956902
FOR WE ARE MANY.

>>714966418
I dont remember any of the five calling michael a nigger. Vietnam vet called him a boy, but that is a standard southern tame insult

>>714970654
Racism isn't always displayed through ethnic slurs, and it's usually presented through someone's attitude, whether they're being noticeably hostile or they're making condescending remarks

>>714971437
Why’s that automatically racist? I think most people I meet are complete spastics

>>714971659
We can probably assume that in this instance that it could be racism, though these kinds of attitudes aren't always race related. Could be classism, could be the result of differences in political opinions, could be the way that someone dresses, etc.

As a kid I thought these were lizard men. Now I know better.

>>714973205
I like the ones that is only the upper torso with two heads.

>>714973205
I still have no fucking idea what they are supposed to be; even the artbook didn't do anything.

That said, it's really fucking bullshit that for getting all the dark souls you only get the fucking artbook, and you have to find all the gifts to get the teddy.
Should have been the other way round.

>>714975391
they're half-naked gimps

>>714975391
whatever they are, that green is not their skin, as I assumed as a kid

>>714975758
Wait, you mean the hook hand dudes or the dog-men?

>>714975879

>>714976062
Where did you get that picture of me?

>>714973205
>originally think they were green guys wearing white overalls
>>714976062
>oh

>>714932957 (OP)
Damn, I remember seeing this game on the shop back in the day, I never played it tho