Leather Goddeses of Phobos

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

In this interactive fiction it gives a different kind of feel than the traditional ones, or at least the ones that we have looked at so far. In this piece you are in space, so already a little different. It also allows you to pick your gender which is innovative for the time. However this game is far different than any other game that had ever been released, this game had a setting where you chose how .. well lets say vulgar the text was. Or how sexy it got, if you wanted a more "interactive" experience you could choose the setting Lewd, in which case the game would accept more vulgar words and would give you more vulgar choices. It was supposed to be a more sexy version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, according to the creator of the piece. It begins with the player having been abducted by the Leather Goddesses for the final testing of the plan which will enslave all of humanity. Unless this nefarious plan is stopped, the Earth will be turned into these twisted vixens' pleasure dome. Despite the player's possible motives, this outcome is considered to be the bad outcome. The game allows you to explore both the physical world and your sex fantasies.... I mean your inner desires... well I guess there isn't a great way to say it, but it is a sex farce game. With adventure and comedy. My experience playing the game was well interesting to say the least, I was a bit lost on where I was supposed to go until i found Trent, then I realized what I was supposed to do.The game definitely had interesting things going on with later parts of it. I found it interesting what all comands you could give rather than just the regular comands like kill the game understood a whole assortment of comands, such as kiss and hug, and more "lewd" words Id rather not say. It was one of Info cons best selling games and and gave people a different look on what Interactive Fictions could become, you know if you're into that sort of Lewd Acts. Overall the game I thought was a interesting turn that these games took, it allowed the user more customizing because it allowed you to choose your gender and it allowed the user to make good or bad choices like let the earth become sex slaves or not. For this i believe the game was a strong turning point into what video games today are like because even now they are filled with all sorts of things that Phobos displayed even the sexy bits.

Adam Feather