![]() ![]() Smugly pointing out the truth to the police is also a joy, though given that your decisions can have a minor impact on later events, it’s best not to get too carried away. In truth, all you’re really doing is searching a room and activating various key points but, bathed in blue light and with the ghostly after-images of a crime around you, you’ll feel like a true detective. This is especially the case when you’ve invested enough points in a particular skill tree to be able to call them out on their lies.Įqually rewarding are the crime-scene reconstructions (some optional, some not). It’s a testament to the quality of Call of Cthulhu’s writing that (though the quality of the voice-acting varies somewhat) picking apart someone’s story and watching them squirm is a highly satisfying endeavour. To make no inhumanly oversized bones about it, you’ll spend the bulk of Call of Cthulhu’s 10-hour playtime uncovering clues, interviewing suspects and, layer by layer, uncovering the truth. Your initial reception is far from hostile, and it’s police incompetence rather than enraged, fish-eyed locals that proves the greatest obstacle to your investigation. This leads you and your fanciful facial hair to a gloomy fishing village, so shrouded in green fog you’d think it was Cthulhu’s own chronic flatulence.īut while you might expect to be greeted by a pitchfork to the face (especially if you’ve read any of Lovecraft’s other works), Call of Cthulhu does an admirable job of inverting the usual Lovecraftian tropes while still remaining faithful to the author’s grim world. Based loosely upon the role-playing game of the same name, this supernatural detective adventure restores some of the dread that Lovecraft’s mythos is known for it’s not out-and-out terrifying, but it shows a greater appreciate for the author’s work (minus the borderline racism) than many other related properties.Īs the game’s bearded, traumatised World War I veteran (not to be confused with Vampyr’s bearded, traumatised, World War I veteran), you’re tasked with using your detective skills to investigate a fatal case of arson. It’s therefore a blessing that, despite the name, Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu makes the titular monstrosity a mere background character. ![]() Once a world-ending nightmare, Cthulhu has been reduced to a figure of fun whose gravest act would be to press his eldritch buttocks against a glass-fronted skyscraper. Lovecraft’s sinister, slumbering god has been so frequently appropriated by other authors, looking for a shortcut to terror, that he’s lost nearly any sense of menace. ![]()
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