Loved Lands of Lore when I bought it years ago and never managed to complete it (pre-internet hints and tips). I can now proudly say that I have defeated Scotia and am the Hero of Gladstone! Really good dungeon-crawler with imagination, great music, impression-worthy characters (Hello, I'm Baccata!). Great fun. LOL2 - hate the movement, hate the graphics, can't get into it at all. Sure I will attempt it at some point but it's a disappointment after the first game. They should have just stuck with the cartoon graphics and same movement system, made the inventory easier to sort, and just left it at that. Sure it could be a good game but I just can't be bothered!
Bought this as I was mourning the loss of Severance (has yet to appear on GOG) and enjoyed myself more than I expected. I liked the fact that I had unlockable characters throughout and was able to purchase gear to upgrade them. I have to confess that I tended to either use the Barbarian or the Ranger but I had fun trying out all the rest. I also very much enjoyed having the opportunity to be on the side of darkness although the levels weren't half as well thought out. All in all a great bit of fun for the price. Would recommend.
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!
A game which starts out with a fantastic atmosphere, really creepy. I found the dreamlike nature of it really added to the chill of it. There is, unfortunately, an unintentionally ridiculous/hilarious ending which provides an anticlimax to an otherwise good game. As with all point and click there are a couple of puzzles which now seem ridiculous (e.g. having to phone a certain number of times to move the story on; having to click in exactly the right spot), but on the whole it was a great use of a couple of days.
