The Blind Prophet

The Blind Prophet is beautifully atmospheric but sadly very flawed.
This French indie game is very short and basic, even for the point & click genre.
Just look at the one sentence description on Steam that explains nothing..
Firstly, I will praise the amazing comic book art style and great sound design.
It is genius to promote your mediocre comic through a game as the comic book market is oversaturated and even somewhat decent works are easily buried under tons of Marvel and DC schlock.
While the game sadly lacks any voice acting, the ambient music adds greatly to the comic book vibe.
The puzzles were decent but very few and pretty easy.
The timed events did force the player to act quickly but having to read makes it impossible to pass these events on the first try, so you have to die a few times to figure out the solution. I get what they were going for, but putting Action into text-based point & click games never made any sense or success.
The story was interesting and some characters were somewhat funny and sympathetic but because the game was so short, it all felt very rushed. It is a point & click game, you could have made it longer for story's sake. This is a game, not an actual comic book, you don't have to care about pacing or feel cornered! Or maybe they simply wanted to be one and done with this project? ...From what we have seen, it clearly seems so.
I started noticing translation errors appear more often in the 2nd half of the game. Many have complained about it.
It has been 5 years and the devs didn't bother proof-checking their work?!? Shows their attitude towards their work..
Why should I check out their future games if that is how they treat their product?
I get it, the developers are French, but even using Google translate would fix like 50% of the basic English grammar errors!!
Don't buy at the ridiculous full price, on sale it is around $2 which is fine enough for such a flawed little game.
Also no achievements? Shows the devs really did want to wash their hands off this project and leave.
Check it out if only because of the art style. Otherwise, I would not recommend it.

The music and art are absolutely on point, and that's absolutely why you and I are here.
But the writing is a bit menial - not bad but kinda predictable & tropey in a seen-that-coming-from-a-mile-off kinda way + the odd leftover unresolved plot thread or two.
Plus, the religious theming and moral preaching may or may not sit right with you, for more than one reason - both strongly religious and atheist progressive people will find plenty to poke holes into...
The puzzles are alright - fairly standard and no Sierra moon logic.
Though as is usually the case for P&C Adventure games, the prologue has by far the best item based puzzles and the densest array of puzzles, npcs and interactions. It tapers off towards the end a lot, and making a grappling hook from rope/wire and a random bit of scenery works once, not in every chapter...
Engaging for an evening, vibing to the style and music, but nothing I'd recommend for full price.
Good for a sale.

A cool point&click that plays more like an interactive graphic novel than anything else (it's exceedingly easy, especially for fans of the genre). However, the artwork and story are endearing enough to motivate you till the end.

A unique story! It was quite fun and the puzzles were challenging but not enough to bring tears and swearing. It would be nice to have sequel.

Great art direction and writing, soundtrack and effects are good, but mixing is iffy in some scenes, a few puzzles were annoying.

Nice game to relax on the couch and go through the puzzles and enjoy is stunning art. Lore and story is really good. Greatly recommend if you like point and click adventures

A nice little point and click game. I admit I needed a walkthrough for some parts, but it's not too onerous. I got lucky and didn't hit any bugs. Got it for 3 dollars on sale - I'd say it's worth it.