If you come to close to a powerful light source, it will drain your shadow essence. You can hop from shadow to shadow or create shadows away from you to help your movement. The gameplay, when it comes to stealth mechanics, is near perfect.

Getting a Ninja game that is heavily stealth based, instead of being a super high action game, is pretty rare. Although it is fairly cliché, and the writing for dialogue is mediocre, it is good enough to get you from point A to point B. The story is a nice telling of light verses dark, and the cycle of vengeance. This slowly reveals more about the overall plot. You do this by sneaking through multiple levels, either avoiding the many guards and hazards that exist, or by eliminating them one by one.Īs you go through the story, you receive flashbacks of Yamiko’s past every time you recover a talisman. Your goal is to collect all Yamkio’s talismans in order to free her and the Empress. As an Aragami, you are a spirit of vengeance. You are a spirit, summoned by a trapped woman known as Yamiko. Instead of playing as Aragami, you instead play as Hyo or Shinobu. It also comes packaged with Aragami: Nightfall, a prequel of the story set just before the events of the base game. The game is a third person, stealth based action adventure. In Aragami, you take the role of an undead spirit of the same name.

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