Too few games allow you to take control of an evil being and rip your way through a host of enemies, if you ask me. Sometimes, I don't want to save the friggin damsel in distress, I wanna be the one creating the distress!
I may be getting my wish with Shadows: Awakening, a top-down RPG featuring tactical combat that's coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One that places you in control of the Devourer, a demon that scours the Shadow Realm for the souls of fallen warriors, using their physical bodies to enter the mortal world. With a name like "the Devourer" I am assuming he is one badass demon.
These "puppets" that you inhabit allow you to create a whole party within one entity, with combat, quests and puzzles all requiring that you switch between characters on the fly to combine powers and abilities in different ways. Even the plot of the game can be affected depending on which character you embody, with certain characters offering different approaches to a given situation, i.e., one NPC may react one way depending on who they're speaking to, and act very differently if they are speaking to "someone" else.
Shadows: Awakening promises players more than 40 hours of gameplay spanning two worlds, and continues where Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms (2014) left off.
