Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh

Having been curious about the Phantasmagoria series and too much of a wuss to try the first one given the infamous scene, I bought this game expecting something chilling but altogether playable and that is, on the whole, what I got. The first few hours are good with tension building well with Curtis' hallucinations but it all starts to go downhill quite quickly. The acting is terrible in many places and I'm afraid that the 90s fashions didn't help either as I spent sometime wondering exactly how old some of the actors were rather than listening to what they're saying. It also suffers from the typical 90s problem of assuming that no woman will ever play a computer game (strange considering that the first in the series had a female developer and female lead) and so I was perhaps less thrilled about the various opportunities to sleep with different women than many of the other people who bought this game! The final chapter is laughably awful and makes very little sense either in terms of plot or gameplay (did this game perhaps influence the developers of Farenheit)? However, if you want to play a silly point and click with bad acting, terrible 90s hair, and a schizophrenic plotline then it kept me interested for a good few days!

Amusingly terrible and surprisingly twisted and kinky. Not a game for kids - not really a game for anyone when I think about it - but it is worth a play through if you are feeling nostalgic for full motion video and ridiculously illogical puzzles (thank heaven for online walkthroughs). The only reason I can't rate it higher is the final act. It goes completely bizarre at the end and really tests your dedication as the game descends from cheesy and awful into "oh my god why I am wasting my time with this".

It's about 4 to 5 hours long, might need a little internet help to get things moving along in spots, but as an experience it's amazing. It's different and engaging. Watch Spoony's play through on Youtube and if you are hooked on Spoony by the end, you'll come running here to play the game and have lots of laughs.

this is actually a great game. but running this in a dos box is something i can handle myself. i own the original cd-version and could install it on my own. this gog edition has no benefits. it's not even the windows version with better graphics.

Started out pretty good until I got to the final part of the game. I got so annoyed that never finished it.