Feudal era Japan is conquered by a mysterious ninja clan known only as "Shadow Heart." Take the role of Aya, a gallant ninja, to assassinate their leader and free the nation from their rule.
P-E-R-F-E-C-T.Can you make a version without a time limit?I think that the map will be more appreciated like that because the players will have their time to see what you have done.I admire you anyway, VGsatomi you are the leader.And the best mapper i think.Keep up the good work to make us follow your example. (Greetings from Greece) Teron
Godamn thats quite hard But im looking forward to completing it! A good job well done, VG! The only thing i would say: Its quite hard to use all the skills you have. Perhaps it might be better to have them hotkeyed to Q,W,E,R,T,Y? Just a thought. Anyway, real nice map.
Are the ninjas that come at you endless? I am able to fight a few of them just by dodging and attacking, but to fight 50 of them, you need loads of mana, and i always run out. I never seem to have enough time to siphon it too, as im always trying to run around...
Updated again. Removed the voices and lowed the quality of some of the mp3 tracks to reduce file size (11 megs gone ). Took out the seperate endings due to potential bugs and made it so the mountain area is no longer an optional area (players must now finish it to reach Yaksha). Added in more variety of enemy death knells, added in civilians, added in an time limit during the second chapter and fixed a few other minor bugs. Enjoy. -VGsatomi
Hey VG, use Sony SoundForge to record voices, delete noise and modifie or distort. I'm using it and i can say it's great. You can pitch dawn to make it monster-like.
Edit completed. Map is now almost 50% bigger with more missions to do. Just a reminder that I reccomend using winzip classic mode, not wizard, when extracting from the zip.
EDIT: Another Edit done. Added a chapter that takes place after Yaksha is defeated. Map is now full size, and I have no more room to expand, out of units, doodads, ect, no more room to add anything else in. The story now concludes. So I guess I can consider this map "Gold" now.
Also, there is now an option to skip the opening cinimatic. -VGsatomi
download-I've downloaded this map 4 times. Everytime the same problem. 3rd party programs-I don't have any. hardware/software-This might be the problem. I tried it in my older computer and it still crashed. patch-1.20b
I can still open it, so not sure what else I can do on my end.
Well, you could check the units, but I'm not sure if you can really do anything to it.
I dont know what to say...maybe try downloading it again. I havent used any 3rd party programs or mods to make it, so as long as you dont have any installed as well, there should be no conflicts in regards to blizzard software. It must be something else, like unrelated hardware or software. I can still open it, so not sure what else I can do on my end. Just make sure you're patched up. -VGsatomi
Nothing. WC3 suddenly quits when it has loaded about 5/6 of the map.
Sound formt problem does sound feasible. All the sounds are in either .mp3 or .wav. If you comp doesnt have mp3 support, when it goes to play the music in a format the comp cant read, it may cause a crash.
My comp should have both .wav and .mp3 support.
I think that I now know what is the problem: I opened it in world edit and it crashed when it was downloading units. I repeated it several times and noticed that it crashed when it was 460/491 units. So the problem is propably in one of the units.
btw I just tried the multiplayer version and it was pretty good. I'd really like to try solo version.[/quote]
What does it say when you try to open it? I dont have it protected or anything, and I used only the official blizz world editor. I can't give advice for mac users, but for win users, all I can say is that I had world editor crashes frequently after I switched to Windows XP...I simply chaged the compatability of worldedit.exe (properties-->compatability) and set it to windows 2000 and it fixed all my problems right up.
Sound formt problem does sound feasible. All the sounds are in either .mp3 or .wav. If you comp doesnt have mp3 support, when it goes to play the music in a format the comp cant read, it may cause a crash. -VGsatomi
as far as i know, i've never run into a "windows only map". i'm pretty sure there isn't such a thing. that being said, it doesn't work for me either. i can't even open it in worldedit and test the map from there. probably isn't anything to do with the computer itself, just the software. maybe the format of the sound files or something...
The Warcraft crashed when loading the map. I have iMac 2,1 gthz and 1gt memory and the latest patch so that shouldn't be a problem. Is this WIndows only map or something like that?
Good points: - I love the custom models and sounds. - It's different from known maps, original - Definately done with care
Points to be improved: - (again) the cinematics, skippable please - (again) the voices, if possible - (again) a little warmup would be nice, first try took me 30 seconds to die. - The models, they tend to jump alot, especially during the cinematic. - It might be a bit too hard for some people, how about difficulty settings? A dialog at start that sets the difficulty maybe? (which influences the hp/mana of Aya?)
Altogether a good map, and with these few points improved one of the greatest imo.
Ok I tested and I like what i see on it but i have some suggestions. -on begining cinimatic voice overs were kind of....robotic, the lady one didn't seem to fit her that well and they would continue to talk even after the sound finished so make them stop talking after sound is finished. -It was very difficult I ended up running from 50+ Ninjas all over the town so maybe give some training time or something like that before the ninjas just start running up to you so you can get used to the abilities of the hero first. And that is well basically all i found wrong so far but really good map high quality.
-Game has no point, random story, random clan of ninjas. >>omg, they came from the mountians... >>so little and limited detail...
And the reason stated was to kill this goddess because she threatens lord masamune's rule.
Hence the story unfolds. You cant expect to have everything right off the bat. The idea was to discover who they are and why they are fighting. (even one of the quests is to find out who the Shadow Heart really are)
And your critique of my terraining doesnt help me at all. Please be more specific. -VGsatomi
Review: -Game has no point, random story, random clan of ninjas. >>omg, they came from the mountians... >>so little and limited detail... >>what were the goddesses motive for her actions? >>I guess she hates men... >>And of course she wants to live a peacefull,meaningless farm life...so cliche..again creativity lacking. -Gameplay is very boring, repetitive >>Killing ninja women and hearing them scream was nice... >>killing over and over and over... and not even able to skip the cinema is horrible -Music >>good job, too techno.. -Terrain >>good job, however wth is up with your enviroment terrian. The cattails doodad, isnt being used properly, and looks bad, remake your river terrain, the flow is good though. ^_^ -Custom Models........ >>Ok...good job....lol using the ones this site provides. good job though, you are putting good models to good use.
over all good job....you should spend more time in story development. Although it was about the gameplay, gameplay is lacking when people don't have a reason for killing, or playing. And the reason stated was to kill this goddess because she threatens lord masamune's rule. Ya...
Im preparing another girl model just now hopw u ll use it too
I look very forward to seeing it. Any female models made by you and Black_stan are pretty much guarenteed to be added into this map, as long as they are human. It gives me more reasons to add additional quests and endings, too.
Oh, and I can't wait to hear the voices
Dont get your hopes up too high, they're not that great. WOuld be wonderful to have real voice actors and actresses.
Are you planning on maknig more maps of this theme
I'm not sure yet. If I do make more shadow heart maps, it will likely be in the form of a campaign rather then additional stand-alone maps.
Thanks for the comments and feedback, everyone! -VGsatomi
Ohhh, I'll have to download this in the morning. I was a big fan of the original, and I'm sure this one will be just as good. Are you planning on maknig more maps of this theme?
great map. But the only thing that was very anoying was that I found no way to disable the intro!. Hey Vg u make a lot of girl based maps...Thats why I lov all ur maps!!! ^^ Im preparing another girl model just now hopw u ll use it too
I'm planning on adding in more quests as Jigrael and Black_stan make more models. Right now its just the Akuza and Mayumi quests alongside the original ones. I already have one more in ready in the next version where you have to stop a gold shipment...might get it posted today.
why r all the voices sound like robotlish
I used a text to voice program. Figured it was better then nothing since the voices really didnt increase the file size that much.
It's cool that she's lvl 10 in the start but it is fun to be able to lvl up a character think about that.
I understand completely, but keep in mind this is not an RPG. its an offense/arcade action-style game. I'll be fixing some of the abilites on the next version.
i recommanded that you hire some people to do those voices
Easier said then done. Especially with female voice actors. If I had access to them, the whole game would be voiced dialoge.
The map may be difficult, but it is only single player, so you can use the normal save feature whenever you want to save your progress (or just cheat )
VG this was an impressive map I did have some fun the first 15 munites, all the kiling and stuff but you say more quests but all I see is kill commanders and kill the Goddess of War......
Good Points:
GREAT terrain It's difficult and I love that in a map. Story was alright. I don't know why I can't give alot of good points for a map but know this your map was cool
Bad like REALLY bad points.
Those voices, they need life not some Microsoft Sam and Microsoft Ann voices. Like I said I only had fun for 15 minutes two reasons why: 1:It's cool that she's lvl 10 in the start but it is fun to be able to lvl up a character think about that. 2: Mindless killing there's really no point if you only hack n slash the entire map, Could just as well be playing The UnIncredible Hulk. Please do put in more quests. I did put in hard in the good points but thats just for me but alot of people hate maps that are to hard. Rivers don't flow that badly on a sunny day......
Wow very good game i love the terrian and the rivers kinda hard but after a few trys you get threw it the vocies are sorta robotic but its not thats big of a deal hopefully i can make a game as good as you one day XD
This is a dedicated solo version of Shadow Heart. It has more musics, more cinimatics, more story, more quests, more variety in enemies, some speech, ect. But obviously due to file size its single player only.
P-E-R-F-E-C-T.Can you make a version without a time limit?I think that the map will be more appreciated like that because the players will have their time to see what you have done.I admire you anyway, VGsatomi you are the leader.And the best mapper i think.Keep up the good work to make us follow your example. (Greetings from Greece) Teron 
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5 out of 5 
Especially with female voice actors. If I had access to them, the whole game would be voiced dialoge.
