Posted on: March 27, 2024
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Fear the stairs
Return of the Phantom is a Microprose point and click adventure released in 1993 - for context, this is the same year as Day of the Tentacle, Gabriel Knight and Space Quest V. Return of the Phantom is nowhere near as good as any of those games, but an interesting curio for any adventure game connoisseurs. Firstly, the bad: it's short, the puzzles pose almost no challenge (except for a truly miserable maze sequence later on in the game), and there's quite a limited range of locations to explore - the majority of them devoid of meaningful interactivity. Possibly the game's greatest flaw is the movement speed of the character, combined with the amount of dead space you have to traverse. This sounds like a nitpick, but as the main way you progress the story is by shuttling between different locations it can feel truly torturous. For example: to access the dressing rooms, you have to ascend 3 flights of stairs, watching your character waddle with comical slowness up each one. You will grow to fear these stairs more than any phantom. So what's good about it? It looks nice, with atmospheric painted backdrops and smooth rotoscoped animations. Although ROTP doesn't add much new, The Phantom of the Opera is fundamentally a good story. The music is nice. You get to meet Degas. It doesn't outstay its welcome. I had some issues with stuttering gameplay and sound, I'm sure that's fixable but it didn't bother me enough to try.
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