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Game #3223
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Shadow of Power    View all Top Dogs in this genre
RPG   Console-style

Rating: 8.33 (42 votes)

Shadow of Power box cover

Shadow of Power screenshot
Shadow of Power is a fun, big freeware RPG game in the style of Zelda, combining action elements with standard console-style RPG gaming. The plot is simple but adequate: you are Holger, a young lad who wants to become a hero. Here's the more (melo)dramatic version straight from the official description: "On the day that Holger decided to help the crying girl and wanted to become a hero his story started. His life changed forever. There was no turning back: The man with the golden armor, the box; strange things had found a way into his life, things he was not able to control. But Holger had the feeling that it was not only him who changed... The people around him seemed to be anxious. A shadow seemed to lie over his home land, a mighty shadow that dreaded to impunge [sic] everything that dared to try to stop him."

The game looks and plays very similar to Zelda. You control Holger from an attractive semi-isometric view using a simple interface: hit CTRL to attack, ALT to cast spells, and simply bump into characters to talk to them. You start out with three red hearts representing hit points, but will gain more hearts as you progress. Unlike typical RPGs, there is no complicated statistics in Shadow of Power to keep track of, and the game has a nice balance between inventory-based puzzles and physical ones (e.g. move the boulders in the correct order to retrieve an object). The graphics are colorful, the writing interesting, the gameworld vast, and the tasks nicely varied. A feature I really like is the F1 key, which shows the current task you have to finish. The red arrow at the edge of each screen shows the direction toward the next location you have to travel to, so you will never get lost. These user-friendly features make Shadow of Power even more accessible to beginners, and shows the care that went into creating the game. If you like Zelda, you will find Shadow of Power a wonderful console-style RPG that is well worth your time. Highly recommended!

Reviewed by: Underdogs
Designer: Unknown
Developer: Master Creating
Publisher: Freeware
Year: 1999
Software Copyright: Master Creating
Theme: Anime, Fantasy
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: DOS
Where to get it:
Related Links: Official site (archived)
Links:    
If you like this game, try: Zelda Classic, Mysterious Song, Miura Warrior

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