ALONE IN THE DARK arguably has the the closest relation to PHANTASMAGORIA in the sense that you are not taking the role of an action hero but instead a normal person who finds themselves wrapped up in a horrible situation, like most horror films. Horror games existed ( CASTLEVANIA, SPLATTERHOUSE) and in 1992 you had what is considered to be the progenitor of the survival horror genre itself ALONE IN THE DARK. While this sounds fairly typical by today’s standards you have to consider that at this point there really wasn’t anything quite like PHANTASMAGORIA. Worst of all though is that the spirit of Carno has taken over Don’s body and is starting to become abusive and destructive towards anyone who seems to cross his path. What follows is a twisted journey from Adrienne’s perspective as she discovers not everything is what it seems in the old Carnovash place. The mansion they’ve taken residence in was previously owned by a 19 th century magican by name of Zoltan “Carno” Carnovash who had five wives, all of whom disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Adrienne finds herself having horrible nightmares involving gruesome torture. The story of the game centers around Adrienne Delaney (played by Victoria Morsell) who moves into a secluded mansion with her photographer husband Don (David Homb). The grim, foreboding atmosphere and depraved acts of violence were a far cry from the fantasy settings she was known for, but Williams had a serious knack for horror. The story was represented a change in the gaming industry, being developed by Roberta Williams who had already made a name for herself with the iconic KINGS QUEST series.
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The game is a point and click adventure with full motion cutscenes that move the story along. While it’s clear that FMV games require a strong amount of work the fact that Sierra brought in the likes of The Character Shop to do effects work should be a pretty clear indication that they were wanted this game to be a big deal. Besides being full of violence, gore and sexual content (even a controversial scene involving sexual abuse) the game was also also infamous due to having a very large budget. PHANTASMAGORIA came out in 1995 during the height of the popularity for full motion video games, games that used real people in front of three-dimensional, and made a pretty big scene upon it’s release. ( LARRY is sadly not part of this bundle.)Depending on what you donate you can get digital copies of several other games but for the basic one dollar donation you get quite a lot of puzzle solving games, including 1995’s horror puzzle-adventure PHANTASMAGORIA. This month’s Humble Bundle is focusing on Sierra, publishers of such favorites in the point and click game genre like KING’S QUEST, POLICE QUEST, SPACE QUEST and this writer’s personal favorite because while not a typical quest per say it was a forbidden part of childhood computer usage… LEISURE SUIT LARRY. You get great deals on products like games, comics and books, you get to donate to charities and you also get to help out indie developers.