Shadow Complex - new Metroidvania style title on XBLA

[BIZ]

Oh wooooooooooooooow. That looks incredible. The hyper run they showed off in that video...I...just...

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[RadarScope1]

Destructoid video interview/look from Comic Con.

http://www.destructoid.com/sdcc-shadow- ... 1285.phtml

BTW, they have announced the price: $15 (1200 spacebucks). IMO, that's a good price.

[MrPopo]

So after seeing some gameplay videos this game has grown on me. Though it seems to remind me a bit more of Zillion.

[Dakinggamer87]

I saw it at Comic-Con and saw E3 footage and this game looks awesome.. I can't wait!!!

[mista057]

I would love to see more games like this on the big consoles. Most of the good platformers like this have only appeared on GBA and GBDS. I hope the prices do not get out of hand. If you give me lots of game, replay value, and fun I will pay a little more. Just don't expect me to buy without playing a demo and waiting for a review to hear how much content is within.

[RadarScope1]

From what we've seen so far I think $15 seems pretty fair. You'll at least be reading some impressions here from me. My only problem I have RROD and I'm waiting for the supposed 360 price drop before taking my shit back to Best Buy.

[RadarScope1]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-ex- ... x/17-1156/

GREAT Quick Look vid from Giant Bomb - Jeff and Brad playing the beginning of the game with producer Donald Mustard. Nice talk about influences and explanation of the gameplay.

[RadarScope1]

Reviews rolling in today. A few (of my) trusted sources:

Giant Bomb (Gerstman) - 5/5 stars
http://www.giantbomb.com/shadow-complex ... 6/reviews/

Upon completing Shadow Complex--a task that took me close to five hours--the first thing I did was reload my final save so I could go back and collect all of the items I missed. Three hours later, I had cleared the game with 100 percent of the items collected. With that out of the way, I started over on a harder difficulty setting. That's the nature of Chair Entertainment's side-scrolling action-adventure. There's enough to it to probably satisfy people who only like to complete single-player games once, but it's set up in a way that really inspires you to play it again and again.

Eurogamer - 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shado ... iew?page=2

At well over 800MB, we're a far cry from Microsoft's original vision of sub-50MB entertainment snacks on Xbox Live Arcade. But despite this substantial bulk, Shadow Complex would never have been made were it not for the evolution of the download service and the growth of its limits. It's too slim and risky a prospect for a contemporary boxed release, yet too broad and ambitious for a quick fix.

1UP (Jeremy Parish of Retronauts) - B
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3175605&p=4

To call Shadow Complex inspired by the Metroid series would be a terrible slander to the word "inspiration." It's not so much that the developer, Chair, looked to Super Metroid for ideas as it is that they took a sheet of wax paper and did a rubbing of Samus Aran's entire career. It's a clone, albeit one for these modern times -- which is to say, it uses polygons instead of sprites, and it's a reasonably-priced download game for Xbox Live. In practically every other way, though, it's completely identical to Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, down to the powers you earn and the map structure.

[MrPopo]

So after reading those reviews I suspect that when you beat the game in three hours or less your main character removes his facial mask and reveals he's actually a woman. You know, like Faria but in reverse.