Torin's Passage

General




Long ago on the planet Strata, the King and Queen of the Lands Above were viciously murdered through a magic spell concocted by an evil magician. By sheer luck their infant son escaped his parents' faith as his nanny had just removed him from his cradle. Upon witnessing the magic spell, the nanny fled with the baby into the dark stormy night.

Years later, a young man named Torin witnesses from afar how his parents are kidnapped from their farmhouse with a magic spell. A cloaked man, who saw the event from close by, tells Torin that his parents are kidnapped by an evil sorceress, Lycentia, who was expelled to the Lands Below many years ago.

Determined to free his parents, Torin travels through the nested world of Strata through jungles, canyons and lava-filled worlds, all the way to the core of the planet, known as the Null Void. On his adventure he meets many interesting characters, such as the snails Slim and Slime, the strange inhabitants of Escarpa, and the beautiful Leenah with whom Torin falls in love.

Boogle, Torin's furry companion, is a shape-shifting creature who can take forms of any item he encounters, and is therefore, in addition to a loyal friend, crucial for Torin to accomplish his adventure.
But why did this Lycentia kidnap his parents and why was she banished from the Lands Above? And who was the strange cloaked man? Torin will learn he is much more than the son of simple farmers.

Writer and designer Al Lowe, who also designed the Leisure Suit Larry series, went into a whole new direction with this game. His idea for Torin's Passage sprung in 1994 after watching the film Mrs. Doubtfire with his daughter. He realized during that film that the audience, young and old, had two different kinds of senses of humor, laughing throughout the movie on different places. He developed a game which appeals to all generations. He actually planned Torin's Passage to become a series of 5 games, each covering a significant period in Torin's life. The next 4 games would have been 2) Torin's marriage and assumption of the throne 3) "the rebels strike back" in which Torin's leadership would be challenged 4) the "coming of age", a story about his sons and their fight to be next in line for the throne and 5) the "passing of the torch" in which Al planned to include Torin's death. Alas, due to Sierra's acquisition and Ken Williams' departure from Sierra, it wasn't meant to be and the rest of the series was never developed. That however does not reduce the unique storyline, characters and graphics of this first installment, a true gem among classic Sierra adventures.


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External links

- Torin's Passage at SierraHelp
- Torin's Passage at MobyGames
- Torin's Passage at Wikipedia