Posted on: October 28, 2025

BlackLabHorus

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Great classic

Thanks for bringing such a classic.

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Posted on: November 2, 2025

F1uffster

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Classic corny gorefest!

Cannot believe this game is 30yrs old! Takes me back to my teens. I loved this game, it was so good in its time! The nostalgia carried me through and I've just played it through in one 7hr sitting! A few scenes made me more than uncomfortable but thats just a commentary on its age I guess!

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Posted on: November 15, 2025

Lex8P

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Easy & Cheesy Memories From Way Back

I remember when the folks bought this on release. Came with 7 CDs. Awesome soundtrack that stuck with me for all these years, with the puzzles and how to solve, also embedded in memory. Ran great on Win 11. A couple freezing crashes, but as I save often, no biggy. Short game, if you remember how to play it. I prefer the difficult ending where you run around like a madwoman tryng to get everything you need. But chose this time to actually get things in order. Time now to play the second game. Defo recommend, especially if you've never experienced this originally.

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Posted on: November 1, 2010

CaveSoundMaster

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How to make a Z-grade horror movie enjoyable

First of all I don't agree with what many reviewers complain about - lack of complexity of puzzles and short playtime. Firstly becouse this game has enormous amount of "unnecessary content". If you only focus on what's necessary, you finish the game in mere hours. Finding all the "cool" stuff is quite tricky. I haven't seen the game with so many stuff you can miss if you follow just the main plotline. Secondly the game was MEANT to be simple and movie-like. It's like accussing a netbook that it has a small size monitor. Sure playing SHD movies won't do but that's not what the netbook is for. That being said, one must admit - the script is awful and consist of the most cliched horror tricks, acting ranges from mediocre to terrible, music, camera angles, directing, tension - all of this is plain silly. If it was a movie, i wouldn't bother. But as an "interactive movie" it has its charm. First of all, as a piece of gaming history. Secondly, i actually immersed myself in the gameplay, just by the fact that I was directing the protagonist, that i was the player, exploring the mansion, wondering what happens next. Thridly, well, it's just unexplainable, this kitschy, nostalgic charm. The creators were too much focused on the ideal of an "interactive movie" so they tried to force on the player what i would call "fake replayability". By that i mean that if you do things in the certain order you progress further without being able to backtrack and see what scenes you have missed and most of the time you cannot reload becouse there's just one save slot. If you die at the end and choose to quit instead of retry, then the whole game saves as a "movie with a bad ending". That's a bit unfair. If you want a really good fmv type game, see Gabriel Knight 2. If you're a kitsch-loving freak or are interested in the history of computer gaming you have to take a look on this one.

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Posted on: March 30, 2010

tacossmellgood

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not a game, more of an interactive story

There are some interesting aspects to Phantasmagoria. The visuals are cool. and the campy horror atmosphere is well done. I thought the art design of the various locations is really appealing and though the character actors are poor, they fit the genre very well. I remember when this game first came out, and the large amount of hype surrounding it. FMV was the cool new thing because of CD-Roms, and this game was the poster child for a higher budget attempt at a FMV "game." Like almost all FMV "games" from the 1990's, Phantasmagoria never really plays like a game. Sure, there are items to collect and places to use them, but the items are simply used to trigger FMV sequences and advance the story. If this is all you crave, then this story is for you. However, if you want a game in the traditional sense, keep looking. (There are no puzzles worth mentioning here, it's not that kind of trip.) Personally, I don't like this kind of title. I get bored playing FMV stuff because the dead time spent walking around ruins the narrative for me, and there are not enough puzzles and stuff to keep those "walking around times" interesting in Phantasmagoria. If I want to watch a creepy story, I'll rent a real horror movie, and if I want to play a game, I want a real game. For me, this hybrid (that is more story than game) completely fails. I wanted to stop playing almost always. The only thing that got me through this one was nostalgia. It gets three stars based just on the art design and the honesty in the character acting.

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