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How to use the phantasmagoria tomestones and red scrips you have left before Endwalker Instead, two new types of tomestones and one type of scrips will be introduced to the game to get gear from level 80 to 90the new level cap after the expansion’s release. Additionally, allegory and revelation tomestones, as well as yellow gatherers’ and crafters’ scrips, will be discontinued. Levels in phantasmagoria game Patch#Patch 6.0, which will introduce Endwalker, will delete phantasmagoria tomestones and red scrips from the game. If you're interested in LGBTQ gaming history and have the time, I highly recommend you tune in.Some new information on gear grinding in Endwalker was revealed by Square Enix earlier today, roughly one month before the expansion’s release in Final Fantasy XIV. Levels in phantasmagoria game series#This Pride Month stream is the latest in Stetler’s “Conversations with Curtis” interview series to commemorate and catalog the game’s production. And still, today, 25 years after release, the game continues to inspire and empower LGBTQ people through its renewed popularity and cult following.Ĭoincidentally, actors Paul Morgan Stetler and Paul Mitri-who played Curtis and Trevor, respectively-are doing a livestream tomorrow (Saturday, 6/26) at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern to celebrate the game’s LGBTQ legacy. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh might not have changed the world overnight, but its authentic LGBTQ storytelling absolutely helped move the needle for acceptance, at a time when it was desperately needed. GLAAD is proud to have played a role in driving that cultural change and won’t stop until we’ve achieved 100% acceptance for the LGBTQ community. LGBTQ acceptance has certainly come a long way since the '90s when hope was a lot harder to muster. If you’d rather learn more about A Puzzle of Flesh without playing it, then you’re in luck, as both the game and its contemporary social context have been extensively documented by VoidBurger in her excellent (dare I say definitive) video essay “A Puzzle of Flesh in an Era of Strife.”Īs a nice bonus, VoidBurger even shares a bit about GLAAD history, including our 5 th Annual GLAAD Media Awards and the “Come Out With Ellen” house parties organized by GLAAD. ![]() Levels in phantasmagoria game update#If you haven’t played it, I recommend picking it up on Steam or GOG (the GOG version seems to be higher quality, but be aware: I had to manually update the bundled version of ScummVM to avoid crashes). ![]() The campy and quintessentially 90s plot of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is complicated and messy, so I won’t attempt to dissect it here. While the game has its fair share of problematic elements, its LGBTQ representation is remarkably progressive for the period in which it was released. And his best friend, coworker, and love interest, Trevor Barnes, is an out-and-proud gay man. Curtis is canonically and identifiably bisexual in the game, making him arguably the first playable LGBTQ protagonist in gaming history (among commercial games, at least). The story of A Puzzle of Flesh is unconnected to that of the original game, instead following the tribulations of Seattle-based office worker Curtis Craig. This horror adventure from Sierra On-Line was released in 1996 as a follow-up to Roberta Williams’ phenomenally successful Phantasmagoria. Sorry, did I say “none”? I meant exactly one: the inexplicable outlier of a game Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. As for major studio games that have multiple prominent, canonical, authentic LGBTQ characters, you’ll find none. If you look hard enough, though, you can find some minor characters like Vivien Pentreath in Moonmist (1986) or the unnamed lesbian flapper in The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992). The lack of inclusion in pre-2000 era games is, unsurprisingly, a reflection of the level of social acceptance toward the LGBTQ community during that time. Before we had Ellie and Dina, Hammerlock and Wainwright, Snorpy and Chandlo, or any other outstanding 21 st-century queer characters, we had only the faintest glimpses of authentic LGBTQ representation in video games. ![]()
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