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This ain't My Little Pony

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 28
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty sophisticated game that offers a pretty good experience, on the whole. The story is about a mysterious plague that has overcome the realms where elves, nymphs, gnomes, and trolls once prospered. The plague has magically twisted them into evil creatures. Some of them fled to the land of the unicorns, which was unaffected by the plague. A white unicorn (Pryzm) and a cranky troll (Karrok) set out to use their magic to turn back the plague and restore the four realms to their former glory. Karrok rides on Pryzm's back, and both of them wield magical healing powers that they use to convert plagued creatures they encounter back to their former peaceful selves.

Much of the designers' work apparently went into the scenery and intricate level designs. The scenery is amazing, and there are a lot of details thrown in to make the environments more realistic. Every tree is different, as is every house. No two caves are alike. Broken fences, barrels, boxes, carts, wooden walkways, bridges, and working machinery round out the other details that come to mind. All of this brings the world of Pryzm to life, and it all looks realistic. There are farm animals present in some of the levels, as well as wolves and polar bears. The hills are properly rounded, and textured with rocks, twigs, grass, and flowers.

There are a lot of extra areas in the various realms that you don't have to visit in order to complete the game. This gives it a more realistic feeling, like the realms were designed to be functional to their denizens, instead of just having been designed for the purpose of the player traversing the game. All of this adds atmosphere to the game, giving the impression that you're really in this fantasy world. It's vivid and full of life.

The elves, nymphs, gnomes, and trolls all look appropriately realistic, both in plagued form and when they're converted back to normal. This isn't a cartoon.

Much of the game-play revolves around finding and converting evil plague flowers into peaceful flowers. Pryzm and Karrok have to use their healing magic to attack and convert the flower's guardians, then they can attack and convert the flower. Basically, the entire game is about using healing magic to heal people from an evil affliction, instead of the usual "hack-n-slash the monsters to pieces". You prevail against evil by healing it of its twisted nature. I like this. It's different.

After you've converted all of the flowers in a realm, you get to face off with a boss to finish off the last of the plague in that realm.

This game is pretty challenging, on the whole. Some parts are too easy while others are extremely difficult. I kept coming back to try again, though, because this game is so absorbing. You get unlimited lives, and the last flower you converted is your safe-spot/restart-point if you get defeated in battle.

The controls are easy to use, and you get to use the right analog stick to direct Karrok's melee staff attack. I don't have any difficulty with it. There's also a vibration function that's really nice. From the soft vibration when you convert a flower, to the menacing vibration of rising lava, it all adds atmosphere to the experience. The rising lava vibration in particular is a very nice embellishment that adds to the intensity of that encounter (it's in a boss level).

The music and sound effects aren't anything great. They're okay. The music does a fine job of setting the mood, and the sound effects are alright. A couple of them can get rather irritating at times, like the buzzing of a serpent fly as it relentlessly pursues you. The dialogue between Pryzm and Karrok as they traverse the realms becomes redundant after a while. They could have used more variety of lines. The voice acting is great, though. One nice little detail: The sound of Pryzm's hooves on the ground changes when she steps from earthen ground onto a wooden walkway or metal surface.

All said and done, Pryzm: The Dark Unicorn is a surprisingly good game that offers a lot in the visual department while coming up a little short in others. The vividly rendered fantasy realms here are worth prancing through. My verdict: thumbs way up. An absorbing game that looks great.

Awful, awful, awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 31 / 38
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is just horrible. Levels are boring and uninspired. Player control is weak (jumping, using magic). Enemies are not difficult to beat, just annoying (they instantly come back). Gameplay is repetitive. Destroy a flower, then another, and another, and another... And the character "dialogue" started repeating within seconds. Even cheap as this game is, it's not worth it. I had read it was like Spyro (which I think is a great game, clever with very smooth control), which is why I got it, but it's nothing like Spyro, it's just lousy and boring.

Too much trouble for the reward

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been so much better if it weren't so dang impossible. The controls don't help; they're hard to get ahold of. The enemies' constant regeneration wears on your nerves after a while. Also, some of the scenery is so dark, you can't actually see what's going on.
The only way I could get past the second stage is by cheating.
(For those who are interested, save game as SUPREMEMAGIC and you become invincible and with limitless magic. Once you're invincible with unlimited magic, the game becomes the tiniest bit less impossible.)
The movie sequences are about ten seconds long, and there's a lot of frustrating game play in between.
If you can get it cheap, go ahead and try it.

A Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a good game to play over the weekend then 'Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn' is the right game for you. This great action/adventure game is very fun to play and has wonderful graphics, good gameplay, and a spectacular storyline. 'Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn' is a game that I highly recommend you buy.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game was awesome the controls the battling everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only problem was the villians they werent that great other than that this game is awesome

How monotonous!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow. The controlls are really hard! One side of the controller contols the unicorn and the other side controls the mage. If that wasn't difficult enough, dying is quite easy as if you don't destory the enemies in a certain amount of time, they come right back. Although you do have an unlimited number of lives, it gets annoying after a while.

On that note, you run around saving flowers! Okay, that was fine for the first four levels, but after that, I quit. The whining ever-repeating diolouge of the charecters got old quick.

How can anybody play it through to the end? The storyline was okay, a little weak but okay. The little book that came with it was more interesting!

This Game Is Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love the action this game gives off! Pryzm is a very fun game to play!

Something for a rainy day

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall this is a pretty good game to play if you have nothing better to do on a weekend. The storyline was decent and it didn't have those incredibly long cut scenes. The reincarnating enemies got a little old but all in all it was a good game. It got really repetitive after a while though and extremely easy. A FAQ I looked at had all this complicated and long stuff for all the boss fights but all you really had to do was swing the staff. The cheats were also very helpful: Name it SUPREMEMAGIC and you will have unlimited everything and all the levels will be unlocked and hit: left right left right up down up down and the level you are on will be completed.

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