Currently the game is slated for release later this year. Hopefully it's just the tip of the iceberg, and will herald the return of other of Marsh's work like Déjà vu and The Uninvited. These games have laid untouched for far too long.
This is the perfect time and place to revisit them. Think of Shadowgate like a medieval Portal, where you have to think careful to find the proper way through. And like Portal, more than half of the fun comes from the macabre, yet humorous actions of the computer in opposition of your goals. GLaDOS may have just hurled fat jokes at you. Shadowgate straight up murdered you and made fun of your corpse. The game is famous of the dozens, maybe hundreds of way that you could die, and lent a mature air of dark humor to the game that has maintained its place as a cult classic.
Marsh's favorite death? The magic mirror that upon breaking sucks you into outer space to die of suffocation. Who knows what other grimly funny murders await us in the refurnished Castle Shadowgate.
Shadowgate was one of the ten NES games I bought when Game Over opened in Houston, but my heart is still sold to the SNES.
Jef With One F is a recovering rock star taking it one day at a time. You can read about his adventures in The Bible Spelled Backwards or connect with him on Facebook.
