Tread into Shadowgate, the Living Castle - Let's Play the Shadowgate Remake!
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 4! Expect overflowing enjoyment of this game's quiet music track, eye-catching sparklies, remarking that Jair would look like a fool in real life, and guessing what might and might not be different on master difficulty.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 5! Expect observations on how Jair would be fascinated by snowglobes, finding extra resilient bandanas, keeping a cool head about the prospect of restarting the game, generating creative solutions using ice and water, and becoming familiar with late stage banshee symptoms.
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I need to get caught up, but I'm really enjoying seeing the similarities between this and the original (which I still have my cart for). I forked out my allowance for the strategy guide and ended up beating the game before it arrived.
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It is pretty cool how the scenes from the original get represented in the remake with a different flair. I think many rooms in Shadowgate also just have a way of being very iconic, where they seem to stick in your memory really well even if you haven't thought about the game for a long time. Seeing one of those classic rooms being remade tends to make the iconic-ness stand out.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 6! Expect musings on my favorite music track from this game, having a laborious pumpkin conclusion, observing the distinct fashion we open scrolls, and the simple joy of snowy ambience.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 7! Expect musings on how important our shield is to our mental state, trying to remember difficulty differences, listening intently at background instruments, and offering a methodical technique to save turns.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 8! Expect goblin fisticuffs, foraging foodstuffs from the bottom of well, and coming to terms that everything in Shadowgate is dirty and/or stinky.
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A word about my comments at the end of this episode: The next episode (planned for Nov 1st) is going to purely reading through the books on the library shelf, plus picking up/examining the 3 or so books we left on the desks. Some of the books on the shelf give puzzle clues and plot-specific lore, although it isn't very much and I'll reference those clues as they seem relevant to future puzzles.
The other books -- the vast majority -- contain odd-ball in-universe fiction, irrelevant lore (e.g., distant lands or events never connected to the game), plus a few jokes and references to other media.
I am keen to include this episode in its entirety for those who will find it enjoyable, but you aren't missing much if you want to jump from episode 8 to episode 10.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 10! Expect appreciation of more delightful music tracks, Jair to disregard the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, finding a loop-around shortcut, and evidence of a spider who doesn't give a crap.
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 11! Expect musings on having every kind of long metal stick, getting real tired of our one useless key, and wondering "how could there be distinct-looking darkness that is distinguishable from any other darkness?"
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 12! Expect musings on acquiring a mess of keys and spells, assigning a pet name for the left tower, appreciating good descriptive writing, and holding a moment to identify the instruments in the soft music.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 12, The Initiation into the Circle of Twelve:
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 13! Expect musings on letters that are shaped like a 'W', hugging dragons, marveling at a beckoning vista, and getting a very patient description of your garden variety sitting implement.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 13, Lakmir's Study, Throne Room, and Greeting a Wyvern
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 14! Expect musings on every room being a wizard's study, really not liking one particular rock, struggling to name a light grayish/green color, questioning the usefulness of our one shortcut, and feeling pretty darn sure we should have cured the banshee's curse by now.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 14: The Hidden Room, Fire Elemental, and a New Riddle
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 15! Expect amateur experiments with blacksmithing, Jair can't quite commit to detaching a skull from a corpse, and getting stuck on a harder riddle.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 15, Curing the Banshee's Curse
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 16! Expect Jair to still be astonished by pumpkins, getting a 2nd hint for the djinn riddle, remarking that one useless item in particular has the sole purpose of being thrown away, and encountering a higher than average concentration of poem references.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 16, Dread Pumpkin Quest
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 17! Expect musings on how lots of stuff could be "in comparison of a ghost", brawling with goblins, discussing the possibility of identifying useless items, and testing all our loose ends.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 17, Air Elemental, New Djinn Riddle, and The Rickety Bridge
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 18! Expect appreciation for the flute puzzle, not being 100% sure what a whetstone looks like, deeply analyzing two puzzles despite not having the solutions, and concluding that if no item in a collection is special, then the least special one is special.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 18, Thinking Through the Rune Puzzle and the Final Riddle
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 19! Expect a solution that we've been overlooking for a long time, deducing the story behind the wyvern and the sparrx spell, and thinking that the night sky probably doesn't contain a Starfox planet.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 19, The Staff of Ages
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Let's Play Shadowgate episode 20! Expect attempted conversations with multiple skulls, taking a better look at 3 angels, recipes to be less straightforward than they appear, while catacombs are surprisingly simple to navigate.
Let's Play Shadowgate episode 20, Recipe Machine and Battlements
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