The Immortal

Description

The Immortal is an isometric action-adventure game.

Your old mentor Mordamir has disappeared. Probably kidnapped. You're not too sure where he might be, but a dungeon is always a good place to look, so you seek out the nearest one and plunge into its depths. Beware: 8 levels of isometric death await.

The Immortal is the prototype of a trial-and-error game. Progress is made by encountering a hazard, dying, solving the problem, encountering the next hazard. To solve a level, you have to know its traps and their patterns by heart. As frustrating as this may sound (it is), The Immortal quite cleverly balances annoyance with curiosity and graphical rewards. In short: You want to see what challenge lies in the next room.

The puzzles range from simple avoidance of traps to the correct use of items; you collect objects in an inventory. Every now and then, The Immortal surprises with a special challenge. For example, you've got to ride a magic carpet through a hallway full of fire traps, or ride a barrel on an underground river. The dungeon isn't empty: some friedlies may have valuable information or trade items, the nasty sort of guys will attack. Combat is fought man-to-man on a special screen. Your adversary indicates his next attack a few seconds before he executes it, so you've got time to react appropriately. You can dodge to the left or the right, as well as attack from these two directions. There is no save option in the game, of course, but you may restart each level as often as you like. Levels can be skipped by entering passwords.

Alternate Titles

• "Wizard of the Immortal" -- Japanese Title

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User Reviews

Don't Be Fooled By The Title You Are Not The Immortal!	Genesis	Classic Nigel (145)
Atmospheric. Chilling. Oh, and the death animations!	DOS	EboMike (2592)
A game that almost ruined my childhood for gaming	NES	ARProductions2009 (32)

The Press Says

VideoGame	NES	Apr, 1991		100
ST Action	Atari ST	Sep, 1993	89 out of 100	89
Nintendo Power Magazine	NES	Jan, 1991	4.3 out of 5	86
Abandonia	DOS	Jan 15, 2005	4 out of 5	80
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Jan 24, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Power Play	Genesis	Feb, 1992	78 out of 100	78
Power Play	DOS	Dec, 1991	76 out of 100	76
Power Play	Atari ST	Dec, 1990	76 out of 100	76
Power Play	Amiga	Dec, 1990	76 out of 100	76
The Video Game Critic	Genesis	Apr 24, 2004	C	50

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Trivia

This game was ported to both the Nintendo NES and Sega Genesis console systems. The NES version featured slightly lengthier dialog, simplified graphics with smaller character sprites, and both the title screen and the spider level were removed (to save space, and possibly because the titular "Immortal" was deemed "too disturbing"). The Sega Genesis version is, to my knowledge, completely faithful to the original computer release.

Both console versions feature a larger soundtrack and some more tunes than the computer version.