Players are slowly introduced to the challenges they will be facing through the tower. Here you find the rusty sword and use it to battle enemies. You'll be introduced to spiders and fliers as you climb up through the lower levels.
A Shadow’s Tale Lower Tower Walkthrough
Pillar Path
- Head to the right, watch out for the arrows that shoot toward you as the path dips
- Jump over the spike trap and the third arrow shooter, then continue up to the right
- Avoid the arrow shooter on the stairs and jump over it
- Memory: Just before the doors to the tower
- Continue right to enter the tower
1F
- Head to the right until you come to the drop and vertical platforms
- Use Spangle to rotate the platforms
- Jump up the platforms to the top
- Head to the right and drop down
- Monitor Eye: at the bottom of this section
- Head to the right and have spangle rotate the large bridge
- Jump across the spikes onto the platform, then to the far side
- Enter the Shadow Corridor
- Head to the right into the spiral rotator
- Rotate the level to the right
- Jump up to the right to the second rotator, rotate to the right a second time
- Head to the left and jump up
- Drop down and backtrack to the exit
- Use Spangle to rotate the platforms to the right
- Memory: on the second platform
- Monitor Eye: just past the memory
- Rotate the third platform and jump to the far side
- Continue to the right to obtain the Rusty Sword
- Memory: just past the sword
- Head to the right and kill the spider with your new sword, it has a longer reach than you, so get close and whack it
- Monitor Eye: after the spider
- Memory: after the eye
- Continue to the second floor
2F
- Memory: Head to the right along the path
- Jump up and kill the spider
- Continue to the right and kill 2 more spiders
- Move to the right and up onto the railing and kill the flying enemy
- Memory: just after the flying enemy to the right
- Jump up onto the higher platform and continue to the right
- Kill some more spiders and enter the shadow corridor
- Head to the right, avoid the spurts of shadow flame
- Jump across the to the center platform, then to the right once more onto the moving platform
- Ride the platform up then head to the right
- Avoid the flames and exit the corridor
- Head to the right, kill the flying guy and jump the long pit
- Continue right to the next area
3F-5F
- Head to the right and jump over the pit,
- Continue right and down the ladder to the Shadow Corridor
- Move to the spiral and rotate left
- Move to the next spiral and rotate left
- Head up to the third spiral and rotate right
- Move across to the left to the next spiral and rotate right again
- Run up to the next spiral and rotate right once more
- Jump to the higher platform and rotate right a last time
- Exit the corridor
- To the right is the elevator, which you don’t need to use yet, so head back to the left
- Backtrack up the ladder, then jump to the moving platform
- Ride up and kill the flying enemy, then jump to the next platform
- Ride to the top and head left, killing the spiders
- Monitor Eye: to the left of the first ladder at the top
- Jump to the next ladder and continue climbing
- Head to the right and a light slider will appear, move it to the right
- Jump up onto the platforms and kill the flying enemy
- On the top of the platforms move the slider to the left
- Monitor Eye: right beside you
- Memory: to the right beneath the moving platform
- Jump up onto the moving platform
- Move to the second and third platforms, then jump off at the top to the left
- Kill the spider and shadow spiral (the spiral releases more spiders over time)
- Continue to the left and jump over the pits with the arrow shooters
- Past the pits is another spiral and spiders
- Continue left and jump onto the moving platforms
- Move to the second and third platform then jump off to the right
- Move the slider up when it appears
- Monitor Eye: to the right down the platforms
- Continue right and pull the lever
- Move back to the left and stand on the bottom platform
- Drag the slider all the way to the bottom
- Head right and kill the king spider, then take down the shadow wall
- Continue right to exit the area
6F-9F
- Run to the right along the bridges
- When you get to the blue eyed shadows duck down and crawl to the right beneath them
- Attack the sphere to turn on the arrow shooter
- When the blue eyed spiders are dead attack it again to turn it off
- Crawl back to the left and jump up and over to the right
- Kill the flier and jump over the spikes, then continue right kill the second flier and drop down
- Head left and the wall will drop, kill the spider king that appears to open it back up
- Move to the left through the open door and kill the spider along your path
- Memory: just to the left of the spider
- Use spangle to rotate the large metal grill to your left
- Hit the lever and head to the left
- Hit the second lever on the upper platform, then jump up
- Go to the right up the stairs
- Hit the sphere to turn on the elevator, on the way up you’ll have to avoid the flying arrows and fight off the spiders. Make sure you kill the spiders quickly, you could get in trouble because they spawn quickly.
- Monitor Eye: when you reach the top just to the right
- Head to the right and go up the moving platforms
- Exit them to the left
- Two spiders in front and two behind will spawn here, kill the two on one side quickly so you have some room to maneuver
- Continue left and up the moving platforms, every second platform has a spider on it, so be ready to kill it
- At the top head to the right and you’ll be trapped with king spiders on both sides and a flying guy. Kill all three to advance
- Monitor Eye: to the right as you leave this area
- Ride the moving platform up then jump to the ladder
- Climb the ladder avoiding the arrow shooters on the right wall
- Continue to the left and attack the sphere on the elevator to ride up once more. Here you’ll have to avoid being crushed by the platforms and avoid the arrow shooters
- Monitor Eye: Center top of the elevator
- Memory: to the right of the elevator
- Head to the right and kill the king spider
- Continue to the right to exit this area
