Way back in 2009, Epic Games published a new ‘Metroidvania’ style Indie game by Chair Entertainment exclusively on the Xbox 360. At the time, classic console-style genres like this were critically endangered, as the influx of Shooters and Sandboxes from the West flooded the market. Yet, instead of releasing this new game, “Shadow Complex,” on multiple platforms, as was discovered to be the most economically sound strategy in the 7th Generation, Epic Games released it exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade, the digital gaming platform tied intrinsically to Patient Zero of the Shooter and Sandbox plague. I really wanted to play this game at the time, and hoped that it would come to PlayStation Network, much like “Braid” and other Indie games before it. It never did.
Six years later,... |
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