The epic conclusion to this Puzzle of Flesh is an orgy of slime, lightning, mucus, and alien weirdness in Dimension X. Who survives? Who dies? Will Curtis prevail, or will Paul Warner’s new weight loss drug usher in a new golden age of pharmaceuticals?
More importantly, will Spoony survive with his sanity intact?
All signs point to “no.”
EDIT: As a convenience to everyone who’s been following the review in bits and pieces up to now, here’s a link to the “Part 27″ finale, instead of having to slog through half of Hour 5 to get to the new content.
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I love all of these videos, and all of my friends will randomly yell PHANTASMAGORIA! And it’s all because of aren’t you proud, but anyway thanx for the awesome videos keep it up man.
You somehow made the best LP I’ve ever seen by playing the worst game that I’ve actually watched be LPed
…your version of this game was actually 1000x scarier than the corny-badly acted attempts at horror the game pulled out of it’s ass.
I loved your Ghostbuster references and the ending was the shit!
First of all, I love this site and I have been making my way through it since I found it. I have watched every single game rant/review that you have posted. This includes the 5 hour Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of the Flesh. I loved it a lot, but may I submit one suggestion: you should have some sort of badge of honor in the form of a picture that states something to the effect of “I watched all 5 hours of Phantasmagoria 2…..Bow down to me!!” This is merely an example of what it could say. If you think this is a good idea Spoony, email me back and I will be happy to design the picture for you, since I know you are a very busy man.
Wow. Just wow.
I sat through this marathon of an LP in all of about 7 hours. (Yeah, I took a few breaks) MOST. EPIC. LP. EVAR. Seriously. I wish destroying objects with a hammer was this entertaining, (And I do enjoy destroying shit.)
The ending…just pure GENIUS. So much genius, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if Dr. Insano was involved.
The game should have been called: Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Why There Weren’t Very Many Puzzles. You’re right, the only puzzles were the star gate thing and the circle puzzle to the masochist’s wet dream door. And possibly the one where you actually had to RIGHT-CLICK. WTF. How did this get past testing?
“Oh right, this game wasn’t tested.”
The fact that you referenced Office Space at least 4 times in the game kicks 10 shades of ass all by itself.
I had heard legends of your awesomeness on YouTube and discovered you just two days ago with your FF8 review. Had no idea this genius of an LP existed.
Keep up the work.
Loved the Nine Inch Nails reference.
Great stuff.
Hilarious review, man!
I love that “Emo powers fading” part! I laugh so hard every time I think about it!
“Emo powers… fading… Crawling in… my skin…” ROFL It must be because we seem to view the band in a very similar manner.
I’M GOING TO FUCK YOU IN THE NECK.
LOLOL
LOLOL
Too bad trevor died the actor that played him in my opinion was the best one in this game
oh and a Fun Fact: the guy that played paul Warner won an emmy in Outstanding Supporting Actor I was shocked when i heard this too!
lol “phoned of her” *slap “boned her behind desk” *slap…gold
The days of salad and glory are over! Truly these are the end of times! Repent! Repent!
EPIC ending btw
I was watching this on you tube originally and have found it to be freakin awesome! I was going to play the game again as i have not played it in over 10 years and dont really remember much but i found this to be so much better than playing the game. Freakin awesome, definatly a spoon fan here. Keep up the work!
Due to you tube dropping clips off i have not been able to watch episode 20, 23, and 24. Unfortunatly when i tried to watch the full hour long videos on the web page i found that where video 4 ends and video 5 starts there is a huge gap. I dont know if this is a glitch with my system or not but ill try and watch video 4 again (with my slow internet connection). My ultimate solve to this would be…..
Whats the chances of being able to buy this review (and others) on DVD??
I was ill for a couple of days so i decided to watch every second of the 5 hours I dont regret a second a laugh a minute and I will never get sick of ‘I heard that curtis!’.
Oh man, a dvd of all this would be awesome.
Hahaha, how the hell could endure this game for 5 hours? Well, that commentary kicked ass, Spoony, hope you’ll do more of it in the future. I liked it how you impersonated Curtis as a geek and his boss as an idiotic brit: “I heard that Curtis!” Lol, never got old…
Oh… yeah… and the ‘german’ Theresa (or whatever her name was) Awesome!
Funny Space odyssey 2001 reference, great job! :)
I agree, I’d definitely consider buying this review if possible (although I’m sure it can’t be done due to copywrites, though Roberta Williams seems pretty cool about that stuff nowadays).
Thanks for the most epic LP ever. Laughed my balls off the entire trip.
And using Clue clips/soundbytes to finish it made my day.
Epic review by a epic reviewer ;)
just wondering though who keeps slapping him? LOL at the end i dont think its him
Great job, Noah!
I just watched the entire Review in one sitting and I loved every minute of it!
There were so many references that I literally couldn’t stop laughing… but it made me realize, what a huge nerd I am… Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering, WoW, Seinfeld etc etc… oh man!
Well anyway… Keep up the good work!
PHANTASMAGORIA: WILL IT BLEND??
because of you i will name my first girl….. blob thank you spoony you have changed another small life. good job! keep it up.
were you looking in my desk?
OMG!!! It’s so cool – the Fallout 2 reference with the ghoul Herald and the tree growing outta his head named Bob=))))
PS: I’ve tried to comment on that a few days ago, but it didn’t work. All I wanna say, that the walkthrough with the awesome commentary are so cool, so I’m watching it the second time!!! keep the great work
Has anyone noticed that at 21:54 you can see Paul Warner in the background before he walks out?
You simply own man you actually managed to make the five hours entertaining. I feel like i’ve watched a terrible movie that was stretched too far…
Man when the detective interrogated him for the final time i would have been like Bitch if i was a murderer you’d be dead already! XD
Pwnsome review man i actually watched it through all five hours twice.. It’s that good of a review.
*sigh* Did Team Ninja produce Benzaie’s “contribution” to the video? Can’t they resist the urge to put jiggle physics into everything?
Aside from Part I, I watched all of this in a marathon. Damn, man! You are tied with only one man in the world of Let’s Plays and riffs! I SO hope to see more! Maybe, if it would not be much of a nuisance, you can also show off “Under a Killing Moon” after Ripper. Though…the constant swapping between 8 discs might be a little much…
Also, I have heard a lot about your Final Fantasy VIII review…I haven’t played the game yet, but I have hopes it is good. Of course, with SEVERAL Final Fantasy titles, it ALL depends on the person. Some hate VII, some hate X, some hate XII, some hate V…it’s just all over the place. Heck, I’m sure someone out there hates IX. But, no matter what my personal view on FF8 be, I’m sure your 11-part review will be quite entertaining.
I’ll be back to marathon that after I’ve played and beaten the game myself, as I am sure spoilers await.
Have I also mentioned you need to do MORE of these? Oh, my god, this was HILARIOUS! Five stars, A+, 100%, 10 out of 10! I would be as humble as a homeless man if I could have even a fraction of the talent you have with this stuff!
Mr. Rubino: Ha! Nice one! And you think THAT’S bad, wait till Metroid: Other M comes out! AAAAAAAHHH!!!!
(Okay, so apparently my comment is too long for a single post. It’d help to know what the character limit is …)
@Fuery87: Thanks for the recap. I got the gist of the backstory, but I was also confused about the details. (I’m still not sure how it was killing those people.)
I should probably warn anyone who hasn’t seen the vid yet that this comment contains spoilers.
Y’know, I really appreciate it when redshirts survive, especially in a horror game/book/movie. But are you telling me that out of all the ones who could’ve survived, it was the shallow female love interest, Miss Sure-We-Can-Have-an-Open-Relationship-Until-I-Find-Out-You’ve-Been-Sleeping-With-Someone-Else? (That scene of her getting jealous when she finds Therese’s markings on Curtis’ chest was painfully cliché.) I mean, I didn’t particularly care much for Therese, but at least she had a distinct personality.
*sniff* Farewell, Trevor. You truly were a good character in your own right, which is more than anyone else in this game can say for themselves. (You also kinda remind me of one of my best friends, and your interactions with Curtis kind of remind me of our relationship—dammit, there’s just no way to say that without including a shit-ton of unwarranted innuendo.)
How ridiculous was that ending though? You have the big confrontation with Paul Warner (“I heard that Curtis”) and the Hetacomb in Room 314, then Curtis wandering aimlessly in Alien Intestine Space, then a second confrontation with the Hetacomb and Other-Curtis, then more wandering aimlessly in Intestine Space for a while. Where was the effing climax?
Despite the wretched execution, this game actually had a promising plot to begin with. I was genuinely curious to find out what was going on and how it would all turn out. Unfortunately, as with many mysteries, the answers it gave were not nearly as exciting as the questions it raised.
And those ending choices were so incredibly cliché. Either Curtis goes back to Intestine Space or he stays on Earth with his one-dimensional girlfriend and all is well—except that Curtis is still experiencing EvilPangs, dun dun dun dun. Maybe it’s not over yet, after all. Puh-leeze, I’m not even slightly a horror genre buff and even I have seen that like a million times before.
That police investigation subplot also went nowhere. Chekhov’s gun must’ve been packing a blank with that one.
I know it was sappy and incredibly stupid, but I found the scene where Young Curtis makes up with deranged mommy kinda sweet.
(All right, it isn’t the length that’s the problem, it’s something I wrote in this section of the post. Again, it’d be helpful to have some idea what that is.)
I feel a number of the jokes were rather weak, an found many of your references incomprehensible, on top of the risible epilogues and numerous anti-climaxes.
… All of which pales into invisibility in light of the awesomeness of this review. When you’re at your best, Noah (in other words: most of the time), you leave me gasping for breath.
With one or two exceptions, your voices are fantastic, and just when I think you’ve exhausted your supply of new ones, you break out the Scotty imitation. (I hope you do that voice in other reviews, I haven’t heard nearly enough of it yet.)
The parody at the end with you in the t-shirt and glasses, imitating the waiting-for-the-player-to-click screen and the punched-by-the-computer effect and the phone calls and everything … comic gold.
And you used my very favorite line (just the way you deliver it is so hilariously funny) at the very end of the review. I was afraid we’d seen the end of that joke. True, it wasn’t as funny lacking the proper set-up, but it was still the best way to cap the whole thing off.
“I heard that Curtis.”
You thought the Star Wars prequels were bad?
You could probably almost finish all three in the time it takes to finish this game.
Nice spoof at the end, I would totally pay top dollar for a game like that starring the SpoonyOne. Oh yeah, and thanks for that awesome imagery of Benzaie dancing around in his underwear, I’m sure that won’t haunt my nightmares forever…
You are probably the best one at making Let’s Play videos out there.
there is something wrong with the video its stoping half way thru
Dude,
I absolutely loved every 5 hours of it.. I played this game when I was 12 years old.. And my dad got a hold of the cd’s and wouldn’t let me play it anymore.. till I found the cd’s again.. but anywayz..
In my memory this was a very crewl and violent game.. Man, was I wrong..
You where absolutely right in every, funny as hell, comment you made to the game.. probs man..
Regards,
Marcel
The Netherlands
So Trevor is really gay
I thought it was your joke all along xD
that should be kojima’s new game
METAL GEAR TREVOR
homosexual espionage action
and mabye curtis could defeat that weird thing, but is he any match for the ultimate emo that is named squall?
THIS GAME IS AMAZING, at the beggining it have such a nostalgic/depressive feeling, It makes you feel like experiencing the real life of a ordinary normal guy, I can’t be sure wheres the great magic of the game, but can asume that the depressive music really helps you feel in the character. I have watched the entire review in 4 days, and I have dreamed of it in the first 3 days, and I can say, that was like disturbing nightmares. At this point I can say that this game is a really DEEP EXPERIENCE. Its like watching a very long movie, and the end, ok that really sucks. I would say that the reach it climax at the mother fucker “Bob” death, afther that the magic fade out. I really enjoyed this review, probably your best game review done. Congratulations.
I watched your Knightmare vid on Youtube and loved it (Even watched it a second time a week later), then found this on Youtube and … like several, indeed lots of, people replying here, I watched the entire thing over the course of two evenings – and it was absolutely fucking hilarious. Thank so you much for the laughs and the amazing effort you put into it. The absurd references, your reactions, your gay Trevor voice… everything.
Anyway, I’ve always been a wuss with horror stuff like in Phantasmagoria, I’d never have lasted long playing it as a kid (I think it’s the tension – which the music did a good job of in this game until the volume slider became possessed), but it’s been a hell of an experience to see it play out – I can’t believe how lame the gore and scary stuff in it actually is. The whole game was classic Sierra puzzles and dialog put into an actual (interactive) movie, with hilarious results. This is yet another fucked up adventure game I’ve seen which always turns crazy – check out the Darkseed and Cthulu game play throughs at the Let’s Play site: http://www.letsplayarchive.com/
Darkseed 2 also has an amazing scene, “Here Mike. This will explain everything.”
Also, I’m sure I’ve seen Monique Parent (Joaclyn) before. … at first I thought she was Orgasmo’s girlfriend … a google search revealed the truth: http://www.webalice.it/pablone78/videos70.htm (NSFW!!!). Oh well, close enough.
On that (blonde) bombshell, thanks again.
Looking back, I can appreciate that you credit the people who worked so hard to unintentionally make us laugh at the end. Truly our enjoyment came mostly from watching them try to do drama.
CLUE! FUCK YEAH!
*ahem*
In commemeration of the awesomeness of this LP, I have put together a little Top 5 list. So, without further ado, Top 5 Likable characters in Phantasmagoria 2 – A Puzzle Of Flesh. Why 5? 5 WAS HARD ENOUGH.
#5. Patricia – Bumped up from Honorable Mention because a character who’s never shown on screen definately deserves a spot on this list. Even though having to hear her over the phone puts her in the game and knocks some points off, the fact that you don’t have to watch her act is enough to push her up on the likability scale.
#4. Tom – If you’ve ever worked under more than one supervisor, you’ve met Tom. He’s the supervisor who is business forward, but flips of your manager behind his back alongside you. And who wouldn’t find that at least a little likable? But, isn’t almost laughable adherance to company policy annoying? Yeah, a little. But when you remember he’s just another working stiff like the rest of us, you can’t begrudge him the number 4 spot. Unless he really was writing Tifa Porn. If so, he’s #5 and Patricia’s #4.
#3. Borderline Staff and Patrons – This can only work if you take them as a whole. From the man who pierced Curtis’ navel, to the woman who informed him Therese was going to destroy him, to Kevin Smith keeping guard at the unbelievably lame puzzle door, this motley crew attempted to release us from the monotony of Curtis’ hum-drum life, even if only momentarily. Any group of characters who step up and actually try to entertain us, deserve a spot on the list. And that spot is #3.
#2. Marianne Craig (Curtis’ Mom) – Once you found out what Curtis was, and realized she wasn’t evil and that he really is a disgusting monster who drove her to insanity, how could you not find the many ways she tried to torment and harm him funny and delightful? Hell, even before that realization, some of you probably wanted her to come back and beat him some more. The one who deserves the number 2 spot is definately her, the true victim in all of this. Well, aside from…
#1. Trevor – Come on, like you didn’t expect this! It’s Gay Spoony! In addition, he’s probably the only character whose death may have saddened you. His anti-humor was intentional and he was the only love interest who had true human depth and the only one you really wanted to see win in the end (no pun intended I swear!). So, even if he didn’t in the game, he certainly wins here. Besides, it’s refreshing to see a gay character who isn’t holding his wrist out and calling people ‘girlfriend’.
(Yeah, double-post. Sue me.)
Oh, and absolutely fantastic work. I mean it. I loved every second of this. You, sir, are a genius. I cannot convey enough how truly awestruck I am at the mere thought of how much effort and time you put into this. It really shows, as your end product is one of the most entertaining things I’ve seen in awhile. I’m glad you chose to share your personality with us all. Thank you!
Man the game was evil. Not only did it really, really suck. It made you finish playing another really, really bad game.
So, in the end, Curtis is not a human being and is actually a shapeshifting clone whose amnesia is simply a result of his not being the actual Curtis?
Holy shit. He’s Alex Mercer!!!
I loooove that the actress playing Jocilyn probably has the most lasting success of the entire cast, working in softcore porn (seriously, check out her credits on IMDB.) I guess after this POS she had nowhere to go but up (and down, and up, and…slap…my apologies…)
Nine Inch Nails and 2001: A Space Odyssey, you can’t go wrong on that one!
Speaking of NIN, I remembered about the Year Zero ARG and thought “Reviewing an ARG would be something kinda interessting…”
just a thought ^^
Greetings from the far away exotic country that is Portugal!
Clue is the best movie ever… and then some
Man that was too awesome! This game… it’s a guilty pleasure, it’s so bad!
5 stars for the Clue ending!
i like all ur videos but when u play phantasmagoria the world suddenly stops. u are so damn funny. just like chris said me and my friends are screaming PHANTASMAGORIA a puzzle of the flesh @ random times haha. thank u for 5 hours of laugh and love :) TREVOR IS MY FAVOURITE lol
btw…
I would love to see transformers with u dude :D
Great job, Spoony. This game looks thoroughly unfun to play. Kudos on making this entertaining. The ending was genius! Its almost frightening how well it copies the game perfectly. Was the first game any better than this? If so, would you do a Let’s Play of Phantasmagoria 1?
208 it a Linkin Park “Crawling” refrence not NiN. Oh, and you know that can’t smell good.
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