If one of the many guards hear an attack or find a body on the floor they will immediately alert all the other enemies and they will all start searching for Aragami. It is possible to complete the chapters by not killing anyone, but there is also a great deal of satisfaction by shadow leaping to different locations in order to take out the enemies using stealth kills. Staying hidden and using stealth is the only way to progress. Each level is patrolled by guards, who can and will kill you instantly if they spot you. The colour of the player changes between bright red and black/gold dependent on his current essence.

Shadow Essence is replenished by standing in the shadows, and drained by standing in well-lit areas. The main skill that Aragami has at his disposal is the ability to teleport to any area of his immediate vicinity that is cast in shadow, called a Shadow Leap, but this uses up his Shadow Essence, which is cleverly displayed as a meter on his cape. She requests Aragami’s help in freeing them, and needs six artefacts to unlock the prison which are located across the games thirteen levels. She claims that after winning the war, they imprisoned the Empress and her people in the Nisshoku’s main temple. The player controls a shadow spirit, Aragami who is summoned into existence by an astral projection of Yamiko, a girl who has been imprisoned after a war has been fought between the Shadow aligned Nisshoku (Good) and the Light aligned Kaiho (Bad).

Aragami nightfall ending explained