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Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I found these games highly impressive and exciting. They were well written and created. I will never tire of playing these games they ultimately captivated me. If you are a person, who likes adventures and mysteries and If you like to snoop for things, then this is the game for you! Well worth the price!

Scary!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

These are some Roberta Williams Sierra games, and this lady knows how the scare the crap out of people. My favorite was the first phantasmagoria game of the two part series. This one takes place in this creepy old house that Adrienne (the character you play) and her husband just moved into. Well Adrienne kind of inadvertantly lets lose this evil demonic force while exploring the house and all heck breaks loose. The visuals of this game are excellent for a 1995 game, the game has lots of video segments and the characters look real (I actually prefer this kind of game play over the more modern 3-D stuff). The interface is good and the plot line is fabulous the story goes into the whole history of the house and even into the surrounding town. Some of the scenes are way disturbing though including flashback murders and a rape scene, but the most disturbing scene is the realistic final scenes at the end of the game that happen if you (Adrienne) lose and she is killed in various horrible ways, this happened to me quite a few times and that night I had to watch cartoons for hours before I would even think about turning off the lights to go to sleep. But this is a horror game and it does it's job it will give you goosebumps, make you scream, and freak you out. I really liked it, because it scared me. The second game Phantasmagoria II: A Puzzle of Flesh, is good but it's not the award winning game the first was. This one follows Curtis through a dark, bizare, and mind-bending tale. This game gave me the creeps, even more so then Phantasmagoria I did, but this game was for my taste too dark and surreal. In the first game it was easy to identify with Adrienne she was the heroine, but its hard to tell if Curtis is hero or villian or both. Curtis even though he is the character I played creeped me out, there is just something about him, and of course you'll find out what in the end, but it makes it hard to identify with him. The gameplay in this game also does the real life (television quality) visuals. Other pluses are the easy to use interface, interesting characters, and well laid plot. Worth the play but too creepy to be as fun as the first phantasmagoria in the set.

"Phantasmagoria" and "Phantasmagoria: Puzzle of Flesh"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

"Phantasmagoria" was the first CD-Rom game I ever played and it and I can still remember being stuck on a disc for a couple of days while the skull kept telling me to "Find Don! Give him what he needs!" I was pretty sure I had the drain cleaner Don needed, but I could not remember what room of the house he was in. "Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh" is not quite as good, but that is not a big knock against the sequel, although I have never bothered to find out while Roberta Williams, who designed and wrote the original, was not responsible for the "sequel."

"Phantasmagoria Stagefright" gives you both of these story-based adventure games, where you solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. I eagerly admit that these are my favorite type of comptuer games, where you collect not only information from the locals in town but various objects waiting for the right moment when a nail allows you to do something important. The games allow you to exclude access to explicit scenes, of which there are a few. I have not played a lot of these games, but the end game of "Phantasmagoria" is still my favorite, mainly because of the delicious twist Williams comes up with for how you have to put yourself in position to win the game (I can say no more).

I am sure technology has made quantum leaps in these games since this pair first came out, but they are still a pair of solid games.

Excelente mistery game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Phantasmagoria 1 is a very challenging game where you have to be smart,its images are really good.Phantasmagoria 2 story is not so good as the first one but it is also a very good game.the video in both of them is really impressive

The scariest game I have ever played...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game (Phantasmagoria) scared ... me the first time I played it. It is one of the richest games I have ever played, with elaborate, beautifully rendered settings, an intriguing story, horrific movie clips that play out in front of you like a horror movie, and an excellent score that will send chills down your spine. It is not so much a strategy game, but rather a slow adventure game (the "slow" being a positive quality, for you become immersed in the creepy atmosphere of it all). It has an awesome chase-scene ending that takes you all over the sprawling mansion and into the bowels of the mansion- you find your knowledge of the house which had served as your background on the past 6 discs being put to the test as you flee your attacker- perhaps one of the best- and scariest- game endings ever. If you are intrigued by all of the things I just mentioned, don't hesitate, BUY IT, YOU WILL LOVE IT. (This test refers to the out-of-print "Phantasmagoria".)

Phantasmagoria

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I don't understand why some people dislike Phantasmagoria 1, I mean it must be the best computer game i've ever played! I didn't like nr 2 as much as nr. 1, because the story behind nr. 1 is just... fanastic. I love the characters, the house, the story... everything! Roberta Williams did a really good job on Phantasmagoria, she should be proud.... Buy it, rent it, or borrow it today, you'll not regret it!

"Phantasmic"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought that both games were wonderfully done. The Master Williams struck a winning cord with me. The talent that she has shown through the ages was revealed again.

Phantasmagoria rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

don't listen to anyone that says otherwise: Phantasmagoria is the best! I've never played Phantasmagoria 2, but the first one is one of the best games ever. it has a great plot, awesome music, and graphics better than that of most newer games. If you ever find it for sale (it is out of print) BUY PHANTASMAGORIA!!!!

Phantasmagoria

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Loved it, Loved it, Loved it! I HATED TO SEE IT END! Of course I got myself killed in the end..... but I'll be ready next time. And we'll see what happens then. I hope I can find another game that I enjoy as much as this one. My son was right, BUY IT....

Phantasmagoria (the original)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game the first time we played it!!! I want to buy it and replay it but I don't know if it can be played on Windows XP? Does anyone know? Please email me at thetaylors@insightbb.com. I want to purchase it as a xmas gift(on amazon) for my husband. We set up all night and played it 10 years ago. I wish they still made games like that. Todays' games are too complicated to play. (IMO) All of Sierra games are good !!!!!!!!

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