
Shadowgate Review
It doesn't move the genre forward in any way, but Shadowgate is a wonderful return to the early days of adventuring.
It doesn't move the genre forward in any way, but Shadowgate is a wonderful return to the early days of adventuring.
If you can look beyond this cumbersome interface, you'll have a great time with this classic brain-buster.
Shadowgate Classic has is that it has not improved with age, and newcomers will fail to see the original charm hidden under the unintuitive gameplay.
This is really a great game. It is fun and has good music. I love this game and highly reccomend it. In it you play as a person trying to stop a evil warlock lord named Talimir. He wants to rule everything. Allthough... Read Full Review
4 of 4 users found the following review helpfulINTRO:Most adventure games of the present day give the player the convenience of all the time that he/she wants, if only to give the player all the opportunities to savor the artistic effort which has been invested in th... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulPros and Cons: + Every action you do has a consequance! + Innovative, scary story that will keep you afraid of what will happen next. + Solid music. + Did I mention how every action you do has a consequance!?! -... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulOk this game I owned when I was little and may not seem that great to people these days it's game play and puzzles are actually fun and I've just recently gone back and played it through again and enjoyed it. This gam... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulIf you've never played this game, or even heard of it, than I'm sorry. But you shouldn't feel bad. This point-and-click adventure game was never even close in terms of popularity to some other games of the time (the late... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulBefore you read my review of this game, I have to warn you: I am biased. I bought this game when I was 6 years old, so I have a lot of fond memories of it. On with the review: This is a point & click adventure game (... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulThis game was one of the games we've got from the start. Why? I don't know, I was only 6, and only one of my sister played the Nintendo and also only played games like Mario and Kirby. I once took the bother to play ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulShadowgate is a nice mesh of interactive fiction and point & click adventure and just as unmercifully hard as it's predecessors in the genre. In this game, you wander in first person through the castle solving puz... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulShadowgate is one of those games that is as frustrating as it is fun. A point-and-click console title, it is a fun game that doesn't exactly fit its system. That notwithstanding, it is worth playing through at least on... Read Full Review
1 of 2 users found the following review helpfulI was playing this title at the tender age of 9, it was incredible I must have spent most of my time at the front door trying to find a way in, this game seemed to have puzzles that played on your mind for days on end. ... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulAbsolutely amazing how this genre of game has survived for so long...this semi reincarnation of the whole text based to crap graphics dungeon adventure really captures the atmposhere and puzzles from the old game books p... Read Full Review
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