There are five unique endings based on possible paths and decisions made during the game, so Shadow of Destiny must be played though multiple times. Gamers may be mildly disappointed in the story after a single play through the game, but it's likely they've only seen a small percentage of the overall story. Fortunately, Konami does not squander this original narrative conceit and has crafted a tale worthy of the title's epic scope. In a unique twist, Shadow of Destiny is a murder mystery where the detective is also the victim. Solving the mystery means unraveling a tale that involves the 1580s, the early 1900s, 1980, and the present day. The digipad responds to contextual triggers and opens up new time periods to explore. Eike must uncover the fundamental cause behind his many deaths and the reason fate has it in for him on this particular day.
As the Homunculus tells you, however, it's not enough to simply sidestep your death right before it occurs-avoiding one method of death will just leave Eike open to another potential end. He can use the digipad to travel an hour back in time and spread rumors of a performer in the square at the time of his death, and when he returns to the present, the promised performer will be there, a protective crowd will have gathered, and the assassin will be thwarted-for now. Solving the mysteries will take quick thinking and judicious use of the digipad.ĭuring the prologue, for example, Eike is stabbed in an empty town square. The title contains very little "action" per se Eike lacks any sort of life bar and has no means of attack. Shadow of Destiny is a pure adventure game that relies on the strength of its dialogue- and inventory-based puzzles. Once Eike survives past "the fated hour," the next chapter begins, and a new death must be avoided. This adds a constant sense of urgency to each of the chapters. Equipped with this knowledge, he travels through time, speaking to people and gathering items to try to outwit his death before "the fated hour." Time passes simultaneously in the past and present if you spend six minutes exploring the medieval era before returning to your own time, you'll come back six minutes after you first left. The chapter starts anew-but this time, Eike knows how he will die. Each chapter usually begins with Eike meeting his demise and being restored by the Homunculus-as long as Eike perishes in the present day, the Homunculus can give him another chance.
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The game is divided into 10 chapters-eight full chapters, plus a prologue and an epilogue. Armed with this help, he must outwit the many deaths in store for him. Eike is given a helpful time-traveling device called a digipad and sent back to the moments just before his death. A mysterious being known as the Homunculus returns him to life for reasons unknown. Though this is hardly a pleasant way to start the game, Eike is fortunate enough to have supernatural intervention on his side. An unknown assailant stabs him in the back without warning and vanishes, leaving Eike to twitch and die in the street. The game begins with Eike leaving a small European café and walking down the street. And someone-or something-is trying to take it from him. The protagonist, Eike Kusch, has only a single life. Konami's innovative time travel adventure, Shadow of Destiny, handles things differently. The consequences of "dying" are little more than continuing from where you left off or reloading the last save state. The gameplay of most titles has acclimated players to a painless cycle of dying and restoring. It's one of those things gamers have come to expect. Death comes to us all-especially in video games.
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