Planescape Torment has the single greatest story in gaming history, riveting, epic in scope yet so intimate that each character’s struggle become your personal burden, you cry tears of joy at their triumph and lament with them at their failure. Just about every single character, even the obligatory side quests fillers are fully developed, making you feel like you experiencing a living breathing world. Word fails me at just how amazing this game really is but I’ll give it my best shot.
What can change the nature of a man? A story that spans millennia started with this single question, or rather; a question that was asked long before the game ever started like a long ago legend that is intimately connected to the protagonist. History and memory intermingle as you play a amnesiac immortal who wakes up in a mortuary in the company of a floating talking skull and with only a tattoo edged on your blue-skinned back giving you the first clue to start a story that will takes you from the land of dream and belief to the very bowl of hell itself.
On the way you meet an interesting cast of characters that range from the intense to the bizarre, each as vivid and full of history as the protagonist, each as lovingly crafted as the main character of an epic novel. Together you and your companion delve into your forgotten past, experiencing trial and tribulation, finding knowledge, wisdom, painful memory and love in all its form. Slowly you piece back your memory fragment by tormenting fragment until all that is left is the question that has haunted you for a near eternity; what can change the nature of a man?
A game that last the test of time, because its story is timeless; no other game has ever come close to making its story sing to you like a siren, its haunting melody lulling you into oblivion with a sad melancholic smile of absolute contentment.
