Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
SORCERER BY CALLING. HERO BY ACCIDENT. As Orphen, the powerful but lazy sorcerer, you've always thought being a hero was too much work. But now, you don't have a choice. Harnessed into a risky adventure, you…
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery is an adventure developed by Shade, released 3 August 2000 on PlayStation 2.
What Orphen: Scion of Sorcery is
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery is an adventure game developed by Shade and released in 2000. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tricked by Volcan into sailing to the merchant city of Arvanrama on the premise of "easy money," Orphen and his friends quickly find themselves in trouble when monsters attack their ship. Somehow, they all make it off the sinking vessel safely, only to find themselves stranded on Chaos Island, together with three other travelers: Sephy, Zeus, and Mar. They set off to explore the island and learn of a time-traveling object. Upon beating one of the three traveler's scenarios, you are given the choice to go back in time and replay the story to help out a different character, or end the game there. After helping all three fellow ship passengers, the final battle initiates, in which you learn…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery launched on 3 August 2000, within three weeks of Paper Mario, Grandia II, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child and Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Paper Mario, Grandia II, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000.
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