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Shape Shifter

Shape Shifter is a side-scrolling action game with platforming and light role-playing elements. Much of the game consists of traversing hostile areas, fighting regular enemies on the way and defeating bosses…

29 September 1992

Shape Shifter is an adventure developed by ICOM Simulations, released 29 September 1992 on Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

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What Shape Shifter is

Shape Shifter is an adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released in 1992. It was published by Turbo Technologies. It is available on Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Far below the three moons that hang in the midnight sky lies the land of Krelion. And the people of this land live in an age of perfect peace and prosperity known as the Age of Light, a time by a band of powerful wizards known as the Ring of Five. But, on the 11th moon of the Age of Light, a dark wave of evil has begun to sweep across the land, leaving a wide path of destructing in its wake. And the Ring of Five, which has protected Krelion for centuries untold has suddenly vanished from the land. Their fate is left in the unholy hands of three evil beings from the shadow realm known as the Dark Ones. Now the mid-summer equinox is almost at hand. And with this event, the Dark Ones will…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Shape Shifter come out?
Shape Shifter was released on 29 September 1992 for Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

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