“Lost in Shadow” gives us glimpses of a great idea, like shadows cast upon the wall of a cave, but doesn’t live up to its ideal form. The game begins with a cross between Darth Vader and the Man in the Iron Mask severing a boy from his shadow, and tossing the shadow off the top of an enormous tower. The shadow picks itself up to ascend the tower and rejoin its body, but finds something peculiar: As a shadow, it can’t walk on hard objects — only their shadows. That’s right, kids — the action of “Lost in Shadow” takes place not in the foreground, but on the shadows the foreground casts on the background

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