You'll take plenty of deaths on your first play, but never really get punished for it. You get the feeling of playing an NES game brought into line with modern gamers' expectations of challenge. So far the difficulty feels similar to Shovel Knight. I'm sure it will ramp up nicely later and have some tough areas. You won't be just sloppily mashing your way through the bosses after the first one or two which bodes well.
Bosses seem well designed and do require learning their basic patterns and patiently choosing your shots. Not so much that the stage design is a cakewalk, but it's the amount of hits you can take and the forgiving checkpoint system that keep you going. Only judging by the first three stages the game feels fairly easy. For the first one, I quickly discovered a super easy way to cheese it and end the fight quickly, and the guy subsequently commented on me fighting without honor for doing so. For example you can destroy the little robots that are sent out to give you exposition dialogue, and there seems to be unique things to go for with the stage bosses at least. I'm not sure what the consequences are, if there are any, but there seems to be a few things you can do which the game makes notice of. So as of what I've seen so far, no notion of a 1CC clear, though it feels like it is built with one in mind, and I'm curious to see what will be unlocked after the first clear. It has a few secrets to go for, and it doesn't seem to have a lives system as such, at least not playing on Normal Mode. It really feels like a game designed specifically for me and my tastes.
The level design is nice, and the enemies are very well designed, with some good ideas thrown in. The sword slash is short but precise, and feels good, most zakos go down in one hit. It's a bit more platforming focused (think Shatterhand or Mega Man) but it has the right elements. It's not ninja gaiden to the core, but never pretended to be that either. I've only just quickly gone through the first two stages (each stage is fairly substantial with both a boss and a miniboss), and so far I can already tell it's hitting all the right notes for me. Jump up and enter the door above, and you start the fight with Laserbrain.I think this game deserves its own thread now that it's out. To save essence, don’t buy the Item Synthesis at this pod since you are not using your sword in the fight. Laserbrain is the second boss fight you will have in Cyber Shadow, coming in chapter two slightly after you can spend essence on service pods (checkpoints) to get health, spirit, and the Blade Extend bonus when you step on the pod you paid.
Cyber shadow achievements how to#
Called Long Distance, the description reads, “Defeat Laserbrain without hitting it with your sword.” Here is how to get the Long Distance achievement/trophy in Cyber Shadow. However, it is very doable once you learn the boss’s movements, and you cannot come back to do this fight once you beat it without starting a new save, so be sure to do this while you are there. One feat centers on the second boss you will face and could potentially have you thinking it is impossible on your first try. The game’s challenge sinks over in the achievements for it as well, called feats in-game.
If you showed this game to someone in the late ’80s, they would tell you this game was being played on the NES. Cyber Shadow brings back many old school 2D game charm in many facets of its gameplay.
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