Your initial death is scuppered by inviting a load of residents to loiter in the area where it will happen. You get to explore the town, then change it by going back in time. This plot allows for some interesting gameplay. But something about this effeminate deity (voiced by Mario's Charles Martinet no less) appears off.Īnd eventually becomes an integral part of the plot. That is not the end of Eike, though as none other than Satan himself gives you aid to solve the mystery and save your life, giving you the ability to travel through time to prevent your murder and unmask your killer. While visiting a quaint German town called Lebensbaum, you were stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant. It's been almost 20 years since I've played it, so I anxiously revisited it to see if my fond memories still hold weight or will they be overshadowed by the ravages of time. I remember being wowed by the graphics, totally immersed in the distinctly Bavarian town and gripped by the time-travelling mystery contained within it. While I managed to beat Konami's quirky adventure game fairly quickly, returning to the likes of TimeSplitters or Tekken Tag Tournament far more often, the images it conjured still managed to stick with me for many, many years. It came a whole four months after the console's November 2000 launch, which I naturally bought immediately after saving up for months. Thanks to the time travel feature, many objectives can be accomplished in a non-linear fashion, which causes the story to branch out and eventually lead to eight different endings, six of which can be achieved during the first playthrough, and two others are unlocked after the other six have been reached.Shadow of Destiny (or Shadow of Memories as it was known as over here) was the third PlayStation 2 game I ever purchased. If Eike fails to reach the target in the allotted time and prevent his assassination, the chapter must be restarted.ĭuring the course of the game, the player will have several options and opportunities to change the future in various ways. Time travel requires energy units, which can be found by exploring the city. Obtaining a crucial item, having a conversation with a particular character or performing another action in the past will prevent Eike from being killed. This is achieved mainly by traveling back in time to different hours, days, years and even centuries. Each chapter has a time limit, during which Eike has to find a way to prevent the assassin from killing him. There are no action elements in the game, and the protagonist has no health bar. Shadow of Memories ( Shadow of Destiny in North America) is an adventure game. To alter the course of events, preventing the stranger from carrying out his murder, Eike will have to travel back in time to the 16th century, meeting people closely related to his own existence and changing the fabric of reality. From that moment on, Eike's miraculously acquired second chance becomes a constant race against time as he tries to escape his fate. Homunculus gives Eike a time travel device and brings him back to life shortly before his murder takes place. A mysterious being known as Homunculus tells Eike that he has been stabbed to death. Suddenly, a tremendous blow obscures the sight from his eyes, and the next thing he can see is a very strange room filled with foreign objects, and a voice speaking to him from nowhere. A young man named Eike Kusch is strolling through the quiet, patriarchal German town of Lebensbaum.
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