The Phantom Fellows

A delightful game. I was made aware of it through One Short Eye's video on it, My wife and I played it together as we do many games like this, we do the voice acting ourselves. It was genuinely laugh out loud funny and just a very fun experience. Some of the puzzles stumped us, but thankfully nothing too moon logicy. Really loved the relationship between Oliver and Englebert. Felt very sincere, even when they were being sarcastic. Really hope this gets a follow up. We want to see what happens next. Great job man. You clearly put your whole heart into this.

This is one good looking and incredibly funnily written adventure with two of my new favorite protagonists in gaming. Oozing with so much charm and passion for the genre it snuggly fits itself right into, that I have a hard time not recommending this to anyone who likes a fun and well-crafted narrative. The Phantom Fellows stands proudly next to some of the great classics we all reminisce about from time to time, at least in spirit, passion, and writing. Not to mention the absolute banger of a droning synthwave soundtrack. No need for an external walkthrough either, as many of the older games almost require nowadays. The Phantom Fellows feature a neat way to ask one of the protagonists for help, letting you inch closer to figuring out what to do next if you get stuck, instead of flat out spoiling the fun. This is such a delightful experience that deserves way more love than it currently gets. I also have to recommend the podcast The Classic Gamers Guild, on which two of the people behind this game, not only talks about adventure games in general, but also got a few episodes that chronicles the development in a way I find invaluable for any aspiring creatives. Pick it up, leave a review, give the podcast a listen, support cool creators any way possible <3

[h1]简介[/h1] 《The Phantom Fellows》是一款点击冒险游戏，在本作中玩家操作者一个奥利弗的侦探，但实际上还有一个可以切换的幽灵，因为两个角色的能力不同，在面对一些谜题的时候，需要在这两个角色中进行切换。 [h1]剧情与特色[/h1] 游戏的故事讲述了男主奥利弗经营着灵异事件处理的生意，当有人遭遇到灵异事件，就会委托男主帮忙处理。在面对灵异的事件，男主的幽灵搭档负责灵异事件的主角进行沟通，正常情况下，这些恶作剧的小鬼只要男主进行各种方式的帮忙，大多是的鬼都会配合离去。只有男主的鬼魂的搭档能听见灵异的话语，并由这个搭档转述给男主，所以游戏里充满了各式各样对话，而且如果卡关了，男主的搭档还会给出过关的提示，尝试操作不同的角色去点击触发不同的对话也是本作的玩点之一。 [h1]玩法和谜题[/h1] 游戏里还有一些设计精巧的谜题，配合查看、行走、拿取/使用、交谈等操作，手动搜寻可互动的区域、与所有人对话以及组合物品。可以使用键鼠操作，还有搭档的谜题提示，推进游戏还是很简单的。游戏流程挺充足，一些谜题还有多种解法，玩起来也颇为有趣，可见本作的谜题设计是非常的出彩。 [h1]总结[/h1] 总的来说，本作虽然是一个简单的点击解谜类游戏，但游戏的丰富程度超乎想象，双主角、海量的道具、多个可探索的场景或房间。当然缺点也很明显，没有语音，像素的画风使得游戏的画面显得粗犷异常。不过在游戏强大的剧情演绎下，本作还是以故事为特色的。喜欢奇特故事，精彩谜题的玩家有福了，本作在这两方面极具特色，推荐尝试。 [quote]欢迎关注我们的鉴赏家:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402982/]走心评测[/url] ←遵从内心，写出真实感受 欢迎加入我们Steam组:[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ZXPC]走心评测[/url]←点击加入，一起探索游戏的乐趣 喜欢这篇评论，也麻烦点个赞，让更多人能够看到！[/quote]

Really enjoyable adventure, the humour is great and now I'm really looking forward to the next one to see what's next for the characters.

One of the most effortlessly funny games I have ever played.

Pretty fun dialogue and puzzles.

Puh find das schwierig zu empfehlen oder nicht. Es wird ganz viel richtig gemacht, aber es ist schon nur was für Genre Fans. Grafik, Sound (keine Sprachausgabe) ales minimalistisch aber stimmig. Die einzelnen Kapitel finde ich auch nett, auch wenn die Rätsel schon manchmal etwas absurd sind. Ich fands auch gut, dass man hier und da mal zurück zu bereits besuchten Orten muss. Soweit so gut! Es gibt in Form von E. auch eine Art Hilfesystem was dazu führt, dass man wirklich recht selten hängen bleibt. Fand ich sehr gut! Der Humor ist so eine Sache. Die Dialoge sind teilweise echt witzig. Aber darauf wird manchmal so lange rumgeritten, dass es zäh wird... und es gibt eine menge Dialoge, so dass man echt aufpassen muss um das Sinnvolle nicht vorschnell wegzuklicken. Und dann ist da noch das Ende... oder nicht? Cliffhanger... die Story wird weitergehen. Das sollte man dann eigentlich auch so deutlich schreiben. Mal sehen ob bzw. wann da was passiert. Dafür hat der Teil aber eine gute Länge. Also: Wenn du sowieso alles aus dem Genre spielst: zugreifen. Ansonsten eventuell erstmal die Darkside Detectives spielen... da gibts einige Parallelen. Wenn dir die Spaß machen, dann machst du auch mit den Phantom Fellows nicht viel falsch.

The Phantom Fellows es como si la premisa de la serie Blackwell tuviera un hijo con el sentido del humor de The Darkside Detective. Justamente el humor diría que es el punto más alto del juego sobre todo en los primeros capítulos que es bastante fresco y varias veces me reí mucho. La parte point&click en si misma tiene altibajos: la interface es media incómoda por momentos, el tema de un icono especial para desplazarse no me terminó de convencer y encima hay veces que dejamos a un personaje tapando algo y tenemos que volver a cambiar el icono solo para moverlo y luego recién podemos hacer la acción que queríamos. Los puzzles varias veces no se entiende bien que necesitamos hacer o sí, pero hay que hacerlo en un orden dado. El día 5 se me hizo bastante confuso y estirado por demás, la mecánica de interrogación fue bastante extraña. El juego termina en un cliffhanger pero tampoco quedé desesperado por saber que pasa. Puntaje: 7/10

I really enjoyed the style, atmosphere and dialogue in this game. I love the way clues are often dropped in the dialogue and the way some puzzles have multiple solutions. It definitely has the feel of older adventure games, without being as frustrating. I also particularly liked the parts involving animals.

I really wanted to like this, since I love the Darkside Detective games. Phantom Fellows is not for my taste, though. I am not saying the game is terrible and encourage any reader to weigh positive and negative reviews before making the choice to buy this game. With that out of the way, this is my take: I found the text really annoying, like it is trying too hard to be funny. There are good jokes, but most of them are just forced and/or reeeeeeally long-winded. This could be tolerated, if not for the fact that in the middle of many of those overly elaborate, drawn-out dialogue there is, sometimes, information that is useful for solving the puzzles. So the player must pay close attention to all that nonsense to fish out the obscured information. Oh god. Comparatively, not every Darkside Detective joke makes me laugh either, but at least they are harmless one-liners.