SIMILARITIES CASE STUDY 1:
PHANTASMAGORIA AND LAURA BOW 1

This list of similarities between these two games was created by Mako Thunderbird and JDHJANUS.

• Both games star female protagonists who search a large mansion on a relatively secluded island.
• Both games have a reclusive old man who uses a wheelchair.
• Both houses have several rooms that are uncommon to most normal houses, including a nursery (even though no children live in the house), a chapel, a crypt, a barn, a bar, a library, fountain, gazebo, and a tower bedroom.
• Both games have bathrooms (which are somewhat uncommon for a video game), and attics that cannot be accessed at the start of the game.
• Both games have a Bible in the chapel that has the resident's family line within.
• Both of the reclusive old men own a dog.
• Both houses are have secret passageways that allow you to snoop into the rooms that are connected to them.
• Both houses have elevators in them.
• Both games have a fireplace poker that is an inventory item.
• Both games have creepy portraits throughout the house of mysterious people.
• Both have fireplaces that never seem to go out in the game.
• They both have a character named Ethel.
• You can pry open tombs in both games.
• Both games have a religious item that you can find.
• There are ghosts in both.
• Both have characters that get drunk from a bottle of alcohol that decreases throughout the course of the games.
• You can use the toilet in both bathrooms, as well as various other normal bathroom things.
• Both have grandfather clocks that are the only sound in the room they inhabit.
• In both games you read newspaper articles of age old events that are directly related to the owner of the mansion.
• Despite the fact that the houses have changed homeowners several times, the furniture is very old and is hinted to be the original furniture that was put in the house.
• You read another person's diary in both games.
• Both games have characters that smoke.
• Both games have old gramophones and player pianos.