![]() I don’t say this in order to devalue the hard work of people who did so many things right. I mean it in the sense that he who smokes a cigarette impales his cheek with his knuckles, the cigarette temporarily disappearing into a parallel, Cthulhu-less universe. I don’t mean this in the way in which the residents of The Shadow Over Innsmouth walk in a way that resembles that of an amphibian soul locked within the clumsy infrastructure of the human body. That said, no one moves like an actual human. Eliot’s feline fog, the smells of all things dead and buried lick the walls and stretch themselves out to bask in the artificial light of a fluorescent asylum bulb that has confined itself to an existence spent flickering on and off, with light and darkness being equally terrifying. The hues of sickly shades of green create a damp and cold world in which the most repulsive stenches imaginable mingle with the air itself. It does earn some other badges, though, and it is by no means a bad game.Ĭall of Cthulhu‘s art design is fantastic. Bloodborne springs to mind as a game that masterfully played with the “-ian ” Call of Cthulhu doesn’t get that badge of honor, I’m afraid. While it’s fine to stay true to your source, many games in the past have done the exact same thing. ![]() Nods to Miskatonic University here and there lend themselves well to pleasing a fan of the source material, but overtly ostensible injections of Lovecraft into the heart of the game can sometimes spoil the momentum it manages to build by itself. While the game does contain a lot of “Lovecraft,” it doesn’t delve as deeply into the suffixed “-ian” to be truly innovative in a worthwhile sense. However, this game-like so many others-leans toward the wrong end of the adjective Lovecraftian. Call of Cthulhuis a game that does a lot of things right, but gets some other bits wrong here and there in fact, some of its horrors aren’t all that to do with genre. Lovecraft wrote some of the greatest weird fiction tales of all time, yet is perhaps used as a crutch a little too often in contemporary storytelling. Lovecraftian-the delightful adjective we have assigned to all that borders on cosmic horror.
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