I highly recommend clicking your way through this one. (I love that they made a come back though). The ease of playing this point and click adventure made me give it more attention than a lot of point and click adventures do these days. This game had me laughing more than anything else.
The plot is a bit on the campy side, as well as the action. This game is pretty easy in my opinion, but that's not a horrible thing either. That's what love about Steam though, between this and the internet archive, I can finally go play all those games I couldn't play back in the day. (Back when it was new) After finally talking my parents into buying it, I was saddened to find that my computer wasn't strong enough! So here I am, 20 years later, finally playing this game.
#PHANTASMAGORIA GAME REVIEW MOVIE#
But thnakfully you can click through the movie sequences.Īs for the game itself, this is one that I wanted so badly when I was 15. Half way through the second chapter my cursor decided to only go half way up on the screen, which ultimately made me have to restart the chapter. And it comes highly recommended.įirst of all, make sure you save as often as possible. It's a classic 90's game from yesteryear that was not afraid to offend and push the envelope. The game also runs in Dosbox so it should run relatively well, barring a few tweaks here and there. But actually really helped the game age better compared to other adventure games at the time. This was done to appeal to people who don't normally play video games. Almost the entirety of the game is played using the mouse. It helps that the game was not afraid of controversy and doesn't shy away from scenes involving ♥♥♥♥ and dismemberment.Īt the time Phantasmagoria was a relatively simple game to play. It's generally paced similarly to a Stephen King story and keeps your attention really well. However the game gets progressively more and more surreal and bizarre as the storyline goes on. With time spent exploring her relationship with her husband and her relatively quirky personality.
The story starts out very slow and relatively dull. A writer who moves into a strange house owned by a man with a dark past. In Phantasmagoria, you play as Adrienne Delaney. It takes a huge amount of influences from classic Stephen King stories like the Shining although does its own unique spin on things. It was created by Roberta Williams with her company Sierra On-Line. Phantasmagoria is a very bizarre FMV game (although tame compared to something like Harvester). Although while FMV games were impressive at the time, they did not age well and are generally derided online due to the lackluster acting and simplistic gameplay.Įnter Phantasmagoria. They existed to try and bridge the gap between the 16 bit sidescrollers people were used to, and the high detail polygons of the future. FMV games are an obsolete game genre from the 1990s.