What is there not to love about a game like that? I did some quick internet hunting around to see what I could learn about the company and the development team itself. An adventure game with a female protagonist, set against a lush tropical backdrop, based on Brazilian “myths”, developed by a small indie Brazilian company that promised that we would be able to watch the protagonist grow from birth to adulthood. So when I saw the beautiful pictures of Swordtale’s Toren in the PSN marketplace I got a little giddy. And point and clicks will always have a spot in my heart, Grim Fandango for it’s noir style and quirky humor and The Longest Journey for showing me what a strong female protagonist could look like (and that queer folks could exist in games). The King’s Quest games I remember because they were my first “real” games with pictures on my ancient Tandy computer. Some of those games have been better than the others. Text based adventure games, monochromatic adventure games with crazy little pixelated figures that “moved” from screen to screen along with the story, 8-bit, 16-bit, cel shaded, PC, console, mobile…you name it.
I have spent a lot of my last 40 years playing adventure games.
