Shadow Man

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Most Nintendo 64 adventures asked you to collect stars, notes or feathers. Shadow Man asks you to collect the souls of the dead. Built by Acclaim Studios Teesside and released in 1999, it took a Valiant Comics hero and dropped him into one of the bleakest worlds ever squeezed onto a cartridge: Deadside, the land of the dead, where an Asylum built for the worst killers in history serves a being called Legion. On a console known for bright colors and friendly mascots it was a jolt, and it still feels like nothing else in the library.

You play Michael LeRoi, bonded to the Mask of Shadows by the voodoo priestess Mama Nettie and made the Shadow Man, a guardian standing between Liveside, the world of the living, and the dead world beyond it. Nettie has dreamed of Legion's plan to use the immortal Dark Souls to raise an undead army, with the Five, a ring of serial killers hiding among the living, doing his work. The story's roots reach back to Jack the Ripper and 1888, and the script treats its horror seriously from start to finish. Even Mike's way across is unsettling: he travels into Deadside by way of his dead brother Luke's teddy bear.

Underneath the atmosphere is a sprawling, interconnected design that players now often describe as a 3D Metroidvania. Deadside is a tangled world rather than a menu of stages, and gathering Dark Souls steadily builds Mike's power and opens routes that were sealed off the first time you passed them. Returning to old ground with new strength is the whole rhythm of the game, and finding the way forward rewards patience and a good memory. The developers drew on the decaying industrial sites of northeast England for the look of the place, and Tim Haywood's music keeps the air thick with menace.

The Nintendo 64 version was among the best-received releases of the game, earning a 93% from N64 Magazine, while the PlayStation edition was criticized for its technical performance. Its sequel, Shadow Man: 2econd Coming, skipped Nintendo hardware entirely and went to the PlayStation 2, so this cartridge was the only trip into Deadside N64 owners ever got. It is the one to reach for when you want proof that the system could do real dread, adult storytelling and a world big enough to get lost in.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1999
Publisher
Acclaim Entertainment
Developer
Acclaim Studios Teesside
Players
Single player
About the game

He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.

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