Posted on: April 14, 2016
Hanglyman
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Fairly Awful
I had trouble even getting this game to run right- it seemed like the characters' movements were always too jerky and rapid, their mouths flapping a mile a minute and their eyes rolling wildly around in their heads, and the text boxes with their dialogue would linger a long, long, loooooooong time after the audio had concluded. Messing with the settings and framerate didn't really fix it, so I gave up and decided to go ahead and play the game anyway... and good lord, what a clunky, awkward, obnoxious interface. The walking is keyboard-based and hard to control, it's hard to tell what you can and can't interact with or how to use things together, you have to be EXACTLY lined up with a person or doorway to speak or travel... after I got killed because the damn walking controls wouldn't stop when I told them to, I finally decided it would be more fun to just watch a playthrough on YouTube. And then I found out that the crazy character movements and eternal pauses after each dialogue box weren't because of my system, the game is just badly made. Bad, confusing puzzles, lack of direction or clear goals, awful voice acting (made worse by the long pauses between literally EVER SINGLE line), shallow characters you can hardly interact with, and a plot that was a bit hard to follow even watching someone else play it, that seemingly has every major Lovecraft entity needlessly shoehorned in. The graphics are ok for the era but not very conducive to a Lovecraftian horror theme, the music is repetitive, the ending is cheesy and awful, and the bonus Lovecraft Museum feature is pretty lame and uninteresting. As a huge Lovecraft fan, I was really looking forward to this game, eagerly awaiting its release on GOG for years, but damn, what a disappointment. I hope Prisoner of Ice is better; I haven't tried that one yet. If you're looking for a good Lovecraft game, skip this and get Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (if you can stand the many, many bugs) or Eternal Darkness.
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