The legendary Phantom of the Opera has returned! As Inspector Raoul Montand, you are the only one who can pursue the Red Death into the past and prevent him from terrorizing the present. This point and click adventure originally released by MicroProse in 1993 features a fully voiced cast of characte...
The legendary Phantom of the Opera has returned! As Inspector Raoul Montand, you are the only one who can pursue the Red Death into the past and prevent him from terrorizing the present. This point and click adventure originally released by MicroProse in 1993 features a fully voiced cast of characters with fluid animations, a tense and thrilling story penned by James Bond novelist Raymond Benson, and an atmospheric soundtrack that sets the perfect mood for this new take on a classic story.
Witness the tragedy that befalls the audience inside the famed Paris Opera House
Search for clues along the catwalks, through the wings, and into the many backstage rooms of the opera house
Step back in time as you explore the opera's labyrinth of catacombs
Awesome much unappreciated adventure from another time. I enjoyed it a lot. I also liked the old style pixelated graphics. Brings back memories. However the movement speed of the character is a tid bit too slow and I hate waiting for the guy to slumber hes way, thus only 4 stars.
If you boiled this down to the actual game, it would be about 15 to 20 minutes long probably. No puzzles really so it's a stretch to even call it an adventure game, but a somewhat interesting story and quite high production values for when it was made might make it worthwhile spending the 20 minutes if you got the game for free like me. But obviously you couldn't sell a 20 minute long game for the inflation adjusted price of something like $300 in 1993 money. So they padded this minimal experience out by first, forcing you repeatedly to walk back and forth and back and forth -- very slowly -- across the same few screens (including up three very long flights of steps making up otherwise empty screens), mostly to talk to a couple characters who are separated as far as possible within the game world. Then towards the end they added in one of the most obnoxiously stupid and unfair mazes in gaming history. Walking back and forth slowly and the maze make up at least 90% of the playtime, and even with that padding it's only a few hours long. There is just very little substance here at all.
Slow game, almost no puzzles, can get stuck for not seeing a random item in a random room, the labyrinth is impossible without a guide. Nice to revisit the original story as a game, but the "non canonic" parts are bland. The ambientation is cool, tho. Nostalgia played me dirty this time.
I just beat(?) this game and even though I got it for free, I feel like I got ripped off.
I wrote a much large review but it won't let me post this.
The good - Premise, atomosphere
The ok - Voice acting
The bad - Pretty much everything else
The Terrible - The puzzles, the don't exist or they are just to pad the game and waste time.
Google Point and click games. You'll find a better one. Watch Phantom, you'll enjoy it more.
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