This game is rated ESRB: Everyone 10+ for Animated Blood and Mild Fantasy Violence.
A puzzle platformer developed by Hudson Soft and released for the Wii in 2010, with a Wii U eShop release following in 2016, Lost in Shadow centers on a boy reduced to a shadow who must ascend the shadow-cast face of a tall tower. Gameplay takes place primarily in this two-dimensional shadow plane, where the player navigates platforms formed by the silhouettes of the tower's architecture rather than its physical surfaces. A companion sylph assists by manipulating foreground light sources, repositioning shadows to create new paths or remove obstacles. Enemies inhabit this shadow world as well, adding combat challenges alongside the environmental puzzles. At certain points, the boy can briefly materialize into the three-dimensional foreground world, allowing direct interaction with physical objects rather than their projected forms. The game was released in Europe and Australia under the title A Shadow's Tale.
The game starts with a boy imprisoned and seemingly suspended in mid air. A stranger enters and strikes at the boy with an odd looking sword. Oddly, this does not harm the boy but it does sever the connection between him and his shadow, which the stranger throws from the tower. In the story the player takes the role of the shadow as it works its way through the tower to the top. During this journey the player must stay in the shaded areas and can, for the most part, only interact with the shadows of things and not things themselves. In this quest the player is aided by 'Spangle', a sylph who can sometimes usefully change the angle of light - thus changing the shadows of objects and thus making impossible jumps achievable and unreachable objects accessible.
