Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: It's a floating skull, which is why it has a floating skull character image

[quote name="Welcome to Omsk"]It's the icon, the NPC pic in the character info, the onscreen animation. When you talk to him it mentions that it is a skull. I don't know how you missed this. It's also not aged too well. It was more interesting than the usual things one saw or interacted with first thing in some fantasy RPG. And you're given explicit details eventually on how much of a shady character the skull thing is, which breaks away from typical tropes. I'm sorry that a billion other games between then and now ruined that for you or whatever, I guess you can always fall back to playing jinxter because that's the right kind of deviation from expected norms but for some of us Torment came at the right time and in the right place to be a foundation of a whole variety of nostalgia. When I played it, it defined a lot of my ideas on game narrative. Now, not so much, but it's still important for historical reasons within its genre, and this site not having a thorough writeup on its capacities and failings is another oversight.[/quote]