3.5/5 ★ – blastr85's review of Indigo Prophecy.

This is a very inventive adventure game for consoles at the time, with a gripping narrative hook right out of the gate. I have fond memories of playing the game's opening chapter with a friend on the OXM (Official Xbox Magazine) demo disk of the month. The various ways you could cover your crime and escape the game's opening scenario, followed by then playing as the law enforcement who show up and piece together what you did or didn't manage to clean up, made for a perfect demo to playbrepeagedly and build excitement for what was to come. The music from Angelo Badalamenti offered a dramatic and cinematic quality to the demo as well. The violent nature and grounded presentation in the early goings felt rather grown-up for video games in 2005. The controls used to interact with the world, as well as the sheer amount of interactions available to the player in rather "ordinary" urban settings was an impressive level of interactivity for the time. Unfortunately, the lofty build up of the narrative about an innocent man possessed by an unknown force to commit murder balloons and begins to crumple about two thirds of the way through its 8 hour playtime. The story relies on some dated global pop culture as the backbone for its story (that was tired even then) and jumps quickly to some unearned romance, a potential global apocalypse, the main character taking off his jacket and becoming fully powered Neo from the Matrix, and a very unspecial feeling final boss encounter. And for all the potential of the branching narrative presented in that October 2005 OXM demo, which of the game's three endings you get is entirely determined by the player's success in Quick Time Events during the game's final chapter. For all the success or lackthereof (depending on your tastes) that Quantic Dream has achieved as a Sony partner developing high fidelity cinematic adventure games, none of them has ever reached the height of excitement over narrative as the first 20 minutes of Indigo Prophecy.