Shadow Tower is a first-sperson dungeon crawler released in 1998 on the Sony Playstation. It was developed by From Software. A sequel titled Shadow Tower: Abyss appeared on the Playstation 2 console in 2003.
Not much knowledge of Japanese is required to enjoy Shadow Tower as there is relatively little text which appears outside the menu screens. This makes it a good first game for those interested in playing games in the language. Furthermore, (at the time of writing) the price of a Japanese copy of the game only costs about one-tenth of that of the North American release, so it's a great way to enjoy the game on the cheap.
Only a small portion of the text that appears on menu screens has been finished. Once that is done, work on item descriptions will begin.