It's Halloween time over at Gameshark.com and it's finally time for me to cover a game that I've been putting off writing about for years. It's THE GOTHIC GAME, one of the best and most painfully obscure games you can possibly imagine. I first played it sometime around 1994-1995 when Frank Branham, whom I didn't really know at the time, spied me and my gothed-out friends and thought we might dig it. We did. I wouldn't play it again until almost a decade later when Robert Martin practically insisted we play it at every single gaming session. The good news is that the game is a blast, and if you have played it you either love it or you're a dirty spreadsheet-minded Eurogamer.
That link is telling me that I'm not allowed there.
For a second, I thought you were going to review Gother Than Thou, a clever little cardgame that manages to capture the essence of the goth experience with just a deck of cards.
Then I realized that you are literally referring to The Gothic Game. For a while, I was really coveting this game, until I finally realized that I was probably never going to be able to buy it at a reasonable price. Then I decided that this game seems to be the triumph of style over substance, and that gameplay would seem lacking after maybe a dozen games. It looks fantastic and darkly humorous, but humor tends to have a limited replay value, whether in comedy albums or in boardgames.