
You can more or less forget about her right up until you reach the end of the level and have to backtrack to clear a path for her. She will remain hidden in shadows, boxes and haystacks and not cause you any unwarranted hassle. The game right down to its core is essentially a long escort quests, but don’t worry – Lily’s AI is absolutely stellar. The aim on each level is to create path safe for the young girl Lily to pass through unharmed. You will also be able to create traps and decoys too, these more or less will also kill the guard, but in much more interesting ways than just stabbing them in the back, with items such as poison traps and spiked devices. You can even make deaths of guards look like it was an accident, maybe by pulling a box down on their heads, and whilst this does count as you killing them, the guards won’t instantly become alert of any suspicious activity. This will allow you to slip past guards unnoticed and without brutally killing them. You can pull crates, shelves, pretty much anything which can be moved around with your hook. You can use it to grab onto objects in the environment to cause a distraction for the guards. Speaking of the grapple hook, this will also be a key piece of equipment throughout the game. It allows you to plot your next movement precisely without worry of being caught, it also makes clambering up buildings and scaffolding much easier as you can pause time and carefully aim where your next grapple hook is going to land.
#SHADWEN GAME DOES LILY HQVE TO SEE YOU KILL THE GUARDS FULL#
This took me a while to get used to as it can be a little disorienting when you are used to the world just carrying on around you when you are idol, but you soon get used to it and are able to use it to your full advantage. Accidently knock over some glass bottles and alert the guard? Just rewind time and be more careful next time! The game also offers a unique element where if your character is not moving time freezes. The game’s rewind time mechanic allows you to rectify any mistakes you make really easily and you will make a lot of them. If you get caught or detected, you will fail. The main game play in Shadwen is quite simply, remain hidden from enemy guards. Lily follows Shadwen on her adventure throughout the kingdom, and you have to make the moral decision along the way of whether to murder enemy guard’s right in front of this poor little girl’s eyes or find another way around. You play Shadwen as an assassin on a quest to kill the king, but along the way she encounters a little girl, Lily.
