Solar Shadow 4

**Solar Shadow 4** known also as **Solar Shadow 2059: Black Label** was released on 19th February 2020. Unlike the other two games in the series, its actually a fan remake of Rockit, an obscure game that it's creator AuroraDash was a fan of.

## Plot

In 2059, North of Tirahnys, in the splendid metropolis of Nicotine City, all 15-year-old Milo Oceanstep ever wanted to do was play video games and hang out and do drugs. As life goes, powers beyond his control keep getting in the way of that. Fortunately for him, a powerful military drone has fallen into his hands, and now he can use it to get back at everyone who's wronged him.

The opening text crawl reveals that in 2029, Valerie's War had come to an end and due to her restored sanity was far more willing to negotiate with Mi'aro Genryutsukei. This led to peace talks which led to Valerie's faction gaining a piece of land in the cold north, which allowed her to form the Republic of Jalista. Eventually, this led to the creation of Nicotine City which despite it's severe air pollution problems ended up being one of the top cities in all of Newerth. 30 years later, its citizens enjoy the highest standards of living and luxury across the planet. Milo had been enjoying high school until recently due to one of his teachers disapproving of his relationship with his boyfriend, due to them being 26 and also his half-brother. By chance, Milo finds a nuclear powered military drone and decides that he's going to cancel class to protect their relationship.

The next day, the teacher has been killed and replaced with a substitute with nobody caring all that much. Alice Veilnight, a popular author comes in to do a talk on Newerth's history which involved the Lunar Soul Castle and Aidan Flamberge. Realizing that Nicotine City may've never existed because of Aidan Flamberge, Milo is intrigued and does his research on Aidan, eventually finding the location of his grave. Milo reasons to himself that a monster like Aidan doesn't deserve to rest in piece and sends his drone off to destroy the grave.

## Levels

The game has a total of 20 levels, organised into four worlds of unequal length:

* 1-1: BLOCK
* 1-2: ALLEYS
* 1-3: CIRCLE
* 1-4: WALL
* 1-5: SCHOOL

**NOTE**: In World 2, you can use a laser to destroy yellow blocks throughout the level, though it takes up energy which can regained by moving.

* 2-1: CITY LIMITS
* 2-2: WOODS
* 2-3: DARK YARD
* 2-4: GRAVE
* 3-1: COAST
* 3-2: STREET
* 3-3: BRIDGE
* 4-1: APARTMENT
* 4-2: BACKWAYS
* 4-3: CEMENT PARK
* 4-4: TUNNELS
* 4-5: CATACOMB
* 4-6: MIDNIGHT
* 4-7: INNER CORE
* 4-8: TOWER

## Trivia

* The game comes with Rockit, because AuroraDash believed that the original deserved some love as well.
* The story of Solar Shadow 2059 was actually written by it's author while he was drunk. In addition, it took him only a day to create the game.
* The game's subtitle Black Label is a reference to the Bullet Hell genre where the term "Black Label" is used for enhanced versions of games (such as Mushihimesama Futari or Dodonpachi) that are more difficult, have a remixed/new soundtrack and a new True Final Boss.

**Non-Canon Games:** Selenic Shadow • Gun • **Fanon Games:** Solar Shadow • Solar Shadow 2 • Solar Shadow 4