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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 22, 2004
- Total Downloads: 151,996
- Downloads last week: 71
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 36 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
With its Legend of Zelda-style graphics and gameplay, this retro role player conjures nostalgic memories of game systems past. You play a young adventurer who leaves home to stop the fulfillment of an evil prophecy. You explore the world around you, getting advice from different characters and collecting various artifacts. The game abounds with opportunities and choices. You can build a party of up to four characters, choose from a laundry list of magic spells, even get married. We admit, chunky 2D graphics and ultrabasic character interaction don't do it for us like they used to. But we found the game's twee period music a guilty pleasure that reminded us of our last visit to Ye Olde Renaissance Faire. And considering the game's free, you get a heck of a lot of adventuring for your money. If you're fond of console role-playing games, chances are you'll have a good time with Ahriman's Prophecy.Publisher's description
From Amaranth Games :Explore a medieval fantasy world to stop a dark prophecy. You must embark on more than 40 quests, fighting monsters to gain strength, status, and power. How you destroy Ahriman depends on the choices you make during your journey. You can become evil or holy, persuade other characters to join you on your journey, get extra help from a guild, steal, or even get married if you feel like it.
In version 2.1 several bugs have been fixed; 75 percent of the graphics have changed; and 30 percent of the music has changed.
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- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 36 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Ahriman's Prophecy 2.1
Pros: The RPG is great, it had music, sounds, everything. I was playing this game while I was trying to get XP reinstalled in my computer.
Cons: I don't understand it ... the battle system, keyboard controls, everything you have to use a controller for, it's just to darn hard to handle. And I agree with most people about the monsters making cheap shot attacks. Like, the only game I was familiar with growing up as a kid was "EarthBound", and even that battle system is better compared to this one.
Oh yeah, I did have to patch the font to get it readable also w/o problems.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ahriman's Prophecy 2.1
Pros: Fun, addictive, nice storyline, nice and very suitable music, small download, easy controls (for keyboard)
Cons: Font hard to read, very basic battle system. But hey, IT'S FREE.
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: Ahriman's Prophecy 2.1
Pros: Nice console rpg style graphics, good story, not bad for a free game.
Cons: In my opinion the way battles are carried out let the game down. It's done Secret of Mana style (a good game btw), but you have to be pretty much EXACTLY adjacent to the enemy you're fighting in order to hit with a melee weapon. Thing is, every time you are adjacent to the enemy, they hit you about 90% of the time, so you're pretty much trading hits. Also, every time you run past an enemy, you will get "hit" when you are already halfway across the screen.
I've since deleted this game out of frustration.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Ahriman's Prophecy 2.1
Pros: Loved the environment and the quests. Thought the characters were quirky. I had so much fun that I couldn't stop playing!
Cons: Battle system was too simple.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ahriman's Prophecy 2.1
Summary: I luv this game! reminds me of the classics and it's long. my favorite parts were choosing my guild (I became a witch), turning monsters into toads, and digging up graves (morbid, I know hehe). There were also lots of fun quests, the types you find ... read more >>
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