Perihelion: The Prophecy

[Mortmal]

http://hol.abime.net/1029

Anyone played it ? and more important, anyone finished it ?
Its one of the rare amiga rpg i have not played when it was released , theres a help text on lemonamiga, but i cant find any walkthrough, no manual either.
Once my party is created i am supposed to go talk to someone at location A, but what is that location A? all i see is some barren landscape with only the city being interactable and i find no one to talk to, just an empty house with a terminal.
Damn games were hard...

 

[Mortmal]

71 view and no answers, bah i should have asked tips about oblivion or fallout 3 here instead, guess theres not many people with vast rpg knowledge.

 

[JarlFrank]

We had a thread about this before I guess. Two threads, even. Most people who played it said it was bad. I played the demo and found it to be quite mediocre. Just try it for yourself. It's nothing special. Just trying to sell copies by having nudity, I guess.

EDIT:
Forget what I said, I remembered another game with a similar name which was a really crappy indie 3D RPG. This actually looks interesting. Haven't played it though.

 

[ghostdog]

Obviously you suck at using google. : http://perihelion.webz.cz/guideeng.html

Open it with IE. The english is crappy but you'll get the picture.

 

[made]

Anyone played it ?

yes

anyone finished it ?

no

In fact, I never got past the first city. The game is just so... intimidating. Party generation alone is like a whole minigame in itself. I wish someone made a LP of an obscue game like this instead of the generic stuff we usually get instead. I vote mondblut. It has tons of stats and turn-based combat!

 

[Mortmal]

ah yes the page works now, i usually use firefox, so when i found that page i just discarded it, as it was not working, couldnt think of something as vile and counternature than using internet explorer , thanks for your help.
The game is intidimitading yes, but i dont fear a challenge!

 

[ghostdog]

ah yes the page works now, i usually use firefox, so when i found that page i just discarded it, as it was not working, couldnt think of something as vile and counternature than using internet explorer , thanks for your help.
The game is intidimitading yes, but i dont fear a challenge!

It's probably made with some old version of Front Page. FP was notorious for adding shitty code to the htmls , so that they only worked with IE.

 

[ecliptic]

ah yes the page works now, i usually use firefox, so when i found that page i just discarded it, as it was not working, couldnt think of something as vile and counternature than using internet explorer , thanks for your help.
The game is intidimitading yes, but i dont fear a challenge!

Opens fine in Opera.

 

[Grim Monk]

Edvard Toth the Lead Designer of the game, has made it available for free on his site.
The game comes with a preconfigured emulator, for people who use Windows.

Link: http://edvardtoth.com/games/perihelion/#.T0DR-vEgfTB


Sadly, the emulator doesn't seem to work on Win 7, couldn't even get it to start up...

 

[Wolfus]

Download it here as a preconfigured package, if you have registered WHDLoad:
http://hobring.esero.net/games.htm
I finished it several times.

 

[made]

I wish someone made a LP of an obscue game like this instead of the generic stuff we usually get instead.

So I see we've had one meanwhile.
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lets-play-perihelion-the-prophecy.43022/
It didn't get very far.

 

[Renegen]

I have the game downloaded, I just havent started on my Amiga adventure to really crack it open and start playing. From what I read the game is somewhat short, great atmosphere and very tough combat. Looks amazing though.

 

[Wolfus]

Just the first combat is tough. If you'll be able to win without shooting, you can consider game beaten. Be careful, because there is no ammo to pick in whole game!

 

[Luzur]

i have tried it before on amiga, since i remember there was speech in the intro and something about being on Mars.

 

[ForeverdarkWoods]

Well, it looks nice, you can say that much. Really pretty graphics and I like the artsyle. Game itself is nothing but a ton of wasted potential though. You get that feeling throughoutthe entire game that it could have been something great, but just didin't get there.

Maybe worth 1 playthrough, if you can stand how frustrating it is at times. Not worth a replay.

 

[made]

Well, the whole game has been developed by 3 kids from the Amiga demo scene who clearly had no prior experience in game design. The rule set and overall design is an imitation of Gold Box/AD&D but they obviously didn't have the license so came up with their own half-baked system. All things considered, a commendable effort and very reminiscent of other Amiga games of the time in how it came into existence.