An indie platforming game made in 2009. Also known as 天国の塔 ( Tengoku no Tou, same meaning).In this game, you play as a humanoid creature who attempts to scale a gigantic tower against the wishes of the tower's resident god. Said deity attempts to put an end to your progress by enforcing certain laws, such as 'Thou shalt not walk left' or 'Thou shalt not touch yellow blocks'.

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The player must not only time their jumps and navigate platforms of varying difficulty, but must ensure that they adhere to the laws brought forth by the deity.The game's overall feel was designed to invoke old games, with a deliberate greenish monochrome colour scheme and 8-bit style music. Oh and.Can be downloaded. A port of the game with a few extra features, including a, can also be found on. It later received a sequel/,.This game contains examples of:.: Butterflies.

The deity himself is one.: The main protagonist, using only his jumping ability and little else.: 'May heaven grant you fortune', as said by the deity of the tower, though he will twist it a couple of times.: The tower falls to pieces at the end of the game.: Once you finally reach the deity ( who appears to be nothing more than a simple butterfly), he surrenders, having nothing else to throw at you.: The second rule, 'Thou shalt not touch blocks or walls from the side.' .: The game's design uses a -like color scheme, except for the ending.: The protagonist defies the will of god to satisfy his own goals.: Yellow blocks, spikes, buzz saws, block sides, grass, butterflies, and walking left can all kill you, once the laws are active. Except the spikes and saws, which are always lethal.: One infamous law: 'Thou shalt not walk left.' That does mean walk — moving left by any other method is fine.: The Book of Laws invoke this. The deity DOES mention that he's never had to utilize the book before. The book shatters on the last stage thus permitting you to walk left and touch the sides of blocks once more.

Also, see.: Fakes out an situation in one room, where the deity loses its temper with you and proclaims you'll suffer fiery torment. It's a simple room that would normally involve just a short trek to the level exit as usual, but the exit is caked in vegetation and by that time, you're forced to obey a law that forbids you from touching living things, which includes said vegetation. The solution? One of the window sills has no vegetation present and is the real level exit, since you can land and walk about on it, unlike other windows in the game.: Naturally, given it's a platformer.

Most are static, but some move. One even transports you to a secret.:.

The tower falls and not much else is seen other than the hero letting a butterfly touch his finger, which either symbolizes that he no longer has to abide by the Book of Laws, although it could also symbolize that the protagonist has mastery over the deity, who was also shown to be a butterfly.: The deity tells you the controls in the first level and how to save your game in the third. In the Newgrounds version, it doesn't do either of these things. Both versions have it tell you how to review the rules.: ' The Book of Laws shatters.' A possible moment for the player, mostly.: Played with by the deity, who declares that if you're going to scale the tower and claim the reward, you must 'shed your humanity', and thus, a law forbids you from touching living things, which amount to the vegetation and roaming butterflies. The ending reinforces the knowledge that the laws were revoked with the book's destruction, as he tenderly lets a butterfly rest on his finger with no ill effect.: To the platformer games of old, right down to the colour scheme consisting of only black and greenish-yellow.

Except for the full color ending. The music is also 8-bit classic. Except for the ending's piano solo of 'Atop the World'.: Since it's a tower, you only go upward to reach the next stage(s).: Seriously, some of those laws are just malicious.: Required to obtain the third secret, right before the end of the game.: The Flash port comes with one, which unlocks upon clearing the game. In order to share the level you make, though, you have to beat it first.:.

At one point, you are forced to obey a law that forbids you from walking left. Of course, the player is meant to discover that the law never says anything about not jumping or falling left. More significantly: as soon as you pick up the Book of Laws, the deity tells you 'Within the walls of this tower, you must obey what it commands, or I will smite you.' When you exit the tower via a window and climb from outside, you cease to be within the tower's walls, causing the Book of Laws to shatter.: The Tower God starts slipping into this as you ascend the higher levels of the tower.: The level editor for the Newgrounds version reveals the protagonists name as Eid, which is 'Die' backwards. Now, what does want you to do? That's right.: Depending on whether you found both the secrets or not, the deity's final words may change.

That is to say, finding both secrets results in an ending that describes you 'emerging with vast riches'. In the Newgrounds version, beating the game with all three secrets will add an additional screen after the result screen.: Since it invokes old games, this is in effect. You have to combine Platforming skills with adherence to the laws. Said laws also escalate in cruelty, from simply not being allowed to touch yellow blocks, to not being able to walk left, not touching blocks or walls from the sides, not touching living beings and eventually not being allowed to look at the Book of Laws again. At least until the final level destroys the book and revokes all but one of the laws. In the Newgrounds version, all the laws are revoked, but the obstacle remains (albeit changed).: There has been no name given for the deity.

The protagonist was also unnamed until the Newgrounds Flash port. According to the level editor, his name is Eid.: Contact with a spike or saw or breaking one of the laws will result in instant smiting.: Basically the whole game. There's two levels where, if you don't make a move within the first second, you die. The first of those levels has an exit to the mere left of you. But this is the same level where you're forbidden from walking left. How do you beat the level?.

And then the final level combines spike traps, skull blocks, saw blades, various other vicious traps, and a classic, and is one of the longest levels to boot.: Later in the game, one of the laws is 'Don't open the Book of Laws'.: Most of the songs have the same recognizable motif. According to, 'Atop the World' was composed first, as a piano improvisation, and all the other songs are based on that melody.: The Newgrounds version changed the golden blocks in the final level to skull blocks, in order to fill the of golden blocks still killing you after the Book of Laws is broken. The composer (spoilers in the comments) on Youtube as well. Flashygoodness: That was a problem in the original game. The yellow blocks still killed you after the rules were nullified in the original version, hence the decision to change them to a different type of block in the new version.: The main character's name: Eid, which is 'Die' backwards.: One of the achievements is.: Well, they're here.: Butterflies and plants once the fourth rule, 'Thou shalt not touch a living thing,' comes into effect.:.:. At the start of the game, the deity tells you they have no patience for slow workers, giving each stage a time limit.

This doesn't apply in the treasure rooms or the rooms between areas, however. The timer goes out the window for the final level - by exiting the tower, you free yourself from the deity's power.: The final level has all the laws repealed and so features the most upbeat incarnation of the main theme,.: The deity gradually gets more desperate to stop you the further you get into the tower, enforcing crueller laws in his anger.

Particularly notable is this line.

A typical level of the game, showing the first law that is given to the player to impede their progress.In Tower of Heaven, the player controls Eid, a silent protagonist with a large, -like head, who scales the Tower of Heaven, a mysterious monolith that promises glory to those who scale it. During the journey, a voice assumed to be God talks to Eid, getting angrier the further he climbs. Sakura maid pic.

He gives Eid the Book of Laws. The voice imposes more and more laws, and the player dies instantly if any of them are broken.The game also includes a mode, where you are timed, and a stage editor mode for the Flash browser version, where you can create and play your own stages.Development Tower of Heaven's soundtrack, composed by FlashyGoodness, and graphical style are heavily influenced by the, which was called 'sly and deliberately deceptive' to hide the 'brutal' difficulty. The game lacks a lives system, and instead uses a timer on each floor to encourage players to continue.The game has been said to 'expose' the 'arbitrariness' of long-standing platformer by giving the design of the Tower an in-universe source and ultimately revealing its design as artificial and in need of destruction.The game's release was celebrated with a speedrun contest held by the developers at the TIGSource. Reception Tower of Heaven received positive reception from critics.

Michael Rose of called the game a 'wonderful platformer' despite its difficulty. Joseph Leray of called the game's soundtrack 'absolutely killer'. Fraser McMillan of Gamasutra called the game 'almost more liberating' than open world AAA games, due to the fact that it makes quitting the game and the player's quest a perfectly valid option.Tower of Heaven received a tribute in the form of a playable stage in the 2011 platform fighter and its 2017 spiritual successor,. The stage included similar art to Tower of Heaven, along with music and references from the game.See also.References.