My friend . the best thing about the game . is that as a child of reading knowledge the game itself feels real . its fun and this defaces all that the game stands for.
ONE of the original rpg of its time other than ff and wizardy . if you remember those games. thanks for the commentary ... but try grabing the torch and or opening the chest in thelesser fire drakes room. peace and add me as a friend .
The original death was something about falling and breaking your neck... Practically in detail. Which, I mean, it's still cheap, but at least it's cool XD NES version of the Death sequences FTL >.>
Oh thas nothing. Last room, one torch, low flame. I already took EVERY OTHER TORCH IN THE GAME trying to find out what to do. Well, figures im missing an item, I think it's the scepter, and i have to go back to the 4th or so room to get it. One room away from it and the torch runs out. >.>
yeah, this game gave me brain ulcer. with all the many ways to die and the puzzles with answers that didnt make sense.....lol i did manage to beat the game once....with the help of a walkthrough. pretty much you need to pick up everything, otherwise you wont have something to solve a puzzle somewhere down the line....however, many of the things you can pick up will kill you somehow lol the only thing i really liked about this game was the music....yeah.
unless the torch goes out as fast as it appears to AND there is no way to get a new one and/or recharge it. it is about as cheap as the timer in mario. but if the torch gose as fast as it did in the video and there NO WAY to get a new one. then it is cheap
I played this game when I was 8 and had no problem avoiding this death you spoke of. Yes, there were many ways to die, but lighting the torch was the easiest death to avoid. When the music changes and you see your touch is low... perhaps the solution to this riddle is to maybe light another torch
This is not effective as a video response. If you're going to show a "death"...then show the death! Less talk more action. This is more like a walkthrough.
@LeferoVungo this is more like a review, a walkthrouge gose from start to finish showing you everything you need to do to beat it. he even said he NEVER beat the game
Seriously easy game ive beat it several times now guardian legend for nes was damn near impossible.. just remember to take all the torches and use them when your torch is running out.. ill admit though there is a lot of trial and error in this game the first time through.
death by embarrassment???? you cant face the forces of darkness with a marsha nose?maybe he thinks its dark my face hurts and im going home... "you stumble home and have a beer the reaper waits for your liver to go
its a sad thing that your adventures have ended here"
The thing about Uninvited too was that it was creepy as shit to boot along with dying 85 different ways. Shadowgate wasn't actually nearly as creepy. The Scarlet O Hara lady was pretty damn awesome though. She looked like La Catrina.
Some of the deaths are harsh and they described how you die detail for detail. Example-you got stabbed in the gut by a monster. he pulls his sword out of you. You fell down on youre knees trying to catch youre breath but the monster took a few steps towards you and laughed at youre misfortune raised his sword up and decapitated youre head off from youre shoulders. I dont like that at all just say you died game over!
My first playthrough, when I FINALLY got to the final room with the wizard, my last torch went out just before I clicked on my target with the staff. Now THAT was cheap
If you've played Uninvited, it appears to be the pink demon right at the very end of the game too. And in Uninvited, the phonograph plays music from Shadowgate. I like all those little Easter Egg things in those games.
this may blow your mind but they actually used this game in a tournament back in 92 i think. it was for the "best" puzzle gamers in the world. it lasted 4 hours. correct me if im wrong.
The slime one is the worst one in the game. The only one I think is worse than that is in "Quest for Glory" where you pick your nose with a lockpick, shove it in too far, and give yourself a cerebral hemorrhage. That's how you die. Pretty stupid, huh?
Best. Death. EVER. Well, next to drinking dragon's breath and evaporating, being danced to death by fairies, most of the brigand fortress deaths, anything with the dryad, or any death thief-related.
I freakin loved Shadowgate! I beat this game when I was 11...my 17 year old brother was having trouble and I helped him haha.. I loved all the rediculous deaths. I also loved how you could "use" certain items on "self" and it would say "Such odd behaviour for such a brave warrior"
I have the GBC version and I remember that I couldn't beat this game without a walkthrough. I got stuck in the mirror room.. I didn't think of breaking the middle one with the hammer ¬¬
Eh, the slime death was worse. YOu were kind not to told to dicker in that room, and you did SO YOU DIED.
Shadowgate is ridiculously cheap, but it has much worse ones, like the book.
I think the cheapest death ever is in Kazio Mario (a cruel hack of mario) where if your cross the finish line normally.... you march into a pit and die. At the end of a very hard level
The problem with time limits such as that is that they negate the point of a continue option. Without saved games (which you don't have on the NES), it's basically a reset to the beginning of the entire game. Even on games with saves (such as the original Fallout), you end up second-guessing yourself on where you wasted time. Good game design in adventure games and sandbox RPGs is to let the player explore at their pace.
Uhm you do have save games on the NES. Do the Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest ring any bells? They all had save-games as well as many other games.
The continue in Shadowgate just takes back your last move.
Also, there are plenty of torches in the game. I've never once run out.
I think it's good in this game because it makes it more challenging.
Gotta love it. That even happens in rooms that are otherwise lit "in the game", like the Sphinx room, the room with the fireplace, or outside in the moonlight. Incredibly gay.
this game used to give me nightmares as a kid, it still eerks me in a odd way only shadowgate can do. The music is very creepy as well. they should really make a new one for the 360, but tecmo is probably dead now or someting
this game gave me nightmares as a kid, i always had nightmares that i dyed one of the many ways in the game, then the skeleton dude jumped out of my tv & chased me down the stairs. i never got very far in this game, i got to like, a waterfall i think.
You can die in the end... because [censored for those who want a surprise]... Seriously? You can't do ANYTHING after that happens? Not crawl around? Not fumble about the room? You just die like THAT?
Geez... damn... At least the Ruby death is something to behold. But this was just... stupid and (as you put it) cheap. Wow.
Well, since almost every room has a way to die in it, it's fairly realistic. You wanted the developers to make a custom "You died in the dark" death for every room?
the last death would be accepteble if there would came like some animal or a zombie or like a monster that says like "its dark in here"! that would be scary ;D
I think the lights-go-out death is not really implying that the tripping kills you. But since you need a lit torch to light an unlit torch, you will probably not see any monsters or dangers around you. So it settles with "Bam! You fell" instead of "Random demon kills you while you're blind"
how is that the cheapest way to die? the game lets you know your torch is going out by changing the music up, and as long as you're smart enough to take all the torches you can from the walls, you're fine. that game has way cheaper deaths than the torch death.
Though you need to get further in the game to see some really fucked up shit.
There's a point where a woman is chained to a wall. The only warning you have to the fact that she is a WEREWOLF is that if you try to talk to her it tells you you are wasting your time. Get too close and you are dog meat.
Then there is a dragon that you kill with a... star shaped rock.. you got this star in an observatory. You have no way of knowing it will make the dragon explode.
The black mages have been oppressed for far too long. Damn white mages think just because they heal things with their magic and we cause things to burst into flame with ours that they are so much better than us.
Ah I remember playing this game when I was a little kid and getting majorly pissed off every time that I died :P Anyone played Gauntlet? Now that's one hell of a good game for the nes ^^
I still think The Immortal is way up there on "cheap-ass death around every corner." But Shadowrun... man, seriously. Some game designers are sadists.
The way the torch thing works is that when the music changes, it's warning you you only have 3 or so moves left until your last lit torch goes out.
To survive, you select the burning torch, then you use it on one of your other torches in your inventory to light it for more time. They have quite a few extras lying around, and fortunately they only take one inventory space to store.
It's not necessarily the cheapest death, but if you run out of torches then the game can't be beat.
I didn't have enough space to post this in one comment, but I think a cheaper death in the series is in Deja Vu. If you go in one direction at one part you fall in some construction site and die. No warning, you can't even see it until you fall for it. It's avoidable, but one hell of a cheap trick
Some of the rooms can be really hard to complete suprisingly for such an old game. I never actually completed it, but I got it back out the other day and needed to download a walk through to complete it! It makes you go "Ooooh of course!" haha
You know, falling flat on your face in the dark after your torch goes out is, indeed, the most cheapest deaths in the game, maybe even in the entire history of video games.
Cheap deaths or no this game was awesome. The name of the gameplay is trial and error, much like a choose-your-own adventure.
As long as you don't have to start from the beginning each time, deaths aren't insurmountable.
And the torch death ain't bad, if anything, it adds an element of time and suspense to the whole thing...which is different than most first person adventure games.
Trust me, if you want cheap deaths, see the super mario bros hacks.
Yeah the game was cheap with the deaths, but you obviously haven't haven't played it that much. The music changes when you're torch is going out (it has nothing to do with a puzzle needing to be solved), and you can cancel any menu button action by pressing B. It pisses me off when people complain about a game after playing it for a half hour.
correction. You pretty much ignored the fact, that I played (and actually owned this game, a long time ago). Back then, I would sit around for a few hours or more, just trying to figure it out.
What pisses me off, is ppl assuming that after a half hour, ppl just give up. Your comment only shows, that you stayed pissed off at yourself, on this game.
If a game tlls you howe you die, then yeah that counts as getting owned now matter how brutal the death looks. Which is why this game pisses me off everytime I play this.
i hate this game with an all time passion, my dad rented it for me and my brother, we were like 9 yrs old we wanted an action game not a piece of shit. as far as i'm concerned this game can burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just gonna say, you missed WAY too much. Also, if you [use] one of the torches in your inventory, it'll be lit, allowing you to go on. The downside is that if the torch is the one to the right, you can't use it to burn anything, such as a carpet.
If they make a movie based on this game, the main character will be a hemophiliac leukemia patient with osteoperosis.
I remember I smashed one of the mirrors with a hammer and the glass cut me and I bled to death. I figured, well, that's kinda cheap, but maybe I can find some armor somewhere. Then I found out I was wearing armor. Who dies from getting cut with glass while wearing armor?
I have this game for the Gameboy Color. So hard! If I remember correctly, when your torch goes out in that version you trip and break your neck, which makes a lot more sense than just falling face-first and dying. Guess this game was another victim of Nintendo censorship back then.
Oh yeah, and funny video! Shadowgate's death are cheap, yet they're pretty creative at times too.
Yeah the torch death pissed me off too, but the cheapest death ever in shadowgate imo is the harakiri. If you try to equip the sword (something i find logical, since you can equip the cape and the glases etc.) it says that you thrust it into your chest and die. I mean how stupid and fucked up is that???
HAHA, you sound like me! I didn't know there was anyone else out there who said they were pissed off as much as I do.
Also, this game is legend to me because as a kid my mom would play it, and I would watch. Well, I was an early reader, so along with an extreme memory and imagination---I had nightmares nightly for years due to it.
These days I'm glad to own the monster that haunted me though. LMAO
The Beauty of these kind of these games
Dar3dmag3 3 weeks ago
Every death is a cheap one in ol' Shadowgate.
ChristianU2ubeh 1 month ago
My friend . the best thing about the game . is that as a child of reading knowledge the game itself feels real . its fun and this defaces all that the game stands for.
ONE of the original rpg of its time other than ff and wizardy . if you remember those games. thanks for the commentary ... but try grabing the torch and or opening the chest in thelesser fire drakes room. peace and add me as a friend .
JutterBlayed 5 months ago
I'm not sure why you're complaining about the cheap deaths. They are amusing.
It's not like the penalty for death is so bad since you just need to hit Continue to end up right back where you started before you died.
robaart 6 months ago
the floor kills you too?
Foxboy106 6 months ago
Whow this game is horrible! I have seen a lot of awful game reviews but this is new to me.
wishcraft4u2 7 months ago
at 8:46 i fucking hate that thing, Shadowgate freaked me out so bad when i was little such haunting music
AdamR702 9 months ago
even Navi is more fun then this game :/
Typhlosionrider 9 months ago
The original death was something about falling and breaking your neck... Practically in detail. Which, I mean, it's still cheap, but at least it's cool XD NES version of the Death sequences FTL >.>
HellbladesFFXI 9 months ago
TO make it worse, there were more torches in the room! lit!
If YOUR torch goes out its sudden darkness
sonicgreg 1 year ago
looks a lot like un invited
puffleperson 1 year ago
@puffleperson It is made by the same people. Uninvited, Deja Vu & Shadowgate are basically sister games.
AFnord 11 months ago
Your missing a sound channel.
MagneticProductions1 1 year ago
I think a death montage, (Assumin' it hasn't been done before... Heh.) would have been better. Maybe explain the deaths themselves only.
Still, good movie, only 'cause I too, have been killed inside by this game.
RyuLoki 1 year ago
I always die when I fall to the floor
klaymeister 1 year ago
Oh thas nothing. Last room, one torch, low flame. I already took EVERY OTHER TORCH IN THE GAME trying to find out what to do. Well, figures im missing an item, I think it's the scepter, and i have to go back to the 4th or so room to get it. One room away from it and the torch runs out. >.>
ultradinosaur123 1 year ago
READ BOOK
Dead.
ultradinosaur123 1 year ago
yeah, this game gave me brain ulcer. with all the many ways to die and the puzzles with answers that didnt make sense.....lol i did manage to beat the game once....with the help of a walkthrough. pretty much you need to pick up everything, otherwise you wont have something to solve a puzzle somewhere down the line....however, many of the things you can pick up will kill you somehow lol the only thing i really liked about this game was the music....yeah.
ibmental 1 year ago
Playing this game when knowing no english at all +2. Taught me to learn some languages :)
Mah7i 1 year ago
I remember calling the Nintendo hints hotline so many times back in the day to get through this game. Life before the Internet....
GhostIntoTheFog 1 year ago
unless the torch goes out as fast as it appears to AND there is no way to get a new one and/or recharge it. it is about as cheap as the timer in mario. but if the torch gose as fast as it did in the video and there NO WAY to get a new one. then it is cheap
dragonnutds 1 year ago
what the hell is worng with the music in your rom? it´s not at all like it´s supposed to be :s
dbzelda123 1 year ago
@dbzelda123 I thought what was worse was the FPS counter at the bottom. very distracting.
kucoru16 1 year ago
I played this game when I was 8 and had no problem avoiding this death you spoke of. Yes, there were many ways to die, but lighting the torch was the easiest death to avoid. When the music changes and you see your touch is low... perhaps the solution to this riddle is to maybe light another torch
stategrad350 1 year ago 2
This game practically promotes suicide it's so scary!
but then again, the same could be said for all of these old adventure games.
alexthepure 1 year ago
lol fuck this game....such bs....still havnt beat it...lol
xboofoox 1 year ago
This is not effective as a video response. If you're going to show a "death"...then show the death! Less talk more action. This is more like a walkthrough.
LeferoVungo 1 year ago
@LeferoVungo this is more like a review, a walkthrouge gose from start to finish showing you everything you need to do to beat it. he even said he NEVER beat the game
dragonnutds 1 year ago
Seriously easy game ive beat it several times now guardian legend for nes was damn near impossible.. just remember to take all the torches and use them when your torch is running out.. ill admit though there is a lot of trial and error in this game the first time through.
theangel8381 2 years ago
i still think that using the sword on yourself is also a pretty cheap way to die :(
MrTFG 2 years ago 15
maybe if he falls face first to the floor he brakes his neck?
KirbyY15 2 years ago
death by embarrassment???? you cant face the forces of darkness with a marsha nose?maybe he thinks its dark my face hurts and im going home... "you stumble home and have a beer the reaper waits for your liver to go
its a sad thing that your adventures have ended here"
icarus3375 2 years ago
that is a good version too
KirbyY15 2 years ago
The music is win. Your narration is win. owned by the game lol... great vid
thejoshfromtexas 2 years ago
The thing about Uninvited too was that it was creepy as shit to boot along with dying 85 different ways. Shadowgate wasn't actually nearly as creepy. The Scarlet O Hara lady was pretty damn awesome though. She looked like La Catrina.
CunniJA2 2 years ago
Some of the deaths are harsh and they described how you die detail for detail. Example-you got stabbed in the gut by a monster. he pulls his sword out of you. You fell down on youre knees trying to catch youre breath but the monster took a few steps towards you and laughed at youre misfortune raised his sword up and decapitated youre head off from youre shoulders. I dont like that at all just say you died game over!
beatcher1 2 years ago
I remember the first time that happened to me. I was like;
...0___0 Wha... What the F@%K?!
TehChibiHatter 2 years ago
My first playthrough, when I FINALLY got to the final room with the wizard, my last torch went out just before I clicked on my target with the staff. Now THAT was cheap
kamikaze9699 2 years ago 4
@kamikaze9699
Dear God that would so piss me off.
Dar3dmag3 3 weeks ago
I hate that fuckin pink banshee in the coffin room.
tcdrummer50h8 2 years ago 2
If you've played Uninvited, it appears to be the pink demon right at the very end of the game too. And in Uninvited, the phonograph plays music from Shadowgate. I like all those little Easter Egg things in those games.
CunniJA2 2 years ago
It's like the hun game revenge on school
but that game was at least hilarious xD
Dant993 2 years ago
this may blow your mind but they actually used this game in a tournament back in 92 i think. it was for the "best" puzzle gamers in the world. it lasted 4 hours. correct me if im wrong.
FlameDude11 2 years ago 2
What version is this? The death music is all wrong!
AssimilateThis85 2 years ago
i think its the old mac version. i think he mentioned it in the beginning of the video.
FlameDude11 2 years ago
for some reason I feel playing this game.
But I somewhat don't want to play it...
interesting game though.... O.O
PS: the last one has to be the most retarded death ever... :P
SavedByGODsGrace777 2 years ago
"It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here" LOL I totally NEED a t-shirt that says that : )
briarrose481 2 years ago
That sounds genius. Or from Uninvited, "Your Quest Has Ended."
CunniJA2 2 years ago
At 4:29, doesn't the sound effect sound exactly like most Sachen NES games?
Jac2Mac 2 years ago
How about grabbing all of the torches
you see and actually using them rofl.
Phaiyte 2 years ago
Man, they should have made this into an arcade game.
Imagine all the quarters that damn thing would have sucked up!
KomaruMedare 2 years ago 3
i like the game'
coolgordonfreeman 2 years ago 2
Me too. My NES will hardly work anymore(her name was Helga). 20 years old. Shodowgate, the mario games, were my favorites.
kammf 2 years ago
It's so sad that you never played this game. :D
...Why, yes. I AM mocking you. *Phhhhht* :P
MasterZebulin 2 years ago
what emulator are you using?
misterfrustration 2 years ago
The slime one is the worst one in the game. The only one I think is worse than that is in "Quest for Glory" where you pick your nose with a lockpick, shove it in too far, and give yourself a cerebral hemorrhage. That's how you die. Pretty stupid, huh?
bengalsfan0526 2 years ago 3
Best. Death. EVER. Well, next to drinking dragon's breath and evaporating, being danced to death by fairies, most of the brigand fortress deaths, anything with the dryad, or any death thief-related.
topazshot88 2 years ago 3
I freakin loved Shadowgate! I beat this game when I was 11...my 17 year old brother was having trouble and I helped him haha.. I loved all the rediculous deaths. I also loved how you could "use" certain items on "self" and it would say "Such odd behaviour for such a brave warrior"
msharvell 2 years ago
It's like: "I don't wanna go, I just wanna die!"
Avaquaire 2 years ago
you know, you can grab any torch you see. Its not that hard to beat the game before all torches go out. you missed like 6 right at the beginning.
owkenny 2 years ago
I have the GBC version and I remember that I couldn't beat this game without a walkthrough. I got stuck in the mirror room.. I didn't think of breaking the middle one with the hammer ¬¬
Astraknight 2 years ago
Lol faceplant death.
Must have been a super hard floor.
reiyun 2 years ago
DarkValentine is right, you could at least crawl (unless your at the pool area, then you drown, and get eaten by the shark).
Avaquaire 2 years ago
The most daft death is when the torches go out and you fall flat on your face and die.
Fredthebloop 2 years ago
Eh, the slime death was worse. YOu were kind not to told to dicker in that room, and you did SO YOU DIED.
Shadowgate is ridiculously cheap, but it has much worse ones, like the book.
I think the cheapest death ever is in Kazio Mario (a cruel hack of mario) where if your cross the finish line normally.... you march into a pit and die. At the end of a very hard level
DuskBeforeDawn2008 2 years ago 2
I had ShadowGate Classic for the Game Boy and I fucking HATED that game! I couldn't figure what the hell you were supposed to do!
OzaiFan 2 years ago
How's it cheap? The torch runs out. It's basically a time-limit. It's not that hard as long as you keep collecting torches.
thrash77581 2 years ago
The problem with time limits such as that is that they negate the point of a continue option. Without saved games (which you don't have on the NES), it's basically a reset to the beginning of the entire game. Even on games with saves (such as the original Fallout), you end up second-guessing yourself on where you wasted time. Good game design in adventure games and sandbox RPGs is to let the player explore at their pace.
roguishpaladin 2 years ago 2
Uhm you do have save games on the NES. Do the Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest ring any bells? They all had save-games as well as many other games.
The continue in Shadowgate just takes back your last move.
Also, there are plenty of torches in the game. I've never once run out.
I think it's good in this game because it makes it more challenging.
thrash77581 2 years ago
Gotta love it. That even happens in rooms that are otherwise lit "in the game", like the Sphinx room, the room with the fireplace, or outside in the moonlight. Incredibly gay.
ShoMusical9999 2 years ago
I had this game as a kid, and that's not the death music I remember. Interesting.
eunicron 2 years ago
After hearing some anomalies in the rest of the music, I'm guessing it's an issue with the emulator...never mind. :P
eunicron 2 years ago
The death music on the origonal was different, this emulator has a little different sound. So good remember.
julrick54lkoh 2 years ago
this game used to give me nightmares as a kid, it still eerks me in a odd way only shadowgate can do. The music is very creepy as well. they should really make a new one for the 360, but tecmo is probably dead now or someting
rominggnome198 2 years ago 2
This game's a classic.
EdElricBoy 2 years ago 2
this death is CHEAP? That's all you have to say? This death is the biggest shit sandwich ever made!
thegameulost 2 years ago 2
ah, those were the days. The days when macs actually had games. Today all we have is memory games and outdated games.
thegameulost 2 years ago
If you finished the game (NO CHEATS)without losing 1 life you can call yourself GOD OF THE GAMERS!
volker80 3 years ago 3
12:36 was hilarious
Great video, thanks for uploading
Nocomment13 3 years ago
†IT was awsome tho XD i <3 this game †
karatekid37893 3 years ago
Lol you Forgot to die with the cyclops, Trying to slash him wiht the sword
And also the mirrors, Also you so set the "FUCK!" up becuase you opend the cofin, cursed THEN the demon came.
karatekid37893 3 years ago
I like your accent. What state are you from?
Shoe3003 3 years ago
Louisiana
DarkValentine1984 3 years ago
@Shoe3003 I hear no accent
joshyman12312 1 year ago
"...that lies at the edge of a forest....Bullshit."
xD I dunno why but that made my laugh, I played this game until I beat it and I was PISSED OFF as well, I can relate to this video.
D0mithan 3 years ago
Cool to see people appreciate good ol' games
eightbitgnosis 3 years ago 3
FACEPLANT DEATH!
KajidaKitsune 3 years ago 2
this game gave me nightmares as a kid, i always had nightmares that i dyed one of the many ways in the game, then the skeleton dude jumped out of my tv & chased me down the stairs. i never got very far in this game, i got to like, a waterfall i think.
FuckBoyCrizack 3 years ago
You can die in the end... because [censored for those who want a surprise]... Seriously? You can't do ANYTHING after that happens? Not crawl around? Not fumble about the room? You just die like THAT?
Geez... damn... At least the Ruby death is something to behold. But this was just... stupid and (as you put it) cheap. Wow.
RedSalamander 3 years ago 2
Well, since almost every room has a way to die in it, it's fairly realistic. You wanted the developers to make a custom "You died in the dark" death for every room?
AdamX222 3 years ago
i always loved that game although it gave me nightmares for a while...i had nightmares until i beated it myself
KirbyY15 3 years ago 2
i hate that fucking game
00RSZEX 3 years ago
hahaha
sarkissamuel 3 years ago 2
lol portal
vitralizer 3 years ago
the last death would be accepteble if there would came like some animal or a zombie or like a monster that says like "its dark in here"! that would be scary ;D
nanobrain96 3 years ago
wow, i was expecting that you get eaten by something(like a grue(lol refrence))
xoyv 3 years ago
last death was pretty cheap....
Nhoshishi 3 years ago
I think the lights-go-out death is not really implying that the tripping kills you. But since you need a lit torch to light an unlit torch, you will probably not see any monsters or dangers around you. So it settles with "Bam! You fell" instead of "Random demon kills you while you're blind"
Gesh86 3 years ago
09:06 is the cheapest death. I mean, couldn't he JUMP over the slime instead of drag his feet over it?
IDarkPaladinI 3 years ago
This is the first game to make you feel like you're Kenny
moneymandate 3 years ago 27
There's nothing cheap about it. You just use your torches.
zebezd 3 years ago
9:14 is BS. The Ghostbusters already prooved that being slimed does NOT equal death :p
anotherwrld 3 years ago 4
"you've been slimed" lol
narutouzumaki776 2 years ago
i did beat this game.. it was ok.. you didn't miss much
PHAEDRIDER 3 years ago
The game just tries to hard... that somes it all up.
godzilla666ihatecats 3 years ago
how is that the cheapest way to die? the game lets you know your torch is going out by changing the music up, and as long as you're smart enough to take all the torches you can from the walls, you're fine. that game has way cheaper deaths than the torch death.
TheMachRider 3 years ago
Hahaha, oh my God, that was the cheapest way to die, lol!
Timeticker 3 years ago
Though you need to get further in the game to see some really fucked up shit.
There's a point where a woman is chained to a wall. The only warning you have to the fact that she is a WEREWOLF is that if you try to talk to her it tells you you are wasting your time. Get too close and you are dog meat.
Then there is a dragon that you kill with a... star shaped rock.. you got this star in an observatory. You have no way of knowing it will make the dragon explode.
Silvsilvchan 3 years ago
Oh, I remember this game. It took me forever to beat it as a kid.
Silvsilvchan 3 years ago
"The dreaded warlock lord will use his BLACK magic to raise the behemoth from the dark depths."
Is this game racist?
dstebbin 3 years ago
The black mages have been oppressed for far too long. Damn white mages think just because they heal things with their magic and we cause things to burst into flame with ours that they are so much better than us.
Silvsilvchan 3 years ago 2
No, the black magic is refered to as "offense or attack" magic. White magic is refered to as "Healing or Support" magic.
Avaquaire 2 years ago
chinga tu madre! XD
TOYSATWAR 3 years ago
death by faceplant
MahBoi3579 3 years ago
Ah I remember playing this game when I was a little kid and getting majorly pissed off every time that I died :P Anyone played Gauntlet? Now that's one hell of a good game for the nes ^^
BowserKod 3 years ago
"I'm not trying to rant or anything" LOL
wooke1906 3 years ago
I still think The Immortal is way up there on "cheap-ass death around every corner." But Shadowrun... man, seriously. Some game designers are sadists.
LittleFoxDude 3 years ago
The way the torch thing works is that when the music changes, it's warning you you only have 3 or so moves left until your last lit torch goes out.
To survive, you select the burning torch, then you use it on one of your other torches in your inventory to light it for more time. They have quite a few extras lying around, and fortunately they only take one inventory space to store.
It's not necessarily the cheapest death, but if you run out of torches then the game can't be beat.
Alucard0090 3 years ago
I didn't have enough space to post this in one comment, but I think a cheaper death in the series is in Deja Vu. If you go in one direction at one part you fall in some construction site and die. No warning, you can't even see it until you fall for it. It's avoidable, but one hell of a cheap trick
Alucard0090 3 years ago
the fall-face-first-death is the cheapst death i ever seen in my life! not even a kid would die by that!
SpiritOfSpinax 3 years ago
you are supposed to use a torch on the carpet in the first room.
bccritters 3 years ago
I have to admit that I do agree that this game is difficult and very much based on trial and error, but it has a kind of oldschool-feel that I liked.
Agentbromsnor 3 years ago
i was 10 when i got this game and i beat it no problem.
bccritters 3 years ago
DUDE you have to re-light your torches, thats one of the basics of the game.
archangel316 3 years ago
Some of the rooms can be really hard to complete suprisingly for such an old game. I never actually completed it, but I got it back out the other day and needed to download a walk through to complete it! It makes you go "Ooooh of course!" haha
miniroll32 3 years ago
You know, falling flat on your face in the dark after your torch goes out is, indeed, the most cheapest deaths in the game, maybe even in the entire history of video games.
romfrc326 3 years ago
When I had this game, I had a bit of a fright with the girl turning into a wolf.
jamboodle 3 years ago
shadowgate is pwnage even if its short you die so much its really long
Zerofusion1234 3 years ago
A classic game! Remember playing it as a kid, spent a rediculous amount of time on it!
niconude 3 years ago 2
Hahaha
Cheap deaths or no this game was awesome. The name of the gameplay is trial and error, much like a choose-your-own adventure.
As long as you don't have to start from the beginning each time, deaths aren't insurmountable.
And the torch death ain't bad, if anything, it adds an element of time and suspense to the whole thing...which is different than most first person adventure games.
Trust me, if you want cheap deaths, see the super mario bros hacks.
borgman47 3 years ago 2
lmao this game is cheap, its still not scary like de-javu
Flowmasta 3 years ago
i nearly shit my pants when the demon jumped out
ttc95 3 years ago 3
REMEMBER:
in this game you can loose yer life so often you want but in real life BE CAREFUL
KirbyY15 3 years ago 2
Yeah the game was cheap with the deaths, but you obviously haven't haven't played it that much. The music changes when you're torch is going out (it has nothing to do with a puzzle needing to be solved), and you can cancel any menu button action by pressing B. It pisses me off when people complain about a game after playing it for a half hour.
markballa23 3 years ago
correction. You pretty much ignored the fact, that I played (and actually owned this game, a long time ago). Back then, I would sit around for a few hours or more, just trying to figure it out.
What pisses me off, is ppl assuming that after a half hour, ppl just give up. Your comment only shows, that you stayed pissed off at yourself, on this game.
DarkValentine1984 3 years ago
If a game tlls you howe you die, then yeah that counts as getting owned now matter how brutal the death looks. Which is why this game pisses me off everytime I play this.
WeaponXSigma 3 years ago
Other than that, I agree, that death was so cheap that its just plain crosses the line between insane and retarded.
WeaponXSigma 3 years ago
Let's just say it's "insa-tarded".
Avaquaire 2 years ago
Fucking awesome video.
explosionsfrommybutt 3 years ago
This game was awesome when I first played it!
Teabonesteak 3 years ago
Surely this is among the top at the very least... there is NO way of knowing what will kill you and that is the definition of cheap.
Say what you will about other cheap deaths, there are ways around them. But this... no.
robbyalp 3 years ago
when the music get's faster you gotta use a torch : )
bigc6391 3 years ago
i love this game
bigc6391 3 years ago
This game was incredibly long and frustrating, if it wasn't for Nintendo Power I would have gave up on it.
jcmoney111 3 years ago
u trip on ur shoelace and bled to death....LOL!!
twixcookiesncream 3 years ago
i hate this game with an all time passion, my dad rented it for me and my brother, we were like 9 yrs old we wanted an action game not a piece of shit. as far as i'm concerned this game can burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!!
chiachi77 3 years ago
Yeah I beat that game in fifteen minutes.
ChathamFr0 3 years ago
Bullshit, not unless you had beaten it before and knew each step, then it is easily possible.
jcmoney111 3 years ago
I didn`t say the FIRST time I played it. I fucking beat it many times, and pretty sure that was my personal best.
ChathamFr0 3 years ago
I'm just gonna say, you missed WAY too much. Also, if you [use] one of the torches in your inventory, it'll be lit, allowing you to go on. The downside is that if the torch is the one to the right, you can't use it to burn anything, such as a carpet.
ThatguycalledJoe 3 years ago
wat music is this?at 8 orsomething
DTOBIGWAR 3 years ago
wat music is this?
DTOBIGWAR 3 years ago
If they make a movie based on this game, the main character will be a hemophiliac leukemia patient with osteoperosis.
I remember I smashed one of the mirrors with a hammer and the glass cut me and I bled to death. I figured, well, that's kinda cheap, but maybe I can find some armor somewhere. Then I found out I was wearing armor. Who dies from getting cut with glass while wearing armor?
monkeysquid 3 years ago 4
LOL!!!
twixcookiesncream 3 years ago
I have this game for the Gameboy Color. So hard! If I remember correctly, when your torch goes out in that version you trip and break your neck, which makes a lot more sense than just falling face-first and dying. Guess this game was another victim of Nintendo censorship back then.
Oh yeah, and funny video! Shadowgate's death are cheap, yet they're pretty creative at times too.
MewLime 3 years ago
i used to love this game! but yea there r a million deaths along the way b4 u beat it.
WoozleWuzzle666 3 years ago
I still have this game on the NES.
There are definately too many ways to die.
They might not have been so agrivating if they tried to make them funny.
As of today, I've only seen the ending once, and it was not worth it.
kojirotakamashi 3 years ago
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
8:47-8:53
"FUCK!! Damn to this very day I'm still scared of that shit!"
loskim 3 years ago
and music only changes to that high pitch scary noise when your torch is going out
loskim 3 years ago
there's the key in the book, i hope you knew that. ha
loskim 3 years ago
I've done the deaths of shadowgate and they are here on youtube
Check 'em out.
ReeceRowland 3 years ago 2
just seen the first one. and now will watch the second one. It's epic, due to the music dubbed for it XD
you sir, get a 5 for epicness
DarkValentine1984 3 years ago
If you need a walkthrough I know my way through this game, it takes about 40 min or so to beat....
InevidibleMe 3 years ago
You have a good voice. Lemme know if you want a job.
EpicurusThirteen 4 years ago
ok i take the job
moderjoker 3 years ago
Yeah the torch death pissed me off too, but the cheapest death ever in shadowgate imo is the harakiri. If you try to equip the sword (something i find logical, since you can equip the cape and the glases etc.) it says that you thrust it into your chest and die. I mean how stupid and fucked up is that???
Outmind01 4 years ago 5
SUICIDE!!!
ReeceRowland 3 years ago 2
Oh yeah, it also says that you feel disgraced that you didn't even die in battle. lol
AdventChaos2 4 years ago
In the other version of Shadowgate, it tells you that you fall and snap your neck and die. Not just fall on your face.
AdventChaos2 4 years ago
yeah this game fraked me out when i was a kid too, but years of palying it made me get used to it, just the other day i beat it in 45 minutes!
MachoMadness60 4 years ago
HAHA, you sound like me! I didn't know there was anyone else out there who said they were pissed off as much as I do.
Also, this game is legend to me because as a kid my mom would play it, and I would watch. Well, I was an early reader, so along with an extreme memory and imagination---I had nightmares nightly for years due to it.
These days I'm glad to own the monster that haunted me though. LMAO
Great video. :3
kilderok 4 years ago
:) im so happy i own this game with uninvited.
MrPatrickBateman 4 years ago