Talisman Prologue HD

 iOS
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16
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  1. wolverine101
    Sep 3, 2013
    1
    It has no computer opponents how it could get 8 from gamefans is beyond me the next version may get a higher score from me because it will be fun with computer players the way it is now is a game we got charged for that wasn't finished
  2. TheEnchantress
    Apr 29, 2013
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ridiculously addictive and a real companion for the board game version as it will teach you a lot of the finer points of this game. Can't wait for the multiplayer version later in the year. Go Nomads!… Expand
  3. slickriptide
    Mar 24, 2014
    7
    As a phone-sized simulation of the original board game, Talisman Prologue HD delivers what it promises. Overall, I found it to be pretty much just like I remembered the basic board game to play, without any of the later expansions. The big difference is that it 's a single player "campaign". There are no computer AI opponents and no multi-player function.

    The game makes up for that by    As a phone-sized simulation of the original board game, Talisman Prologue HD delivers what it promises. Overall, I found it to be pretty much just like I remembered the basic board game to play, without any of the later expansions. The big difference is that it 's a single player "campaign". There are no computer AI opponents and no multi-player function.

    The game makes up for that by presenting the board game sessions as a series of "quests" with objectives that the player must meet in lieu reaching the Crown of Command. As an example, one of the warrior quests involves spending a certain number of turns building your strength, after which a "flight of dragons" arrive, which is accomplished by pulling every dragon card from the encounter pile and putting them in various places around the board. Defeating all of the dragons completes the quest and ends the game.

    This sort of gameplay necessarily means that "losing a turn" is mostly a dead penalty. Likewise, being forced to drop cards (due to over-limit inventory, or changing alignment, or other factors) is not as painful as in the cardboard version due to there being no opponents to happen by and pick up the dropped cards.

    A player who completes all of the quests for a character is awarded a talisman token. The game does not actually say what the token is, or what it's good for, making it less of a completionist incentive than it might otherwise be.

    One useful feature is the ability to save your progress in the cloud. If you have Prologue on mulitple devices, you can transfer your progress around between them, and presumably it will also transfer to Digital Edition on a computer if you own that.

    As a faithful adaptation of the board game, it also suffers the faults of the board game, including games that can run on for a very long time. Players motivated by nostalgia for the board game will have no problems with that. New players whose first experience with Talisman is this single-player app may find that it starts to drag after a while.

    The UI is perfectly playable on my Galaxy S3. My only complaint is that it asks for confirmation of nearly every action. It would be desirable, speaking as an experienced player, if the confirmations could be dialed down or turned off after a certain point. I'd rather make a mistake and learn to avoid that mistake in the future than spend every single turn verifying on every single action that yes, I really do want to take that action.

    Disclosure: I "purchased" the app free from Amazon as one of their daily free apps. The normal price is $2.99. Given that I have fond memories of Talisman and the app is an adequate and faithful reproduction of the board game, I would have no qualms about paying $2.99 for it. I might have wanted to try it out first, though.    … Expand

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#100 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2013

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. TouchArcade
    May 13, 2013
    70
    If Talisman is new to you, Prologue can be a good way to see if you want to invest your time and money in the boxed or digital versions of this flawed but enjoyable classic.
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  2. 148Apps
    May 1, 2013
    70
    It's pretty, and it will certainly conjure memories, but Talisman: Prologue is only an appetizer - not the main course.
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  3. Quarter to Three
    Apr 29, 2013
    40
    These canned side quests are a pretty poor substitute for whatever entertainment you and your friends might normally wring from a real-world copy of Talisman.
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