Posted on: July 9, 2018
groze
Games: 1454 Reviews: 39
good game
This is a good game. I didn't have any control issues, it runs fine, the puzzles are OK. It's an OK game, overall, maybe A BIT better than just OK, except I'm taking it down one star, out of the four I think it deserved, because the market is getting extremely saturated by "lovecraftian" games. Lovecraftian has stopped being a niche genre ever since the late 90s, early 2000s. Don't get me wrong, I love me some lovecraftian horror, every once in a while, but when EVERYTHING has to be lovecraftian, I start to get annoyed. Apparently, it's the only thing that sells horror games, these days. "Hey, buy our horror game, it's pretty standard and bland, but -- do you know what? -- it's LOVECRAFTIAN! It has tentacles and Cthulhu and Hydra and Dagon! Or creatures that are based on everyone's rendition of the the Great Old Ones!" We get it. It's cool. It's fashionable. But it's starting to be a bit too much. (There's also the fact that this was a very unfortunate choice of game title, since I'm Portuguese, and in European Portuguese "Conarium" just reminds us of an aquarium of... "a real nasty word for female genitalia")
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