The introduction to the game is a beautiful combination of two and three dimensional graphics. You, of course, are a witness to the whole thing and are shocked, and thus begins the adventure to find out where your step-parents have been abducted and who has abducted them. She then teleports them somewhere (you only find out where much later), and disappears. Another wizard, an ugly looking woman, appears on the farm and "freezes" his foster parents, making them look like statues. He is a typical teenager who now works on the family's farm and he has a pet - a strange shape shifting creature called Boogle, who throughout the game becomes quite useful by "morphing" into needed objects. He has been brought up by a foster family, the Farmins, and has no idea who he really is. The nanny finds out what has happened and runs away with the prince to a safe place.įast forward to a few years later, when Torin has grown up into a muscular teenager. Their only child, a baby, escapes death because at the time of the murders, he is being nursed by his nanny outside. The royal couple are murdered by an evil wizard while they are sleeping. The essential story line of the game is not very original. Imagine peeling one layer off of the planet and finding a new one underneath. This time around, Lowe embarks on another type of comedy adventure on a magic fantasy world called Strata, that holds five lands, one underneath the other. His effort was pretty good, and Freddy was quite funny. His last game prior to Torin's Passage was called Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist. Tired of making games of our favorite loser Larry, Lowe had moved away from his "adult" type humor and tried to show the gaming world that he had a full sense of humor, not just one that involved sexual innuendo. Torin's Passage is a 1995 offering from Al Lowe, of Leisure Suit Larry fame. To facilitate the puzzle-solving, the game has a built-in hint system using the hints will deduce points from the player's score. The game also has many traditional inventory-based tasks as well as other types of puzzles. During their journey, Boogle will learn how to turn into a variety of objects, which is essential for solving many of the game's puzzles. Torin interacts with characters and objects in a point-and-click fashion, and can also use Boogle's special shape-shifting abilities. What he doesn't know is that this journey will also help him to discover his true origins and his true purpose in life.Ĭreated by Al Lowe of Leisure Suit Larry fame, Torin's Passage is a fairy tale-like humorous adventure with cartoon-style graphics and animations. He must now travel to distant lands to find a way to remove the spell and confront the sorceress. Apparently, the spell was cast by a sorceress named Lycentia. One day he returns home, only to find out his parents were imprisoned in a magical spell. Torin is a young boy who lives in a little country house on a planet called Strata with his parents and with his purple cat-like friend Boogle.
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