FromSoftware's Weirdest Game — Shadow Tower Abyss

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Shadow Tower Abyss is a spin-off of Fromsoftware's King's Field series. This is one of FromSoftware's most niche games, but does it deserve to be played by more people? And are there things here that showed up in the Souls series later?

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 intro
0:54 background/context
2:11 story/first moments
3:30 dark souls 2...?
4:10 armor/stats
4:56 COMBAT
6:48 journey to the tower
7:29 progression/exploration
8:04 creature design & insect zone
8:37 scarce resources & shops
9:21 poison zone
9:53 gray cavern/first boss
11:00 chill elevator beats to relax/study to
11:06 parasites, tentacles, and patches
12:02 water zone & item burden
13:11 cliff zone & sand zone
14:02 last 3 zones, this is now an FPS
15:03 misc. thoughts/observations
16:04 ending section
16:42 final thoughts
17:13 outro/sponsor

thank you to kevin's computer for the very cool animated intro and knight renders throughout the video:   / kevins_computer  
thank you to Onua for rendering the SFM pose for use in the thumbnail:   / odynom