The French gothic horror novel "The Phantom of the Opera" (1910) revisits modern audience as "MazM: The Phantom of the Opera", the adventure game for the Nintendo Switch! Decades after the "Phantom of the Opera" case that shook the Parisian opera house, a detective visits the place to uncover the truth about the Phantom. Find out what secret is hidden in the opera house by collecting footnotes and investigating characters! "He" is everywhere. "He" can see everything. And "he" is watching you…. Witness the shocking event about burning love and hate. Dive deep into the unique aesthetics depicting Belle Époque Paris of the late 19th Century and its people! Listen to the classical-style music that adds immersion to the lore! Enter the opera house, and see the mysterious and uncanny love story of the original novel turned more colorful and mesmerizing by MazM: The Phantom of the Opera!
he presentation does a marvelous job at transporting the players to the novel's settings, and at certain moments the game can feel more like a visual novel rather than a puzzle-adventure game. Some of the elements could use an improvement when it comes to adapting the game to a home console format, though, and sometimes the gameplay interruptions become...
The combination of an atmospheric musical score, eye-pleasing graphics, remaining true to the original novel and adding well timed humour and melodrama, makes MazM: The Phantom of the Opera a captivating puzzle adventure on Nintendo Switch. The ability to play it in handheld mode or on the TV makes it even easier to continue playing the at times nail-bitingly...
In MazM: The Phantom of the Opera, you get to experience being one of the casts of the original literature and the ever popular stage performance of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. The game is full of rich ‘musical’ contents to keep you entertained while progressing through the storyline. While there are numerous historical experiences to go through, some...
My initial impressions were very good. MazM: The Phantom of the Opera has cute sprites, a good atmosphere and art, and is downright creepy at parts. However, I cannot render any sort of final verdict (or much of a review) as I was unable to get far in the story.
I will update this should I hear back from the developer. I hope I do because I was very...
MazM: The Phantom of the Opera is what I would like to see more of in video games; it's a genuine effort to engage with a more meaningful side of art. It's less pop culture, easy content as it is an adaptation of a masterpiece of the gothic literature genre. The developer succeeded in capturing the aesthetics and generally representing the story, but...
