Okage: Shadow King
| Okage: Shadow King | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Developer(s) | Zener Works SCEI |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Noriyuki Henmi |
| Producer(s) | Tetsuji Yamamoto |
| Designer(s) | Shigeru Goto |
| Programmer(s) | Yasushi Takeda |
| Writer(s) | Masahiko Yokomizo Akira Nemoto |
| Composer(s) | Jun-Ichi Doi Takamitsu Kajikawa Yoshikazu Kawatani Toda Kazuhide Toshiaki Murata |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4 |
| Release |
PlayStation 2 PlayStation 4 |
| Genre(s) | RPG |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Aggregate score | |
|---|---|
| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 70/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 5.83/10 |
| Famitsu | 30/40 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GamePro |    |
| Game Revolution | C |
| GameSpot | 7.8/10 |
| GameSpy | 79% |
| GameZone | 7.8/10 |
| IGN | 7.2/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
Okage: Shadow King, known in Japan as Boku to Maō (ボクと魔王 Boku to Maō?, literally "Me and the Devil King"), is a role-playing video game developed by Zener Works and co-developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on March 15, 2001 in Japan, and October 1, 2001 in North America, exclusively for the PlayStation 2. The game was made available on the PlayStation 4 in March 2016 through the PlayStation Network, as well as being released in Europe for the first time.
In Okage: Shadow King, the player character Ari proceeds through the game by visiting towns, traveling across the overworld and exploring dungeons. The game contains warp pillars that can be used to quick travel to other locations once they have been discovered.
The combat is similar to that of many role-playing games, with characters having health points (HP) and magic points (MP). Battles generally commence when the player touches an enemy on the overworld. In addition to party members engaging in combat, Ari's shadow Stan, although not playable, may use powerful magic attacks on the enemy. Each fight is turned based, and a character can opt to wait in order to perform a more powerful combo attack with other characters. Characters have innate elements that are visible to the player during battle. This determines the types of spells they learn and what spells are strong against which enemies (for instance, lightning magic is strong against ice characters). If at any time during battle, Ari is defeated, it is game over, and the player must return to their last save.
The story begins with an ordinary and overshadowed boy named Ari who lives in the village of Tenel. Ari is asked to pick up bread from the town bakery, where various people tell him that tonight is the night of the circus. At night, the circus finally comes to town and Ari goes to it, not before being stopped by his dad and forced to listen to his dad ramble on about a bottle he found. After Ari goes home after finding out the circus is over, his sister is attacked by a ghost and falls under a pig Latin curse. The family turns the bottle Ari's father found for help, performing a ritual to invoke the power sealed within the bottle. Upon opening the bottle, a "ghostly butler" named James comes out and tells the Ari's family about his master, the Great Evil King "Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV" (or Stan for short). Stan promises to family to bring the sister to normal if one family member is selected to let Stan be apart of their shadow. A "Shadow Contest" occurs and to his shock, Ari wins. Ari allows his shadow to be possessed by Stan in order to break his sister's curse. Annie (the sister) is now cured but now has a pink shadow. That night, Ari ends up having a nightmare about Stan and wakes up crashing on the floor. Ari then leaves his house and finds that everything is normal, until Stan speaks and pops out of Ari's shadow. Stan then forces Ari to destroy Tenel, but no one seems to be scared of Stan, much to his anger. Ari and Stan hear about a treasure in the church basement that is being guarded by a ghost. They fight the ghost and get the treasure, which turns out to be a glass tube. After being praised by the villagers and Stan being laughed at again, Stan and Ari then obtain a "Map o' Evil Kings" from the circus ringmaster, Block. Stan calls James, who tells him that while he was trapped in the bottle, various people stole his powers and became false Evil Kings. Stan starts off on a journey to defeat these Evil Kings, reclaim his stolen powers and conquer the world, dragging Ari along with him.
...
Wikipedia