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Release Date | 9 November 2005 |
Release Type | Freeware |
Content Advisory | None | None | Strong |
Operating System | Windows |
Setting | Contemporary |
Genre | Horror |
Story | Original |
Play Length | Full Length Game |
Language | English |
Graphics | 320x240, 16-Bit Colour |
Downloaded | 31,118 All Time |
An epic horror/thriller game with a story that spans centuries, Prodigal is the tale of two estranged brothers thrown into a world of darkness and deceit beyond anything they could have ever conceived. Will they reconcile their shadowed and twisted past and survive the night?
Update for 6/3/2010: Prodigal has a new home on the web! Weblinks are all updated!
*****"If you are looking for a lengthy adventure title, that really has had a lot of effort put into development, look no farther than Prodigal..."***** -reloaded.org
*****"The story itself really drew me into the game and really made me want to keep playing..."***** -reloaded.org
Prodigal features in-engine FMV, …a first for an AGS game! It also features a soundtrack containing a wide range of music from horror beats, to classic blues, to the featured goth music band "Shadowplay." It contains a wide range of beautiful character art created in the Sierra style, drawn by the endlessly tallented Edgar Rocha.
*****"...the game...sometimes even changes the graphic style to a sort of comic book style, which was very nice to see and really gave the game that much more polish..."***** -reloaded.org
version 1.1 is out and recompiled on AGS 2.71 RC4. many bug fixes included, which you can read about in the version history document that comes with the game.
Trisk | Design, program, story, anim, snd, music |
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A solid game, only slightly let down by some graphical inconsistencies.
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I really enjoyed this game and I am looking forward to the sequel.
To those wanted the last story, benjamin Johnson still working on sequel. Be sure to check his website.
The download link of game is working! Give it a try! There lot of effect out into it!
Download doesn't work either way. :(
I've played many AGS games, and many great ones (Tale Of Two Kingdoms, Yhatzee's games, ...), but Prodigal might be my fave AGS game ever. It excels in transmitting a creepy atmosphere, getting an absorbing story through, and being entertaining with good puzzles and interesting locations.
It is unbelievable how much work has been put in this game by Trisk with only a couple of others to help him. The sound and music in the game are excellent too.
Still hoping that Prodigal 2 might get to see the light of day!
There's definitely ALOT of effort put in the game, designing and rendering all these backgrounds, writing tons of narrator descriptions to every piece of materia around. A story has an epic underlying basis and the ending is surprisingly dramatic (unlike false-sweet happy ends so usual for similar kind of games).
However, I must admit, there were some things in the game that made me feel uneasy, some points of imperfection. First are character sprites, especially demon ones, that looked somewhat inconsistent with those 3d backgrounds. While in the cabin it felt okay, but futher in game it looked like someone glued cartoonish character to photo image. Second is, perhaps, a sudden change of overall atmosphere happened after you left cabin and entered Demenza site. For me, personally, cabin was the most frightening part of the game, but Demenza part appeared to be rather comical in comparison. Last chapter reminded of older 1st person shooters, like Doom or Quake for some reason :).