Shadowgate

Nostalgia plays an interesting and prominent role in the video game industry. Although the medium is only a few decades old, it is already obsessively reflexive, continually mining its own past rather than forging ahead into the vast, untapped formal...

Shadowgate wants to remind players of what games were like twenty years ago, albeit with a fresh visual covering. The improved presentation is a welcome addition, but the unevolved gameplay and story will tend to feel outdated. In the end, it feels...

Shadowgate is really just Myst in hell, and while it's an undeniable success as a straight-up reproduction of a mid-80s point-and-click adventure, the slavish devotion to its source material is tiresome and frustrating. Nostalgia is nice, but not everything improves with age.

Shadowgate isn't just retro, it's retrograde, and the visual update really isn't as impressive as it first...

If you've been playing games for a long while, the Shadowgate name is probably familiar to you. Since it helped spark the adventure game genre back in the 80s, Shadowgate has been ported to a variety of systems, most famously the NES. You used a lot of...

One last time, in case you missed it: Shadowgate is hard. There's no getting around it. Even if you're a veteran of the original, you'll most likely get stuck occasionally considering the developers switched or tweaked most of the puzzles. You're going...

This is a definite case where nostalgia is inseparable from the game, and Shadowgate is a great modernisation of a classic of the adventure-RPG genre. An abusive classic, but still. If you remember it fondly, it's both a return trip and a good chunk...