Nightshade

Fool me once - I'm mad. Fool me twice - How could you? Fool me three times - You're officially that guy, okay? You know him, you know the one. You go to the bar and he's like, 'This suit is, uh, officially it's a Giorgio Armani, ech my dad knows him!' ♥♥♥♥ YOU! I AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIN'T HAVIN' THAT ♥♥♥♥!

This was an instant buy for me. I had fond memories of playing Nightshade on the NES. The emulator is decent, it has save state support. The full screen also has a wallpaper behind it. It is cheaper than buying Nightshade NES cart on eBay.

I didn't believe my eyes when i saw this was on here... I love this game so much! The soundtrack is super good, the puzzles are fun, and so is the combat. This game is so good.

Like a lot of folks, Nightshade (by Beam Software) was one of the best adventure games I’d ever played. Written by Paul Kidd and scored by Marshall Parker (who also did Shadowrun on Super Nintendo), the game’s design somehow makes point-and-click function smoothly on NES and blends pugilism and puzzles so perfectly that it’s more Batman than Batman! The gorgeous graphics go a long way to evoking the gothic caped crusader plot. When I found that Piko had resurrected Sutekh from his sarcophagus and put this on the Steam store, I was ecstatic! Nightshade (like Shadowrun) always felt like a PC game that had been adopted by console parents and deserved a reunion with its Lucasfilm and Sierra cousins! After four hours of play, my enthusiasm was curbed. I guess I was hoping for something…extra? Mouse support? Speed adjustments x2 x3? In truth, the publisher has literally just tossed up the original game in an emulator. I suppose this wouldn’t bother me so much, but the emulator itself is subpar. There are almost zero options to configure the game: no widescreen, few interface options, and maybe it was just me, but the hotkey to load a state did not work, forcing me to escape full screen and do it manually. That’s not the kind of mouse support I was hoping for… Suffice to say, I am giving Nightshade a thumbs-up (it’s a must play game) and Piko a thumbs-down. If nothing else, it’s nice to own a legal copy of the game I loved from my childhood.

I squealed in delight when I saw that this game was added to Steam. It's a severely underrated gem on the NES library that beautifully combines the point & click and action/adventure genres together along with also having the best writing out of any NES game. I highly encourage you to buy this gem of a game right away!

And remember, good games are great, cuz they're good!

A hidden gem of an NES game. Nightshade is an adventure game, emulated from the NES. It is not perfect, for one the hotkey to load save states doesn't seem to work. It's a more basic version of the emulator overall. But it's functional. Besides, you can take the ROM from the game data and use it in any other emulator if you wished. For the game itself? There's a lot of clever bits in it. "Game Overs", for the first four time, are not actually game over screens. You can escape the death traps. As an adventure game, most of what you have to do is understandable. There are a few points that don't make a lot of sense, but overall the game's not difficult to figure out. There are combat sections as well, and those are let down slightly by the game not being that responsive. Sometimes you'll have inputs dropped which can make you take some excess damage. And healing is limited in the game. Limited, but there ARE ways to defeat everything, usually you can figure out patterns that let you take minimal damage. So there's enough healing to go around. Once you start figuring the game out, everything fits nicely into place. I played with save states to try to mitigate damage from combat and while trying various things, but it's also a game that's gated by knowledge. So knowing what to do will help speed you through early parts of the game if you have to start over. I do recommend this game. More people should check it out. And I'm glad that someone's decided to preserve some NES games and make them accessible again, legally.

game of the year 2019

most underrated game of all time

Игра не понятная, сложная и требующая много времени, для поиска решения каждой проблемы в каждой комнате. Это квестовая игра., но и экшен тут тоже есть, он включается отдельно, после того, как ты встретишь врага. Перемещаешься по всему игровому миру свободно во вех направлениях и поднимаешь непонятные квестовые вещи, чтоб использовать их в непонятных комнатах, всё в духе тех игр бродилок 90-х. Хотелось бы дополнить, что пусть вас не смущает настоящее название игры "Nightshade Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh". Продолжение игры было в планах, но что-то не срослось.