Okage: Shadow King

Okage: Shadow King is a role-playing game produced by Zener Works and Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was released on March 15, 2001, in Japan. It was later released in America on October 1, 2001. The PlayStation 2 version of the game was never released in Europe.

The game was later re-released on the PlayStation 4 as a digital download. The digital version of the game was released on March 22, 2016, in America. The game was also released the following day, March 23, 2016, in Europe, for the first time.

The game's story follows Ari, a young boy who has a tendency to go unnoticed, as his shadow is possessed by an evil being. After his sister is attacked by a G|ghost, she falls to a curse that causes her to speak in Pig Latin, much to the family's dismay. Ari's family opens a strange bottle that Ari's father found out of desperation. In the process, the Great Evil King Stan was freed, who is very happy to be freed.

He agrees to save Annie's life (despite it never being in danger), and lifts her curse, turning her shadow pink in the process. A pink shadow is the sign of Stan's influence on your body, he explains.

In return for saving Annie from her Pig Latin curse, he demands that one member of the family be Stan's "slave", and allow him to possess their shadow. He reveals that his "shadow" form is only temporary, and he only took that form because his power was stolen and he was sealed in the bottle. In order to reclaim his power, and take over the world, he needs someone's body to merge with.

Due to Ari's overshadowed nature, he is the perfect fit, and despite his objections, he is forced to become Stan's slave. Though still capable of making decisions on his own, his family implores him to follow Stan's every command, and he reluctantly obliges.