Sierra Saturday: Let's Play Phantasmagoria - Ep.17 - Business Familiars
It's Sierra Saturday! It's Horror Month! Let's play Phantasmagoria! Winner of the 2022 Horror Month game poll, in this series we enter the live-action rotoscoped horror world of the first game in the Phantasmagoria series and help protagonist heroine Adrienne Delaney uncover the dark secrets of the Carnovasch mansion.
In this episode:
Middle-aged men as mascots
Watch More Sierra Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLacwSBKCWdF9-htFaruUyoAH1pEP812W9
Watch ThursDev: Pointing & Clicking - The rise & fall & rise of the Adventure Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGOp0p4ch4
Phantasmagoria was released on August 24, 1995, and was a landmark game for its use of high-fidelity rotoscoping in its marriage of live action characters and CG environments. A horror experience eight-years in the making, written by visionary game developer and co-founder of Sierra On-Line, Roberta Williams in a return to her horror-mystery roots from the early days creating Mystery House.
It tells the story of novelist Adrienne Delaney, played by Victoria Morsell, and her photographer husband Don Gordon, played by David Homb, having freshly moved into a mysterious old, abandoned mansion in New England, formerly owned by purported "magician", Zoltan Carnovasch, played by Robert Miano. As Adrienne explores her new home, looking for inspiration for her next novel, she gets more than she bargained for, as she is beset by nightmares, and slowly uncovers the dark secrets behind the deaths of the old magician's five wives...
The NPCs are playing the GOG version of Phantasmagoria using ScummVM
Sierra Saturday is a weekly series on the Level 0 NPCs channel, where Matt & Luke relive their childhoods playing classic adventure games of the '80s and '90s (and beyond?). Sierra adventure games were a special breed of dark humor, brutally unfair puzzles and unforgettable characters, and we hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane with us.
Buy Phantasmagoria on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/phantasmagoria
Buy Phantasmagoria on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/501990/Phantasmagoria/
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00:00 Intro
00:17 Cereal Business Familiars
08:40 Stop trying to make Chef Wendell a thing
12:05 Business Familiar deep lore
16:33 Re-casting the MDCU
18:19 Welcome back to Phantasmagoria
25:10 D-Box
30:14 Exposition dump recap
41:24 Farewell, sweet Mike
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