![]() ![]() Having just played the inferior sequel, "A Puzzle of Flesh", I am obliged to make a comparison. The rape scene, probably the game's most controversial moment, is still ugly, though a little improbable: both the parties involved are clothed at the time, leaving you wondering how sex, consensual or otherwise, could have occurred. When the game lets go of humour, there are some cringe-inducingly violent scenes: another woman has her head twisted around in a machine until it breaks, and if you linger too long on one screen, your protagonist will have her head torn apart. The game's macabre sense of humour helps to counterbalance that, however: when an apparently alcoholic woman has a wine bottle rammed through her eye socket and an overweight one is force fed apparently until she dies, you can see it's SUPPOSED to be ridiculous. Many of its scenes of violence just seem silly now. "Phantasmagoria" is an infamous point-and-click adventure game that was supposedly banned in Australia, though I remember seeing it for sale in at least one retailer.
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