Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
By David Wolinsky,
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Challenging, mature philosophical tale gets tons of updates.
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Masterpiece with mature content
Classic
What’s It About?
PLANESCAPE: TORMENT: ENHANCED EDITION takes place in and around the city of Sigil, a massive hub with portals to other planes of existence. You play as The Nameless One, an amnesiac man who awakens in a Sigil morgue and tries to piece together who he is and what happened to him -- and also why he can't seem to die, for good. The tone of the game doesn't shy away from disturbing, existential themes. As you progress through your journey, you'll meet other characters and people who join your party similarly grappling with their immortality as the game by and large asks you to consider what can change the nature of a person.
Is It Any Good?
If you're looking for an RPG experience that doesn't coddle you, this updated classic adventure is well worth your time. Although no game is perfect, this 2017 update of the 1999 game packs a ton of enhancements that help to get it a lot closer. Chances are if you've played an action-RPG in the last 20 years, you've played something that takes cues from or flat-out tries to imitate Planescape: Torment. The enhanced edition boasts countless gameplay updates and bug fixes to help better realize the creators' original vision for the game, with a few strictly modern concessions like a far better inventory management screen and nice frills like remastered music. These are benefits you'll enjoy whether you played the original game or not.
Still, there's no hiding the fact that is a 20-year-old game under the hood. Newcomers will likely be turned off or take a while to come around on the sheer amount of dialog and text that's in the game. The combat, similarly, is about as simple as it can get: you just click and wait. Twitchier players or those who have become accustomed to slashing, bashing, and running all around during fights in RPGs will likely only be frustrated or confused by the simpler, arguably clunkier approach. While there's no denying the game's influence on other more modern games, taken at face value, it's a refreshing and just so markedly different adventure with meaningful choices where you can forge your own path and discover so much. Other games brag about doing the same, but Planescape really does it.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about reincarnation. Do you believe in it? Why or why not?
Where do you feel your innate instincts, curiosities, and knowledge about things come from? In other words, when you come across things that are new to you, how you do start to understand them and why do you think you understand them?
Game Details
- Platforms: Mac , Windows
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: Beamdog
- Release date: April 11, 2017
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy , Adventures , Friendship , Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- ESRB rating: T for Animated Blood, Animated Violence, Suggestive Themes
- Last updated: March 8, 2019
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