Shadowgate

Its a fantastic puzzle quest point and click game. Puzzles are challenging, but logical if you think things through and use intuition. Save often because you can die in many amusing ways. The style and atmosphere are great for dark fantasy.

The game does what it sets out to do well: Create an immersive puzzle solving atmosphere set in a fantasy world that pays homage to the original game. The various difficulty options along with the addition of Yorick to provide optional hints help the player tailor the difficulty to the kind of experience that they are looking for. Visually, the game looks great, with a consistent aesthetic.

Played the original on Nintendo and Gameboy Color when I was no older than 10. I got stuck so many times. Really enjoyed this newer reimagining.
Only thing I wish for this specific version - I wish the "retro" graphics actually meant THE RETRO GRAPHICS and not just over pixelating the updated images.
Do NOT pick "Normal" if you want even a little challenge. I had to FORCE myself to die, just to see if I could. I jumped into lava (had to tell my char to do it 3 times before he would), that type of thing. "Classic" will let you have all the silly deaths the OG relentlessly gave (I hope, anyway)
8/10

Only a yes if the original(s) left an impression on you, especially if getting the edition that includes the classic version. I feel like I had to reuse my knowledge in other ways since the classic. It gave a reinvigorating breath of generation to the game. The art is a little subpar for my taste, it feels like an unfinished illustrator that was animated later with some puppet tools and lighting effects. I don't hate that, but it still feels unfinished.
As per the game; the score is great! I feel like the skull companion only gives obvious hints, which are fine if you really need a start, but when it gets really hard it doesn't serve any purpose other than to annoy you.
It didn't have the same "feel" as one might say per the classic, but it does its best to copy the look and mechanics. (The dragon terrified me. Lots of potential to increase the palpable tension in this version that didn't)
I highly recommend if it's on sale.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
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☐ 10

I can't believe I never reviewed this! It's so good! The art is stunning and the soundtrack is epic! Get it!

This isn't a "point and click game" ...its a "point and click ADVENTURE!"

I was one of the "fortunates" who played this game on NES in the 1980's when it released. My sister and I worked our way through it side-by-side. We were just about 6 and 8 years old, on the couch sharing a Nintendo controller, with nothing but a child's sense of wonderment to guide us. This was not an easy game for us. But we loved it. It challenged us to discover, punished us when we failed, and forced us younglings to be more observant and creative in our attempts to solve each new "dead end." Its one of the handful of games her and I can still mention at any time and say to each other "Remember Shadowgate? Yeah, that game was one of the greats."

Well, its not the 80's anymore. Its 2024. All of my memories of this game are from 30+ years ago. I haven't touched it since. So when I saw it on sale for $3.74 I thought to myself "buying at this price is the least I could do to give thanks to these devs for keeping alive such a Great Adventure once adored by a couple of kids."

So I bought it and turned it on... if only to give a quick curious look at that memorable first door... before continuing my adventure elsewhere on what could be 2024's GOTY: Dragons Dogma 2. Well, I think that other adventure is going to have to wait a bit longer then expected. I've only just turned on Shadowgate, been in 3 separate areas/rooms, but the vibe the game is creating has me immediately wanting more. The music is fantastic. Fit for a fantasy. The recreated graphics remind me of art you'd find on Magic The Gathering playing cards. I don't want to play it right now, I need to. I just can't wait to see if my adult self is as clever as the dynamic duo of children who played this gem so many years ago. Oh, and I've forgotten almost everything. I guess I still am one of the "fortunate ones."