American McGee's Alice [I] (PC) -

A dark Alice in Wonderland game, the main character gets an Ice wand. With it you are able to freeze your enemies. BUT!! There is one enemy in particular that freezes Alice in a transparent layer of ice in any pose she was taking, accompanied by the appropriate sounds. The camera spins 360 deg. around her to show off the effect. This is a great effect,it doesnt hurt her either so posing and setting up is easy. The game is quite nice as well.

Baldur's Gate [S] (PC) -

One of the female NPC you can get to join your party by turning her back from stone at a circus.

Beyond the Beyond [S] (PS) -

It was the first RPG that showed full-sized characters in battle and had full size petrifications; it also allowing you to shift cameras during battle for a somewhat 360 degree look-see. Problem was, try finding the creatures to do it... they were more intent on just blooding up the party. And the graphics weren't all that... kinda mid-range.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night [S] (PSX) -

This one's fer the ladies. If Alucard got bumped by the little floating medusa heads (and in one or two other instances) he would turn into a statue. He would then have to "shake it off" which made it look like he was breaking out. A very nice effect. There was also like a 1 in 40 chance that when petrified he would take the form of a giant gargoyle statue. In the import Saturn version (titled Dracula X) you can play as the game's female protagonist, Maria. Unfortunatly, it's a stripped-down version of the game, so she just takes damage with no statue effect.

Curse of Monkey Island [S] (PC) -

(Part III of the monkey island series by LucasArts) In this game, only a short way in, Guybrush (your main character) offers the beautiful Elaine an engagement ring that he finds while imprisoned on an undead pirate ship-- always where I first look, I know. The 'tragic' result? A trophy wife, or at least fiancee.

Darkstalkers 3 [S] (PSX) -

See Vampire Savior.

Darkstalkers: Jedah's Damnation [S] (SN) -

See Vampire Savior.

Diablo [S] (PC) -

Use a trainer to give yourself infinite manna, then go to Hell to petrify the hundreds of snow witches and stuff. Also, nothing beats petrifying succubi. My personal technique was to leave only one left alive, and then keep petrifying her in a variety of poses. Too bad you couldn't petrify rogues in multiplayer.

Diablo 2 [I] (PC, Mac) -

Most Ice spells turn your enemies blue and freeze them in place. Using this on the corrupt rogues is no big whoop, but in the game's expansion pack they bring back succubi as an enemy.

Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters [A][F] (A,PC) -

Atari arcade game circa 1989. Players must raid factories on the aforementioned planet destroying robots and rescuing hostages (typically of the scantily clad female variety). On later levels, the women are found frozen in tubes, and still later some of them have been converted into suicide-bombing fembots. This game has been emulated on the PC by MAME and can be found on the Internet if you look hard enough.

Final Fantasy Series [S] (SNES) (PS) (PS2) -

Final Fantasy 6 (FF2 US). Terra as a statue was pretty cute, and the other two girls were alright. FF4 (FF2 US) has cute girls, but the petrificatoin affect itself wasn't very good. FF7's petrification images flat-out sucked, which is a shame, because it had some lovely characters. I was pretty happy with FF8, though, because the girls were cute and you could use the Scan spell to rotate around them after you petrified them. Graphics from ehnh to OH, %^#@* YEAH!, depending on how recent, although there was only one character in 9 I thought was worth it. I have a soft spot for III, too, (Terra and Celeste) on the old Super NES, which was re-released with cut scenes on the FF Anthology CD for the Playstation. In FFX (Ten), the creature Anaconda can turn to stone characters of your team. Three are very lovely females. Problem is, they only get very few positions. To the contrary, FFX-2 (Ten-two) is a dream come true. First, in the middle of the game, you have a creature that can turn to stone the all female crew of three. In all the poses that you like. You also have a scan ability where you can see the characters from all different angles. Gun Mage ability can mimic some powers (including turn to stone). So, after that you can turn your own characters to stone. Earlier in the game (end of chapter 2 I think) you enconter a character that can paralyse your character. At the end of the game, you can buy at an oasis in the bikanel desert a ring that adds STOP (paralyse) to your attack. The thing is, the characters can attack each other. Each of the three female characters has 12 different possible outfits. Some are extremely sexy and the quality of the graphics is awesome and incredibly defined.

Freedom Force [I][F] (PC) -

Haven't gotten that far into the game yet personally, but the instruction manual lists freeze as "encased in a block of ice" and stasis as "paralyzed with a yellow aura". Can anyone confirm?

Half Life 2 [F] (PC) -

There's an explosion in the very end and your female sidekick in the game (named Alyx Vance) says "we gotta get out of here, there's no..." and the G-Man (if you played half life, you must know who's he) says "Time?, what's time? and the whole scene freezes, except for you, you can move in a very slow motion and contemplate the girl trying to cover up from the explosion... Unfortunately you can't move or interact with Alyx's frozen body and the scene is relatively short (about a minute) but I think it is really cool because this game has amazingly detailed characters.

ICO [S] (PS2) -

Follows the adventure of a cute young man with horns escaping a huge castle with a girl in tow. Both of them are portrayed as statues during the game. The boy will turn to stone anytime the princess is stolen. This can happen at almost any time. In the final scene he fights an evil queen and if he loses he is petrified. The "pretty cute" girl is turned into a statue at the end as well. You find her trapped as a statue in a kneeling pose. It is 3-d model so you can see all sides of her. As a bonus, if you hit her it makes stony sounds. Both iterations of petrification are done well but you must play through to get the best....Its worth it!

Jedi Knight 2 (& 3) [F] (PC) -

Type in helpusobi1 in the console, then d_npcfreeze 1. All the NPCs will stop moving and freeze in a casual position, aside from jedi with lightsabers who actually have poses. You can pose them a bit by talking to teammates and making them look at you, as they won't turn back, and make the jedi move their light sabers, but that's about it. Only 3 women characters in this game, sadly. That's where mods come in handy.

King of Fighters '94 [S] () -

The game's boss, Rugal Bernstein, likes to collect fighters he's defeated by bathing them in molten metal. (How he gets them to hold those fighting poses while he does it is anyone's guess.) Before you fight him there is a scene with him in front of his "trophies". The big joke is that his victims are all characters from rival fighting franchise Street Fighter (Ryu, Guile, FeiLong, Akuma, no Chun-li however...).

King's Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity [S] (PC) -

Decent 1st person type game that begins with the Mask of Eternity being shattered and your character (Connor, I believe. Don't quote me) finding one of the pieces, which allows him to be the only one in the intro scene to not be turned to stone. Could have been a lot better in a lot of respects, two most notably. First, the newly-created statues are a bit on the yigh-ish side. However, you can walk around them and 'interact' (read: Connor can say 'poor Ms. Darywimple. I'll find a way to free you.') with them. Second, if this is keeping with the whole King's Quest series, where is the tres decent princess from one game before?

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride [S] (PC) -

Allows you to-- if you go through the right steps-- get the princess' prim and proper mother turned to stone, but not the princess herself. In addition to being petrified she gets turned into a werebeast (were-jackalope) and in another instance, flattened. Meanwhile all her daughter gets is turned into a goblin!

Kirby's Super Star [S] (SNES) -

When using the stone power, Kirby randomly turns into a pink rock, a gold brick, a 10 ton weight, or a stone statue of himself. But if you're persistant, there's a small chance he'll turn into a statue of a muscle-bound human. What's more, if you do it on a slope, he'll be in a different pose. Oh, and if you're REALLY persistant, like trying the power 200 times in a row, he can also turn into a golden Mario statue, I know, like you care.

Legend of Dragoon [S] (PS) -

DO NOT GET THIS FOR PETRIFYING. YOU WILL BE SADLY DISAPPOINTED. The game itself is pretty good, but Sony skimped BAD on petrifications. Your character falls down and gets a 'stoned' ICON floating over their heads. HUGE waste, in such a good game, graphics and storywise.

Legend of Legaia [S] (PS) -

The graphics are a little drab (greyscale. yawn.) But you see close-ups of the characters when they get stoned.

Legend of Mana [S] (PS) -

Strangely Addictive action/rpg boasts a creature called the (???) Gorgon, which is really a floating eye. If you choose the right characters and right pathways, you can not only get her and her little assistant girl petrified temporarily, but get to see a whole gaggle of petrified penguins. I know I chomped at the bit for this one. Seriously, it is pretty decent, although you don't see the transformation. the beam rolls you across the screen and when you become upright, you're (well, she's) a statue. But the detail on the statue is nice, even if you can't close-up.

Lunar: The Silver Star [S] (PS) -

Although the characters are a drop back (super-deformed), the slow-petrify, where the characters struggle as they turn to stone in waves is a bit different.

Marionette Company [A] (PS) (PC) (DC) -

You get to have your very own robot girl to teach and upgrade!

Marvel Super Heroes [S] (A, SN, PSX) -

I'm referring to the fighting game by Capcom. If Shuma-Gorath used one of the infinity gems (I think it was TIME, but I may be wrong) his attacks would be able to petrify his opponent. (Shown as a pallette swap to shades of gray.) If done correctly, you could capture Psylocke in some very lovely poses.

Might and Magic 6 [S] () -

One of my favorites because of its "turn to stone" spell, but it was pointless to get your own characters petrified because you couldn't see them -- but zapping peasant women, bikini-clad druids, harpies, etc. etc. was fun. The peasants were the best. Nicking a peasant with an arrow caused everyone in town to try to kill you, but you could turn half a dozen of them into statues and the rest wouldn't bat an eye. The spell was removed from MM7 and MM8, which were almost identical in every other way.

Phelios [S] (SG) -

You played Apollo, who went off to save Artremis (an anime babe in the graphics scenes), who had been turned to stone by Medusa. Great premise, and they show Artremis in the opening. Well, yeah, except she's pretty well greyscaled, her eyes are closed, and against the grey stonework background you'll probably just think your TV went to black and white.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time [F] (PC) -

One of the powers you gain involves freezing an entire area in time for 30 seconds or so. I haven't tested it yet, but in theory this includes the woman with the bow that you team up with at certain points.

Rune [I][S] (PC) (PS2)? -

For the Man Statue lovers out there. In this Viking adventure there are two axes. One freezes you enemies, and the other turns them to stone. They will stay like that and you can smash them....I prefer to leave them as studly reminders of my escapades. The are stuck in whatever pose you strike them.

Saga Frontier [S] (PS) -

The same sort of graphics as early Final Fantasy, at least for the characters. The limited perspective didn't help seeing the turning to stone either.

Skies of Arcadia [S] (DC) -

The very first special attack lunar-girl Fina comes with is the ability to petrify opponents (I think I'm in love) of course, you can't aim it at her or Aika... Fortunately, there is a spot where you fight some guardian robots who's every attack petrifies when they hit. Petrification in this game meant the character got all their polygons painted in a granite-like texture. Unfortunately, you lost the ability to rotate the camera around such "inactive" party members, but if they were standing next to an active member you could grab a peek. Also, Aika eventually learns a technique which gives her an invinvible shield for one turn. This covers her totally in a metallic texture (think Metal Mario). Most importantly you can still rotate around her!

Soul Caliber [S] (DC) -

Well, here's a game that's pretty damn sexy even without it's ASFR content! Keep playing story mode and you'll unlock a metal fighter option, now you can hold one of the trigger buttons while selecting a character and they will have a solid metal body (again, just like Metal Mario). Their body will be either silver or gold depending on wether you are plugged in as player one or player two respectively. This even works in the character profile mode where you have total freedom to rotate and zoom in!

Super Adventure Island [S] (SNES)? -

Where your main character, a little cave guy with a big head (and baseball cap?) sits on a tree at the opening with his girlfriend, and then out of the blue comes a bad wizard type on a broom that casts a spell and turns the semi-pixelated vixen to stone, beginning the quest. Graphics were so-so.

Super Mario Bros. 3 [S] (NES) -

Mario turns into a statue for 3 seconds in level five. He would put on a raccoon suit and for three seconds he would turn to stone and not fall or be injured.

Terranigma [I] (SNES) {***}

In the begining of this RPG an entire Village is turned into ice statues. Even chickens do and when you try to talk to them the hero acts all scared.

Tomb Raider [S] () -

I know there is a Midas scene, but I don't know any specifics about it. Someone please give me a hand with the details.

Unreal Tournament (& 2003 & 2004) [F] (PC) -

After typing in the master code: iamtheone while in gameplay, you can type in playersonly and make it a player only level. The intresting thing is by players only they mean all the NPCs are frozen, as well as the bullets and any clock that may be running. It's very good compared to some other games with this code in it, but in some cases the bot can be stuck in a run motion and continue to run in place, continue to run in midair, etc. Still, a good code.

Vampire Savior [S] (A) -

Aside from all the sexual content already present in the character designs AND victory phrases, this game features something for almost every transformational fetishist out there! The one statue shot comes during one of Anakaris' Pharoah Magic EX Specials, where you can briefly catch a shot of the opponent turned into a statue (just a dark gray palette swap, but the pose was unusually well chosen). In addition to that, the game features Characters getting turned into animals (or small, cute versions of themselves), Characters getting inflated, Male characters getting turned into women, female characters getting turned into sexual charicatures of themselves, and one young girl getting turned into a sexy teenager - and those last three all come from the same attack! In Dimitri's ending, he finally gets his hands on the lovely Morrigan. To thwart his advances, Morrigan turns herself to stone. All you get is one shot of the aftermath though, a statue of Morrigan on her hands and knees.

Xena: Warrior Princess [S][I] (PS) -

If you can get past the fact that this is one of the worst-controlling games I've ever seen and that the voices are way off, it's dece. Bad thing is, the Gorgon area causes you to lose life, so you can't just watch and appreciate. Good thing is, the area just before that has a druid that can freeze you, showing you going from a slow to a stop and then an icy blue with almost no damage.