Torin's Passage

Man, this game is bad. The animation is bad. The story is bad. The puzzles are bad. The humor is bad. The voice-acting is mostly bad. The only decent things in it are the background images in some areas and the music. Unless you are a die-hard fan of Sierra adventure games, I suggest you avoid this one.

This forgotten Sierra classic is definitely worth getting. It takes awhile for the game to get going, but once it does it is absolutely lovable. The charm is great and the humor is wonderful. The animation is just a tiny bit above CDi, but it's tolerable. The game is surprisingly more like a LucasArts game: you can't make the game unwinnable, you have a try again button, and the puzzles are hard. There is a hint system, but it is almost useless. My favorite part of the game is the Bitternuts, a parody of 1950s sitcoms.

A fantasy point and click game where you have to explore five "under-worlds" to find your parents kidnapper, at certain parts of the game you will probably get an "Alice in Wonderland" feel. . The puzzle are divided in two categores, the standard point and click puzzles where you have to use item X on character/item Z and the classic puzzle like "align the tiles", "find the correct path on the platforms" and so on. Puzzles that fall on the first category are for the most part simple but in many cases a a lot of pixel hunting is required or moon logic is involved. Game is short, around 5-6 hours and there is a lot of backtracking but fortunately you can increase the walking speed or totally skip the movement part by right clicking with mouse. Why two stars? The setting is fine, the jokes were for me funny and the music is good, but i didn't really like much the amount of pixel hunting required to solve some of the puzzles. Additionally the game crashed 3-4 times first time, i experienced that on SCUMMVM! I recommend to buy it on sale.

It's an old game, plays like one, looks like one. Taking that into account I still love this game. I played it as a child, and play it as an adult.

This game was quite possibly the best game of my childhood (as a PC gamer), and finding it on gog for 6 bucks to be able to play again on Windows 7 makes me so friggin' happyyy! As a point & click adventure game LOVER, this game was, and still is, SO super awesome. Silly but funny humor, great cartoony graphics and a cute and interesting storyline to follow. Admittedly, I used a walk-through to complete the game as a kid because it wasn't easy to figure out everything (which is good, the game lasts longer), but it was so freaking fun. Replaying it now is still exciting, even though I already know it. I read somewhere that this was meant to be a series, like King's Quest, but didn't do well so it was just dropped. I was SO disappointed. I'm studying Game Design now and hope to bring back these awesome and fun point & click adventure games. Seriously. There are not enough f***ing amazing games like this available nowadays to satiate the Adventure Gamer's thurst! So SAD.