Cyber Shadow

Very good game inspired in Ninja Gaiden and Megaman heavily. Love the music, gameplay and the challenge. Very good story bits too.

frustrating to play this game enemy bullsh tiny bug bullssh checkpoint long by the betwen take so long have abilty and need backtraking bullsht

This game is the reason i got even balder from tearing what was left of my hair. 10/10 , gonna buy a wig real soon, totally worth it.

为了难而难，把操作复杂化，全是负反馈。

Loved the first level, twas challenging, fast forward, loved it. Then the second level they start throwing flying enemies at you that surround you, which makes it difficult for you to maneouver and attack them, because you can only move left and right, jump, and hit in a narrow foward motion-slash. So you're gonna get hit by those. They also bump the traps that insta-kill you by a ton, and also have enemies that push you with each attack into said traps. The game has a checkpoint system similar to that of Dark Souls and games that try to emulate those titles, so you get stations that serve as your checkpoints, you die? Go all the way back to the previous station. On top of that, they introduce enemies in the second level that take multiple hits to go down, which completely kills the fast paced nature of the game's first level. Just really dissappointing. Vengeful Guardian Moonrider was significantly better at achieving what this sets out to do, imo.

A good retro-style platformer - the strongest points of the game are in the level and enemy design, with a good understanding of the fundamentals that stays consistent through most of the experience. Unfortunately neither are particularly stressed by the difficulty which is on the extreme easy end for this style of game; you'll clock a decent number of deaths in the latter third of the game, when the focus turns to platforming segments with insta-death pits and spikes, and a teleporting dash attack that relies on a dash that feels just a little bit inconsistent - during tight platforming sections it's easy to accidentally hit the forward input AFTER the dash input, and the dash does nothing while neutral so it gets eaten. Personally, I think dash from neutral should trigger dash for as long as the dash button is held, and pressing forward while neutral-dashing should convert to the forward-dashing state. If this were fixed and the game had a hard difficulty mode that flattens the difficulty curve towards the high end (you could probably just add more enemies/more aggressive enemies in this game), it'd improve the game massively, but this will never happen at this point. Actually, one more criticism: the bosses are too simplistic. They tend to follow a basic loop with no variation and attacks are trivial to dodge after you've seen them one time. Don't expect interesting or layered attack patterns with shifting overlap or anything even close to that. You never really get a sense of aggression or murderous intent and that in turn undermines the story presentation. This is actually my second time playing the game. I played it years back on Game Pass, and finally scrounged up the cash to actually buy the game on Steam now. I got 100 deaths back then, and 50 deaths now, so scientifically we can say that my video game prowess has doubled.

Однозначно, лучшая игра про ниндзя за последние лет 30! Игра явно вдохновлена Shadow of the Ninja (она же KAGE), что прослеживается и в визуальном стиле, и в музыке, и в сложности. Игра раскрывается постепенно, начиная с базовых механик под неспешную музыку, погружающую в атмосферу, плавно разгоняется до драйвовых тем, когда каждую локацию проскакиваешь теневым рывком и достигает кульминации на уровне космопорта, когда вообще не касаясь платформ выносишь врагов под героический и эпичный саундтрек. Такое удовольствие ловил только от Ninja Gaiden 3, Shadow of the ninja и Shinobi 3. Штучный проект, в котором хорошо всё: сложность, управление, динамика игры. Эталонный ниндзя платформер.

Fun, but not very complex. If you like ninja gaiden, you'll like this, because it's just ninja gaiden but quite a lot easier. I got it on sale for 11 bucks but honestly i'd wait for a deeper sale.