damn! my torch!

User Rating: 9.5 | Shadowgate (1987) NES
This 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 it, while it's front already made me ''eep''.

And later on (11 years later, ack), I took the courage to download it for my emulator.

-When I was 6:
Scary, really scary. No special 3D graphic-game with blood and gore could beat this, odd enough.
The problem was that I couldn't understand English back then too, to every ''mistake'' I made freaked me out even more, and the grimm-reaper at the end with the HAHA-UR-DED-music was something I always remembered. It happened alot.
This is no game for a 6-year old >D haha...no seriously no, if you want your child scarred for life, go ahead, do it. But I'm 17 now, and because I played that game back then, I had alot of trouble only beginning with the game.

-When I was..what I am now:
Well, I actually did the same as way back then. I was pretty surprized I actually managed to get to the mirrors/dragon and all when I was 6.
It was all what I remembered. Great :[
Big difference, I understand English now, so I understand the ''clues'' and random messages.
Not that there are any clues. This game exists entirely out of ''try and die'' and ''try or die'', you'll have to guess everything yourself, which takes some time to figure which item must be used. Which doesn't makes this game relaxing, but it stimulates your puzzeling. Besides when you've finished the game once already.
Alot of things makes you die without mercy; the obvious desisions as the obvious ways which doesn't seem to be so obvious after you see Grimm Reaper's picture turning up.

Music/sounds matches the rooms you enter and the actions you take.
Graphics are more than decent.
Interesting style of gameplay in ''storybook mode''.

This game is a must get if you want to piss your pants, good luck