Phantasmagoria

I had looked forward to playing Phantasmagoria for a long time. I remember when I first saw the game in the nineties. At a whopping seven discs, I thought this is going to be one long mystery/horror game. I hope it's a good one. Unfortunately, I didn't have a computer powerful enough to run it and by the time I did, technology had become too advanced to run the games. Thanks to GOG, I finally got the chance to to play this game. Regrettably the game was a mild disappointment which was unfortunate as the game started with an immense amount of potential. What started as a very interesting mystery tale devolved into a pointless slasher flick by the end of the game. The puzzles are minimal and rather simplistic. This was truly more a movie than a game as moving the plot along consisted of clicking on the necessary hot spots or just walking into a location. I would have been OK with that as the mystery slowly unfolded as you accomplished each task for the day. However, towards the end it is possible to complete one chapter without finding out anything about the back story of the mystery. I had to beat the game, then find out what I missed, and then go back and replay the chapter to get the whole story. The acting is fairly well done, but I found the violence to be quite over the top and brutal. The last few chapters felt like padding just to add something to the game, hence the excessive violence. Had a little more emphasis been placed on the story as opposed to the gore factor, this would have been a very good game. As it stands I give it a B-.

Classic game. Brilliant story-line, very creepy and will keep you coming back for more! The only negative side to this game is that it is very easy, I managed to complete it in the space of a weekend. Also there is a hint-master on it so it can potentially make the game even easier if you decide to use it. Don't let this put you off though because despite this it is a very enjoyable game and very re-playable.

Perfect

We need to play this again: its been 15 years....many of us only have MAC's now..

i used to play this game on my moms computer when it first came out when i was like...9 years old. i wanted to borrow it from her several years ago when i had windows XP and was disappointed to find that it wouldnt run on my operating system. ive looked for a long time to find it somewhere. i even tried to get an old computer with an old operating system just to be able to play this one game. but now ive finally found it where i can play on my computer. thank you gog.com for bringing me and my long time game friend back together again....although... in retrospect. i definately shouldnt have played this game so young. wow. but. im happy i can play it once again. -kate