Torin's Passage
Overview
 
Torin's Passage is a graphic adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 developed and released by Sierra On-Line
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams...

, designed by Al Lowe
Al Lowe
Al Lowe is an American musician and game designer/programmer who developed several adventure games, mostly for Sierra On-Line. He is best known for his creation of Leisure Suit Larry and the long-running series it spawned....

. The game holds the distinction of being a family friendly game by Lowe, designer of the adult-oriented Leisure Suit Larry
Leisure Suit Larry
Leisure Suit Larry is a series of adventure games written by Al Lowe and published by Sierra from 1987 to 2009. The main character, whose full name is Larry Laffer, is a balding, dorky, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing "loser" in his 40s...

series of games.
The player interacts with Torin and the in-game environments using a point-and-click
Point-and-click
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button , or other pointing device...

 interface. Placing the cursor over certain "hot spots" in the environment allows him to move around, examine things and pick up items. There is also an inventory system used to access the items Torin collects during the course of the game.
Quotations

I just – I just don't want to live my life without ever having lived my life.

Intro

Looks like the old boy took the square root pie and split! Hope he doesn't get a "divide by zero" error.

The Lands Above

And as this one simple shard completes the connection between the formerly distinct spectrum above us, so too therefore may our two worlds be connected by the … uh … peace, and … ah … understanding that … uh … comes from … you know … ah … like that there.

Escarpa

Wow, Boogle. It looks brown and soft and it smells terrible. We've just got to get some of that!

Escarpa

Looks like rain approaching … huh! I wonder if Boogle could be an umbrella.

Observing Pergola

Well, it's nice to see a military-industrial complex with a sense of humor! … Of course, maybe that's why there's no one left around here.

Asthenia

Let me guess … another console.

Asthenia

"Warm up"? Did you say "warm up"? It's really not that cold in here.

Talking to stage manager

No, not the Null Void! (Exactly where I want to go!)

Tenebrous

Hey Boogle! Let's go.

 
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