Prophecy of the Shadow

The Good
This game has very nice VGA graphics. It also might have the first use of live action digitized "video". The interface is solid for the DOS era. That's about all the good things that I can say about it.

The Bad
The story is the standard kill the foozle. The NPCs are interchangeable and repetitive. So the writing isn't going to draw you in.

The combat is neither fun nor strategic. Combat is real time where you just keep mashing the attack button over and over till they're dead. You can use ranged weapons but it's not really any fun either. Their aren't many puzzles, and the ones that are there are too simple.

The character development is pretty simple too for an RPG.

The Bottom Line
It's a single character, real time combat RPG. Think Zelda without the fun combat, good puzzles and charm. Or Diablo without the satisfying character development and treasure hunting. It's not necessarily a bad game. It's just meant to be a beginner level RPG but it ends up being extremely boring.