![]() ![]() In the game, you can choose to make him excel in things like investigation, or persuasion. He does have recurring nightmares from his experience in the last war. How do I talk about characters? Well, Edward Pierce is slightly bland but not to the point where he’s annoying me. If this were a shooter, a lot of Lovecraft fans would be disappointed. Other than that, gameplay is also walking through creepy hallucinations, searching for clues (one way through entering what is called a reconstruction scene), and there are some stealth elements as well. Since this is Lovecraft we are talking here, I wanted a situation as if I were reading my Necronomicon again seeing characters going mad, so I let Edward’s sanity break hahaha! Speaking of sanity, there is also an emphasis on that, which also affects the game’s ending and your perception of reality. Some chapters and areas weren’t greatly designed and I’ll get into that detail in a moment, but the game is like an RPG with a dialogue wheel, some responses are only unlockable if you have a skill at a certain level, and certain choices have dire consequences for the game’s ending and Edward’s sanity. It is kind of all over the place though, and I had to deal with some lag here and there, lowering the resolution didn’t always fix this and there were certain parts of the game where it was better or worse. The game’s environment is great though, it’s dark and terrifying, some parts are disturbing too but I went into this game expecting to see all of that. As the story progressed, I found Edward’s sanity slipping. He soon discovers there is a secret cult at work underneath the island and a “Miraculous Catch”. Upon arriving Darkwater, he discovers that there is a lot more at stake on the island and that the Hawkins case, may not have been a fire. Edward, as a former war veteran frequently suffers from nightmares and self-medicates with sedatives and alcohol but accepts the job nonetheless. The story is different from the original book, revolving around Detective Edward Pierce who is called to investigate a case on the Hawkins family living on the island Darkwater. Welcome to my first game review of 2022! Another game beat, it seems that I’ve spent the last few months clearing the horror games on my backlog the most since I’ve started to enjoy survival horror games more! This one I had to play since I’m a Lovecraft fan, it’s inspired by his most famous piece The Call of Cthulhu.
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