AH! every bit as challenging as I remember it to be!
Reviews for "Flash Shadowgate"
larrymcduck responds:
I wanted to keep it as close as I could. Happy to see you still enjoy it!
As a retro gamer, this was pure heaven to me. A great port of a classic NES game that had a great updated interface with medals. The music was just as I remembered it from back in the day and you managed to squeeze in tons of details, right down to the useless "leave" button. I can't tell you how much I love you for putting this up on here. I look forward to seeing your sequel!
P.S. I kinda hate you for making this, though. The death scene with the grim reaper used to give me terrible nightmares as a kid and you've reminded me of those horrible incidents. *Shudders*
larrymcduck responds:
Thanks for the response! I know exactly what you mean by the nightmares. That music and the reaper's face used to creep me out lol. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Fucking Great!
This was one of my favorite NES games ever!
Truly;
M.B. DeathInk
larrymcduck responds:
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it in flash as well as the NES!
Hey
please tell me how to fix this my game is glitched to where key 2 disappears form my inv and i cant ever use it please help
larrymcduck responds:
When does it disappear from your inventory? I hope to fix this for you soon.
Cool game, fiendishly hard
I'm sad to say that I'm either not in the know, or some of the choices you make to succeed aren't intuitive =(
The puzzle elements of this game remind me a lot of La Mulana: take notes, observe things (without dying), and make educated guesses. While this game is nowhere near as big or time-consuming, you won't be able to get second glances at crucial hints, such as the book that gives you the spell "Motari riseth" or the prophecy the wizard spits at you. It's not a bad thing exactly, but it's also super tedious and not a whole lot better than trying everything exhaustively.
But after you figure out how to play the game and do all the right things, it's actually rather enjoyable going back through the game and screwing off. Use the poker on yourself? Suicide isn't going to help you on your quest! Use fountain water on self? You scoop it up with your hands and drink it, and scream a nonexistent scream because your throat has been melted away. lolwut. Pay the troll gold coins? Nah, he'll just kill you anyways. Trolololo
Anyways I'm getting carried away here. While looking up the combination for the lever puzzle, I noticed that there's a great amount of variation between your remake and the other versions of Shadowgate. Far be it from me to scold you (especially since I've never played the original), but I can't help noticing I'm not given options to do things that otherwise seem like they would be normal. For example, if I want to jump off a cliff, I should be able to do that. And yet there are a couple things that I can do that probably shouldn't have happened. Example: bypassing the cyclops by just clicking the move square in the map.
Original emulation or not though, what's up with the "leave" command? It's utterly useless and it seems to do exactly what "use" does. There's also various other minor details that didn't seem to be consistent how the game works or is otherwise in spirit of the original.
Overall, I enjoyed all the depth and the lulz to be had in this game. I'd say it's worth the time after you're done slogging through the puzzles for the first time. Or just looking up how to do them.
larrymcduck responds:
The same this the wizard says is in SCROLL 1 you can find it in the room with the EPOR sign. As for some other clues, yes, you only have one chance. I wanted to keep pretty much everything exactly how it was in the original.
I appreciate all the feedback. I found the LEAVE command useless as well, but since it was in the original, I kept it anyway. I've tried leaving items in certain areas in the NES ROM and (maybe I was doing it wrong) but failed with every attempt. Luckily, in Shadowgate 2 which my brother and I are working on, there will be no LEAVE command.