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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Posted on: June 21, 2019

bobix92

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Chef d'oeuvre lovecraftien

Des graphismes originaux, une ambiance à découper au couteu, une histoire passionnante, des frissons et un stress réguliers : bienvenue à Illhouse, petite bourgade et lieu empli de sombres secrets. Une aventure vraiment inoubliable.

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Posted on: July 6, 2020

eljulo17

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A very good adventure

I discover the game and played in 2020. I really enjoyed the game, as i love read HP Lovecraft's books. A really immersive and fascinating story, good voices acting and very challenging too. I've played it for15 days to watch the end. The game is long but never boring. One of the best adventure game i've played. I trully recommend this masterpiece.

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Posted on: May 14, 2022

Robinson02

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Even for £1.19 on sale this was too much

I can’t believe this was a game put on shelves that passed any kind of quality checks. I like the atmosphere, even the over-the-top voice acting. That’s where the praise ends however. The interface and control scheme are awful, you can easily miss vital things and get your character stuck (both physically and in terms of the story). There is a heavy, actually exclusive, reliance on ‘trigger events’ (where certain things won’t work or appear before a particular unrelated thing has happened elsewhere). You may think you’ve searched somewhere, tried an item, talked to someone… but no, the game wasn’t ready yet. So you’ll spend an hour aimlessly wandering around, thinking you must be stupid, only to resort to a walkthrough and find out some arbitrary thing you need to do before an item magically appears in that box you already looked at. It degenerates into repetitive guess work, and that isn’t my idea of fun. There are a couple of things that I can’t imagine anyone could discover without a walkthrough: -Having to be close to an innocuous background item that the character hasn’t acknowledged at all previously and would have no reason to examine, while holding a certain item that it can combine with…and only after a certain event has happened. -Getting killed in a particular scene, but if you stand slightly to the right your character has the opportunity to escape, absolutely no logical reason why this is the case and no indication that you have to suddenly use the keyboard keys to move your character when you’ve been using the mouse up until then. -You’re told to speak to a guy for help (you spend the first third of the game looking for him), he agrees and you go with him…and die. No explanation at all. But if you don’t go with him, a random unrelated event happens and your character goes off with someone else…neither your character or the player would have any reason to know or do this. Spend your pound/dollar on a chocolate bar, it'll last longer!

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Posted on: July 28, 2022

Unlucky_Jmp

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A réserver aux fans !

Oui effectivement, à réserver aux fans, car ce jeux a très mal vieillit. Si, à l'époque de sa sortie, il a bien marché, c'est qu'il a joué sur le mythe lovecraftien qui lui a fait de la publicité. En plus, à l’époque, les jeux d'aventures n’étaient pas légions et on pardonnaient facilement les erreurs de gameplay : les déplacements sont mal faits, les graphismes sont minimal, ce qui nuit à la recherche d'objets ou de pistes pour avancer, la cohérence des énigmes est nulle et il faut parfois tout tester avant de trouver la bonne solution, ... Bref, si vous êtes fan laissez vous tenter, mais seulement si le prix veut bien descendre en dessous des 5€, sinon ça ne vaut pas le coup. Pour tout dire, même moi qui suit fan (et qui l'a déjà fait à l'époque de sa sortie), lorsque je me suis procuré cette version GOG, j'ai arrêté au 2ème écran !

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