Shadow Cage

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Shadow Cage
Information
Use	Raposa Imprisonment (Drawn to Life) Dreamer Imprisonment (Two Realms)
Village Object	No
Retrieved	N/A
Location	In most levels.
Games

^{Not to be confused with Doodle Cage.}

Shadow Cages are cages made of Shadow in Drawn to Life and Drawn to Life: Two Realms. They are only seen and used within levels and it and destroying them whenever present is required to rescue all three Raposa and the required amount of Dreamers in order to complete the level.

Gameplay

Shadow Cages trap Villagers who have left the Village in search of a new home. Once encountered, the Hero must hit the cage three times, either by pressing or , freeing the trapped Raposa.

Once a Raposa is freed, they will go through their cheering animation and speak a short amount of dialog before fading into the sub-screen GUI.

Shadow Cages show up in almost every Drawn to Life level, including most boss levels; the only level they do not appear in is the final boss level.

They make no appearance in the sequel. Instead, stranded Raposa will remain stationary around normally-inaccessible or hard-to-reach areas until they are found. They are also optional and not necessary to complete the level, unlike the Raposa trapped in Shadow Cages, which are required.

Shadow Cages return in Drawn to Life: Two Realms, with the same imprisonment functionality as it's original iteration. Unlike in the first game, however, the only captives in these Shadow Cages are Dreamers, who appear within Imagination Battles. Breaking the cage is required to clear the stage it appears in, as it will free the Dreamer trapped inside, with three phases for each stage of wrecking it, just like in the first game.

Appearance

Shadow Cages, as their name implies, are cages composed completely of Shadow. Because of this, they share their same overall appearance. In the first game, they are black, and in Two Realms, they are blueish-green. They also seem to have a texture similar to but not the same as Shadow Goo, and also appear weblike in some ways.

Both versions of the Shadow Cage have four visible vertical bars.

Trivia

• When hit, Shadow Cages emit smaller particles of themselves. This is similar to the player when they take damage, and Shadow Creatures when they are attacked and defeated.
• Franco Key's Imagination Battle, Vinyl Value, had a bug where the Dreamers were associated with the wrong Shadow Cages, resulting in them remaining in place when a cage was knocked away until the player ground pounded near them.
  • This was later fixed in the Creative Pack DLC.

Media

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  A bug where a Dreamer is softlocked in Vinyl Value

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