Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩

About Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩

Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩 is a first-person horror game by Space Onigiri Game. It came out on Steam for Windows on March 29, 2024, then on Nintendo Switch on October 31, 2024 and on PS5 in 2026, with the console versions published by Regista. It follows Shadow Corridor with a new story, and the store says you can enjoy it without having played the first game.

The story belongs to a girl named Shigure, who has lived a life of sadness and means to end it. Instead she finds herself in a strange coffee house kept by a man named Yakumo, who tells her she is in Ame no Yohira, an underworld whose god has called her there. The coffee house is your base between runs.

Each run drops you into a stage built of corridors, rooms and floors that are generated anew every time. To clear it you collect glowing Magatama beads and set them on an altar. Along the way you pick up keys, healing items, stones to mark your path, a lighter and a flashlight, though light draws attention. Souls you find can be spent at shops that sometimes appear inside the maze. Insects, traps and the corruption itself wear down your health.

The Apparitions are the real threat. If one sees you it gives chase, and its touch kills at once. You lose it by breaking its line of sight: a dark corner, cover, or a cabinet to hide in until it moves on. Walking makes some noise, sprinting makes a lot and runs out quickly, and crouch-walking is slow but nearly silent. Firecrackers can distract an Apparition, and a rare revolver only stuns one for a few seconds.

New against the first game is the Karuta system. Back at the coffee house you equip cards with special effects, such as a map paid for in souls or a kit of starting items, and you buy more with the Magatama you earn. Coffee beans found in the corridors unlock drinks that give small bonuses on the next run. You can replay a cleared stage for beans, Magatama and a better rank.

There are three difficulties. On Beginner a stage needs only three Magatama; the higher settings need five and send more Apparitions your way. The Switch reviewer at W.Kohaku Media liked the sound and Japanese voice acting but found the Switch version stiff, with pop-in and stutter that were worse in handheld mode.

It suits players of the first game and anyone who likes slow, quiet stalker horror where the map is never the same twice. Expect dark subject matter: it opens with a suicide attempt, and a reviewer warns of graphic suicide, violence and domestic abuse.

How to play Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩

1. Buy it on Steam for Windows, on the Nintendo eShop for Switch, or on the PlayStation Store for PS5.
2. Pick Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced; Beginner asks for fewer Magatama and sends fewer Apparitions.
3. At the coffee house, equip your Karuta cards and choose a drink before you set out.
4. Explore the generated stage and collect the glowing Magatama beads, picking up keys, healing items and tools as you go.
5. When an Apparition spots you, get out of its sight in a dark corner, behind cover or in a cabinet and wait for it to leave.
6. Set the Magatama on the altar to clear the stage, then spend your rewards on new Karuta cards.

Tips

• Crouch-walk most of the time: it is slow, but walking makes noise and sprinting makes a lot of it.
• Use the lighter and flashlight sparingly, since light draws the Apparitions to you.
• Drop stones to mark corridors you have searched; the layout changes every run, so you cannot learn it by heart.
• Save firecrackers for when you are cornered: they can pull an Apparition away from you.
• Pick up coffee beans when you see them; they unlock stronger drinks at the coffee house.

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