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6/15/2025, 3:23:57 PM
>>712721605
There are few distinct types. Here's how I like to call them.
>IT WAS ME BARRY!
You play through an otherwise normal game and suddenly the final boss or mysterious manipulative characters throws off his mask and hearken! It was the fearsome Nyarlapipi (or homebrew entity) underneath! I rate these surprises on the same level as Doom: Repercussions of Evil. They can still be nice if they recontextualise the whole earlier game. DUSK comes to mind.
>Fanboy
You can see that the devs have read Lovecraft and really, really, really liked the lore. And the names. The names keep dropping. And how other people said they behave and look like. So you will meet Xinfoteph the Unmutable planning to drive away the Yiddites from planet Atlantis before "Great Shadow of the Dark Cloud" descends upon Arkham City. Then a tender tendril spurs up from a crack in space and the whole cast shouts in unison "TEKE-LILI! The great destroyer Sup Nigga'rath is here!" I rate these somewhere along a school essay project and SCP page. See most anything that advertises itself as "cosmic horror" or "lovecraftian"
>"What the fuck is this? Is there even any cosmic horror going on?"
Something is very clearly wrong. Or at least right in the wrong way. It could be the strange phenomenon in the atmosphere. Or it could be something powerful and sentient twisting things. Okay, that sequence was most definitely a dream.... probably. Is the whole game just a dream or story? The game might even insist that there are no niggermen involved and the complex being full of clones of you that seem to have equipment of your earlier characters is because the singularity of the power plant is malfunctioning. The biggest problem with these is that they are often NOT tagged lovecraftian or similar due to the subtlety. E.Y.E and Alan Wake are probably the best ones of these I have played.
There are few distinct types. Here's how I like to call them.
>IT WAS ME BARRY!
You play through an otherwise normal game and suddenly the final boss or mysterious manipulative characters throws off his mask and hearken! It was the fearsome Nyarlapipi (or homebrew entity) underneath! I rate these surprises on the same level as Doom: Repercussions of Evil. They can still be nice if they recontextualise the whole earlier game. DUSK comes to mind.
>Fanboy
You can see that the devs have read Lovecraft and really, really, really liked the lore. And the names. The names keep dropping. And how other people said they behave and look like. So you will meet Xinfoteph the Unmutable planning to drive away the Yiddites from planet Atlantis before "Great Shadow of the Dark Cloud" descends upon Arkham City. Then a tender tendril spurs up from a crack in space and the whole cast shouts in unison "TEKE-LILI! The great destroyer Sup Nigga'rath is here!" I rate these somewhere along a school essay project and SCP page. See most anything that advertises itself as "cosmic horror" or "lovecraftian"
>"What the fuck is this? Is there even any cosmic horror going on?"
Something is very clearly wrong. Or at least right in the wrong way. It could be the strange phenomenon in the atmosphere. Or it could be something powerful and sentient twisting things. Okay, that sequence was most definitely a dream.... probably. Is the whole game just a dream or story? The game might even insist that there are no niggermen involved and the complex being full of clones of you that seem to have equipment of your earlier characters is because the singularity of the power plant is malfunctioning. The biggest problem with these is that they are often NOT tagged lovecraftian or similar due to the subtlety. E.Y.E and Alan Wake are probably the best ones of these I have played.
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