Back when developers were rewarded by being more experimental and innovative, a little known game called Shadow of destiny was created.
Listen in as I dissect this game down to its deeper themes and alchemical influences as well as why we don’t see too many games like this in the current game market.
Link to Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YucYQqr8IejBXHi48E3QPrhhNghJ1MPnSIV8iDh0-Nk
1. Lack of Experimental Game Mechanics: 0:00 – 2:38
2. Shadow of Destiny Intro: 2:39 – 3:51
3. Synopsis (Spoiler-Free): 3:52 – 5:12
4. Gameplay: 5:13 – 6:28
5. Wait… Isn’t This Like…: 6:29 – 7:05
6. Differences Between Shadow and CT: 7:06 – 8:26
7. Sponsor: 8:27 – 8:51
8. Narrative and Negatives: 8:52 – 11:24
9. End of Review: 11:25 – 12:12
10. ALCHEMY: 12:13 – 17:15
11. Survey: 17:16 – 18:08
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Music Used:
– Quiet (Our Life : Beginnings and Always)
– Dissociative Identity (Killer 7)
– Character Selection – Demon's Souls OST
– Those Who Have Given Everything (Chrono Trigger)
– Tender (FLAWLE$$)
– Mist (Parasite Eve 2)
potential spoiler:
I think this guy keeps killing himself and even at the start of the game he is the killer and the alien being is the true enemy.How dare you use YouTube to make me think and expand my vocabulary I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!!
this game is pretty popular, but it's Konami so i guess its as forgotten as all of their non franchise IPs
Thank you, you just added another game I need to play now.
question do you know a book that is more or less an overview for a broad understanding of alchemy I honestly have no idea where to start?
a video game was oddly put in one of the packet texts for my philosophy course you will never guess what they picked for messed up video games.
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Please do more games like shadows of destiny
What's that game at 2:03?
Very interesting. So many lost and forgotten gems. There was so much thought and care put into games from this time. The mid-late 90s/early 2000s was truly a magical time for gaming. We've gained so much these days with production value/graphics, but we lost something along the way.
whats the game on 2:05??
I noticed an influx in demand for this game on eBay today and figured a YouTube video must have been made about it. Nice! It's a hard one to find and probably going to be a $50 game now.
Another great video as always. I would love for you to do something on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice!
You should cover the Amnesia games: (only The Dark Descent, and Justine… the rest are… eh, and don’t really have any alchemy.)
4:20 7:10 9:45
The whole start rips off blood omen hard
Holy time warp. I haven't played this since high school. I saw it in a game informer mag & bought it as soon as I saw it in stores. My friends used to say that I played the weirdest stuff they never heard of.
I’ve watched some gameplay of this years ago and only now remembered. It may have been a random longplay, didn’t see the whole game though.
A modern reimagining of this one would be grate. Even make a stellar TV show.
Woo I played this game looooong ago. If I remember correctly you do not need to worry about spoilers… it got at least 6 endings, if I'm not mistaken.
LMAO Oh man. I remember I was running back and forth checking and combing over every inch of Silent Hill 2 on OG Xbox in like 2004 trying to figure out what to do to progress and was beating my head on the metaphorical brick wall the game had entombed me in. So I just started using every item over every place where text came up, after 2 hours of exasperated scouring over every place I had been to multiple times. Feeling dejected and hopeless, and a little angry, using items at places that made zero sense, I came to the chute finally, went through using what I had feeling stupid for trying, then the juice, I was told through text, dislodged…the key? Whatever I needed to get into the apartment complex, it's been a while lol.
I felt like a genius! Even though there was no logical thought process that brought about solving the conundrum. Lol
I played this game waaaaay back! I'm so glad you finally got to check it out.
Shadow of Memories is super awesome…handsdown best story driven game to date. I love the different twists that come to light with each of the possible endings.
The seemingly disparate plot points coming together reminds me of The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. That was the first time I experienced this technique and it blew my mind. I’ve never really experienced it since then so thank you for the recommendation!
Konami didn't really forget this till after it's spiritual successor on the Nintendo DS (Time Hollow) was released.
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I LOVE this game! I used to play it over and over, just mesmerized by the slight and mind blowing differences the choices resulted in. I always wanted to know more about the plot and lore and I wanted MORE! Thank you for doing a video on this game!
Glad to see him covering hidden gems like this. I wish there was more of this. There are so many insane titles from this era that just got left behind as a result of "Just make shit everyone is already familiar with." Over and over. I've played thousands of games and when trying modern titles, 95% of them just feel like repeats or knock offs. I still find crazy, unique, fun new titles for Ps2, Gamecube and Xbox to this day. Mostly PS2 but there is still nuggets of innovation and uniqueness that followed here and there as games progressed through the years.
Huh, it's not everyday I see a POSITIVE look at this game. Usually, I just see people crap on this game, and I never understood why. It's just one of those times where the hate just doesn't make sense to me.
It's actually refreshing to see someone actually do a positive look at Shadow of Destiny for a change.