Killing enemies earns you a minuscule amount of experience points. As you advance through the game, you'll earn experience points for completing various tasks. However, in a deviation from Metroid, items are not your only way to level up. The most notable of these is the Omega Suit, a special suit of power armor that enhances all of Jason's abilities and can be upgraded with special modules found around the complex. It's heavily built around exploration and finding your way through the mysterious complex while trying to find various items, equipment and power-ups to make yourself more powerful. The game is built like the classic Metroid titles and is a 2-D platformer. As such, you've got a pretty good idea of what to expect from Shadow Complex.
The game isn't shy about this, and everything, from the basic gameplay to the in-game map, is heavily inspired by Nintendo's classic franchise. Shadow Complex is, at heart, a Metroid clone. Claire is captured, and Jason is forced to sneak into the complex and rescue her while attempting to thwart the Restoration's attempt to create a super weapon. The pair ends up at a cave complex, which is secretly home to the Restoration's soldiers. Players are put in control of Jason Fleming, an average fellow who, along with his girlfriend Claire, go on a hiking expedition, blissfully unaware of the events. Shadow Complex opens up just before the VP is assassinated. The President and the Vice President have been assassinated, and the culprits appear to be a strange and highly advanced splinter group called the Progressive Restoration, who seek to take over America and lead it into a new era of glory similar to the Roman Empire. Shadow Complex is set in the same universe as "Ender's Game," author Orson Scott Card's "Empire" novel, which is set in present-day United States. The end result is something that many gamers have been waiting for since Metroid Fusion: a new 2-D Metroid-style game. While unconnected to Nintendo's franchise, it is built around the idea of making a Metroid game that isn't Metroid. Shadow Complex is a love letter to the old-school Metroid franchise in every way. Sadly, Metroid has moved away from its 2-D roots in its recent offerings, with all the most recent games being first-person 3-D titles. Other games that borrowed the formula, like Castlevania, were never quite the same, as they were more focused on combat and RPG elements than the exploration. They're large, open-world games that encourage players to explore and advance at their own pace. Metroid is a franchise that is almost unique.
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