Torin's Passage

Created by Al Love ( yes, one of LSL fame ) Torin's Passage is good example of old style point&click adventure games, just like a lot of other Sierra clasics. How much you will enjoy this game depends mostly of how tolerant you are to some design quirks of old p&c, like not always logical puzzles, no highlighting of interactive areas, ocasional pixel hunts, and backgrounds of charming but far from exactly high quality graphics ( ok, game is from 1995, set your expecations low ). Tho one bit of novelty is, unlike almost all of oldschool P&C, death is just slap on the wrist and loads you right back before "bad" decision. There is even easter egg related to that. Storywise, it's not bad, just there is not that much of it. Protagonist gets tricked into chase after sorcer Lycenita, does exaytly that for 99% of the game, and gets a bit of resolution at the very end. Tho understandable in contex of this was first of FIVE planed games. And yes, I got a special message from Al Love at the end. Didn't you?

A great example of classic adventure games, with a few neat tricks put into the mechanics.

I Searched All Over 4 This Game, GOG Had It All Set Up, No Coding Required In Order To Play It, GOG Does All The DOS Work For You. It Was Worth The Buy Just For The Convience To Play Without Having To Worry About DOSBox Coding.

Torin's Passage has lived rent free in my head for decades, now. I'm delighted to be able to play it again and am surprised by just how much and accurately I remembered it. Some parts have definitely aged less well than others. A lot of the jokes and references leave me scratching my head. The puzzles are either overly simplistic or aggravatingly unintuitive with little to no in-between. But the nostalgia factor does a lot to compensate for this game's flaws. :) The only way I realized I could pan across an entire scene or navigate to certain impossible-looking areas was through the hint system... Whatever! I'm having fun, and that's sort of all that matters.

I play this game every few years since it came out and it was lightyears before it's time but no one appreciated it. Excellent!