The game is more heavy on puzzles and traditional adventure gameplay than its predecessor. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is not an actual sequel to the original Phantasmagoria, but rather a follow-up that has similar themes and visual concept. He tries to find the cause of his psychotic episodes and the mysterious murders that break out all around him, all the while discovering more and more about his past life and his father's fate.
Now, a year after having been released from the mental institution, Curtis is employed at WynTech Industries, whose manager, Paul Warner, has seemingly taken it upon himself to take care of Curtis. Curtis' father was later shot, leaving the poor little boy with serious behavioural disturbances, and eventually in therapy. Nearly nothing is known about the true nature of this experiment but something in it affected the sanity of Curtis' mother, eventually driving her to suicide. His father was involved in an illegal, top-secret experiment for a company called WynTech Industries. In therapy, Curtis confronts his gender identity issues, his mother forcing him to wear a dress, and his romantic feelings for his gay best friend.Curtis Craig is a thirty-year-old man whose distorted childhood is filled with horrors. If you are able to play an uncensored edition of the game, be prepared for a fair share of sexual content, which, at least at the time, was pretty taboo for the gaming industry:Ĭurtis has sex with both of his female coworkers, one of which is into S&M and invites Curtis to a S&M techno-nightclub. The Windows version of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh displays 16-bit videos, while the DOS-edition can show only 256-colors. They are also some additional cuts during the scenes. In the UK version, the videos of Bob's and Therese's deaths are based on the "low violence" game setting by default. It is impossible to meet Adrienne, however. The only connection between Phantasmagoria and this game is that at the beginning of Act 3, Curtis receives a letter about a book signing by Adrienne Delaney, the main character in Phantasmagoria. There is also a slight difference during another scene in Therese's cubicle.
The game shows the scene in which Curtis drinks water twice instead. In the German version, one video with Therese at the water tank is missing. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games. On March 31, 1998, Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. The Australian version of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh suffered the same fate as Duke Nukem 3D: The censorship feature is turned on permanently.
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