The trick is to return to the present at the time of death so that you can come back and try again. If you reach your time of death while in another time, the continuum will short circuit and not even Homonculus can resurrect you. When visiting the past, the clock will still tick in the present. Well, you will die - quite often in fact. It helps that it's pretty hard to out-and-out die. If you do a fair amount of the former you'll find enough energy to do a great amount of the latter. In this way, the game rewards exploration and experimentation. There are 6 very different endings as a result. I never really came close to running out, but I can imagine doing so later on in the game when multiple moments in time can be travelled to in your quest to progress the story. These are found in the game would as glowing green orbs and are usually replenished whenever you travel back to a time period. The top right of the screen will indicate how many energy units you currently hold, with a maximum of 10. If you have the energy, you can travel to any pre-determined moment in time open to you. This is given to you by that devil of indeterminate gender (who'll later introduce themself as Homunculus). Time travel is the crux of the gameplay, and you can travel to select time periods with your digipad. That statue you resurrect, for example, may include you holding up a turn-of-the-millennium cell phone making for some awkwardly brilliant comments from the residents. Many puzzles are solved in different ways, many with equally entertaining outcomes. Depending on the decisions you make, you can either replace it with a nice flower garden or a statue of Eike himself. The next is prevented by making sure a tree isn't planted in the town centre middle ages. Your initial death is scuppered by inviting a load of residents to loiter in the area where it will happen. You get to explore the town, then change it by going back in time. This plot allows for some interesting gameplay.
But something about this effeminate deity (voiced by Mario's Charles Martinet no less) appears off.Īnd eventually becomes an integral part of the plot. That is not the end of Eike, though as none other than Satan himself gives you aid to solve the mystery and save your life, giving you the ability to travel through time to prevent your murder and unmask your killer. While visiting a quaint German town called Lebensbaum, you were stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant. It's been almost 20 years since I've played it, so I anxiously revisited it to see if my fond memories still hold weight or will they be overshadowed by the ravages of time. I remember being wowed by the graphics, totally immersed in the distinctly Bavarian town and gripped by the time-travelling mystery contained within it. While I managed to beat Konami's quirky adventure game fairly quickly, returning to the likes of TimeSplitters or Tekken Tag Tournament far more often, the images it conjured still managed to stick with me for many, many years. It came a whole four months after the console's November 2000 launch, which I naturally bought immediately after saving up for months. Shadow of Destiny (or Shadow of Memories as it was known as over here) was the third PlayStation 2 game I ever purchased.
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