Amiga

Agony

Description

This horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up features six long levels, all with detailed and mellow background graphics, aiming for a less hectic feel than contemporaries such as Project X. As a magician's apprentice, you have been turned into an owl to give you the best chance of destroying the many dark creatures to be faced, and thus discovering the secret of cosmic strength.

These dark creatures include piranhas, giant ants and mosquitoes. Extra weapons and invincibility periods can be collected. The technical details include 3 layers of multi-directional parallax scrolling, background animation, and different title and in-game music.

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User Reviews

Sideways scrolling shooter with top quality visuals	Neepie Lantern (487)
An amazing game.	Mark Papadakis (31)	unrated

The Press Says

Amiga Action	Feb, 1992	86 out of 100	86
Amiga Joker	Feb, 1992	81 out of 100	81
Pixel-Heroes.de	Dec, 2004	8 out of 10	80
Amiga Power	May, 1992	78 out of 100	78
Pelit	Feb, 1992	78 out of 100	78
Power Play	Apr, 1992	59 out of 100	59
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Jun, 1992	6 out of 12	50

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Trivia

The non-playable demo of the game contains following information: "After starting up with an over 50 takes long animated intro sequence Agony will lead you through 6 worlds." The problem is that there is no intro sequence in the final release of the game. Franck Sauer (from the development team) was kind enough and provided precise information about the missing intro for Agony:

"There was an animated intro sequence that was supposed to be included into the game and explained its backstory in more detail. That sequence had been animated by fellow artist Marc Albinet but didn't make it into the game mainly because it would have required one or two more disks and given the quality wasn't really on par with the in-game art, Psygnosis and Yves Grolet (lead programmer) decided it was not worth it."