Shadwen Reviews

"Oh boy, oh boy I can't wait to play half of the game pressing the right bumper!" The curse of the Mostly Positive game continues.... So I thought I would give this a chance because it looked cool and it was a stealth game with a girl but alas, I should've heed the reviews. There isn't much of a game here. The story is pathetic, like you're just going to kill a king and and an orphaned girl follows you for some reason. That's it. Horrible idea for time to stop when you stand still. Why can't you just control time at will like Prince of Persia? The game is too repetitive. There's only one, YES ONE bad guy BUT 2/3 in now they have armor so you have to kill them from certain height. The stages are all the same, look the same and play the same. It's always pulling some barrel or crate with a rope, or letting them see you then knife them in the back and out the body away. There's some light crafting and looting but that was completely unnecessary. 95% of the time you will use your trusty knife anyways. Sadly so you won't get to use your cool weapons because a) there's not enough "material" to go around and b) it's easier to kill them with the knife anyways. You will most certainly encounter two soldiers and if you kill one with a weapon the other will always go on alert and then it's game over. I also hate how they see you and within a second BOOM! it's game over! They are psychos and of course they always carry their trusty crossbow to kill you immediately and trust me that thing will zoom in on you with perfect accuracy and perfect speed. In the end, if you're looking to scratch that stealth itch, there are much better AAA and indie games to quench that thirst.