Minor correction: Cthulhu is not an Elder Thing. Elder Things are the creatures that lives at the south pole and created shoggoths (see At the Mountains of Madness)
Hey man, you're not calling everything Elder Gods, which puts you leaps and bounds above most as is. 😆 (For anyone curious, Outer God: Core entities like Azathoth and such Elder God: Gods of humanity and the dreamlands like Nodens, Bast, etc. Great Old Ones: Godlike beings that usually serve the outer gods. Cthulhu, Hastur, Ithaqua, etc)
My personal headcannon is with Jack dying he actually jumped back to the Yithian body and the main reasoning was due to his current human body was too psychological/physically damaged from dealing with everything in Innsmouth. Tbh wish we couldve actually witnessed what happens next with this story since even as jank the game is, the story was interesting as hell
Bro flipped so hard at the start he was sent to the Batman universe
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Fun story I have with this game, for years my family didn't have the money to update our computer to make it run properly. It took a long time until we (my brother, two friends and myself), could play the game. And then we found out about the infamous crash that the game had at the end. Years later we got the extended ending, it took like some "serious gaming mode", playing like 3 days straight, swapping keyboard between friends until we got the ending. I really would have like a sequel for the game. But it just wasn't meant to be.
@@markgregory2746 It also didn't help that a husband locking his wife up in the attic would raise a few red flags in Jack's head and wouldn't have looked good to any "sane" folk either. But it wasn't like he was expecting to be in a horror setting full of monsters as a Film Noir detective, nor would he have expected to face those Polyps with an Alien Gun.
Lots of memories of this game. I got it the day it came out, saved up money for it in high school. The part where you’re picked up from the sea onto a ship? There was a game breaking bug that would freeze the game after a certain doorway. Somebody on GameFAQs figured out if you walked *backwards* through the area that you could continue to play and skip the bug.
Best part of the game was the scene you unlock like 4 bolts to open a door. See a star spawn in the room. He just shuts and locks that right back and moves on with his day.
The mind swapping thing at the end is from another novella called "The Shadow Out of Time" and it's even crazier there - they swap places not only through space, but through time as well, to collect knowledge from every race and every era
There are so many names, places, events and characters from so many actual Lovecraft stories in this! It's like some creepy amalgamation of a lot of his more popular stories and entries. This game seems very cool I'd love to play this!
I read through the works of Lovecraft for the very first time quite recently and enjoyed most of them. "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was one of my favs. The atmosphere of the city, the eeriness, the people, the vibe, everything was so well written. Really surprised that the game stuck to the original works in many ways ("betwixt", "the Innsmouth look", the hotel sequence, arriving by the bus, Zadok Allen, etc.). And as always, Harry is on point to decode the whole thing pretty nicely.
I yet again will sing the praises of Cool Air, one of the silliest ideas but I think it pulls it off well. Basically Lovecraft had just learned of air conditioners and thought "how can I make a story about this?"
You made my day by covering this old gem. To this day it's one of the best if not the best Cthulhu games out there in my humble opinion (which is probably heavily influenced by nostalgia that I have for this game).
I remember renting this title at Blockbuster Video. I had no idea what it was based off of, but the dark and mysterious cover intrigued me. I didn't get far and had to return it early, but I had a major a-ha moment once I became a fan and delved into all things Lovecraft ❤❤❤
Wowzers I did not realise how old this game was gosh dang, I thought it was like 2010 onwards but no 5 years before that. Was a beautiful game & story to go with it
I remember being stuck on the coast guard ship level due to a bug where the sights of the cannon wouldn't zoom to the reef to show the mages creating the waves so you can eliminate them. Idk how to fix it, but I'm glad the indicators around the scope actually work and you can still take them out by reading the indicators.
I absolutely love this game. Even with the PC glitch at the sea sorcerers.... I remember playing it for the first time at my friends house with his og Xbox, he was completely terrified by the game, so i had to play it for him lmao. Later I got it for PC, with all the glitches... Still played it over and over.
Most people who had a terrible experience with this bug seem to have played it on console. I had the PC version and replayed it several times and never encountered a bug or crash. The graphics were subpar even for its time, but the atmosphere, story, and unique mechanics were what drew you in. From the lack of a HUD & target reticle, the way sanity and physical damage worked mechanically and visually where extremely inspiring and a bit ahead of the time. It wasn't perfect, but it didn't exist in other games back then, and frankly, pretty much no other game since has bothered to explore the same mechanics but with a more modern approach.
In the cancelled sequel, Jack diary play a big part in the game as it set in modern day from the look of the short trailer of the game. But from the synopsis it about a guy who found Jack diary.
I remember playing this and following along with 1up podcast as they played way back in the day. Good memories. This game is flawed but it definitely managed to create an amazing atmosphere.
Man, I'll be honest. This is pretty much one of the better game(s) based of the Cthulhu mythology, wish the studios didn't shut down though. Watching this makes my itch for those type of games to return, I might play a few of them. Have you covered The Sinking City? I also enjoyed the other ''call of cthulhu'' game.
0:39 The game shown here appears to be Reign of Cthulhu (which uses the ruleset from the cooperative board game called Pandemic) instead of the TTRPG mentioned in the voiceover. This is still a great video and game summary!
Hey Harry, recently subscribed to the channel and so far all lore and order videos been amazing and I hope this keep going. Quick question for you, are planning a video for “Cry of fear” ?
Unrelated but the weirdest complaint i've seen in the early days of plot summary videos was of one person getting mad that no one seems to be able to tell the full story without spoiling anything. To this day i still can't tell if he was serious or not 😂
You came for Harry's incredible work of explaining an underrated masterpiece. I came due to my PTSD from the jankyness of the game (also because harry uploaded a video) *We are not the same* (also I'm pretty sure Cthulhu isn't an elder thing but is instead a great old one like hastur, who serve the outer gods which include azathoth and crawling chaos. Could be wrong btw, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry in advance)
I remember playing this as a 14 year old kid and being fascinated by games mechanics. You fall from a high place? You broke your leg. No medkit. You need a stick and bandages to apply casket. I wonder why devs don't do this type of healing mechanics in survival horror games😢
@alexandernoskov60 didn't know they have the same mechanic but i meant almost all of the games have to have this. Closest one i saw was alone in the dark 5 i think and that was just applying spray to your body parts. It was essentially just RE Health spray with extra animations. Didn't cut it for me
I never played this game before but I would love to see this game have a remake as the story is very interesting and well put together. We also don’t get a lot of Lovecraft games so it be cool to see a classic come back from the dead and into the now of day market of open world videos games and battle passes.
Another minor correction. Jack, or rather the Yithian inhabiting Jack's body, did not spend six years in the asylum as stated at 34:40. Just before leaving for Innsmouth he explains that he was released from the asylum's care because he "posed no danger to himself or others", and has "learned little of my activities in the six years that followed." The accounts he was able to piece together - of his travels and study of occult, witch-cults, and dark legends - were those of the Yithian in our time (ostensibly told to him by other people - he's a detective, after all), not of his own memories in theirs, which were wiped clean and forgotten until he returned from The Deep.
One of my very favorites. This game scared the bejeezus of me so many times. I couldn't pass the hotel escape scene for months. It really needs a remaster and some improvements. Lovely gem. Too bad it didn't age too well.
So I have a hard time finding the Yithians frightening, other than scale, because I'd seen Futurama before ever seeing a depiction of the aliens from the story and it turns out Futurama used a visual throwaway joke as a shape shifting alien in one episode briefly turns into a Yithian, and in that context it was pretty goofy looking. And that's why Futurama is better than most things humanity has ever produced. I love that this game also allows you to lock the room door in the inn, and perhaps even choose not to lock it? Never played it, but it's a great touch from the story, since the protag doesn't realize the whole town is against him and he locks his door as an after thought...only to wake up in the night as someone tries opening his room door 😱. Legit scariest moment in the story!
This is one of my most favorite atmospheric horror games of all the times together with Alien isolation (the creepiest masterpiece ever made). Call of Cthulhu surely had it its share of game breaking bugs, budgetary problems during development but despite these this game is a masterpiece (a flawed masterpiece). I played it back in 2012 and now played in 2023 and I had one hell of a time. Great story and expectational atmosphere. If any game that seriously needs a remake- That is Call of Cthulhu-DCTOE.
When I was playing this game and reached the end of it, man I was thinking of the ending a long time. I love this Game even with all the issues it got🙂🙂
I really hope you’ll do the sinking city I played that game so much but felt like I needed a lore video to learn more but I have yet to find anyone who makes one
Never liked the fact that Jack died in the end, dude killed armies of monsters, then proceeded to kill both Dagon and Hydra. He was an absolute badass, and if I was in his shoes I'd probably work on ways to fight more of those things. Because he is proof that it can be done, humanity can not only survive, but fight back and win.
And, instead of a remake or remastered version, we had to endure that sunken city & that bearded self-pity-dude with his mental anguish BS in Call of Cthulhu... 🤕 Dark Corners of the Earth still was a somewhat Lovecraftian style at least.
Look at the game, The Shore. It seems like an interesting Lovecraft game. I've seen the game online and it seems to have a good amount of story and lore.
Minor correction: Cthulhu is not an Elder Thing. Elder Things are the creatures that lives at the south pole and created shoggoths (see At the Mountains of Madness)
Darn it haha. I got confused with Great Old Ones! Good spot. Thanks!
Hey man, you're not calling everything Elder Gods, which puts you leaps and bounds above most as is. 😆
(For anyone curious,
Outer God: Core entities like Azathoth and such
Elder God: Gods of humanity and the dreamlands like Nodens, Bast, etc.
Great Old Ones: Godlike beings that usually serve the outer gods. Cthulhu, Hastur, Ithaqua, etc)
@@SamuraiMujurunerd lmao
@nightrider7357 hey now, I resemble that remark!
@@Night-Rider101i bet youre a nerd in somethin too😂
My personal headcannon is with Jack dying he actually jumped back to the Yithian body and the main reasoning was due to his current human body was too psychological/physically damaged from dealing with everything in Innsmouth. Tbh wish we couldve actually witnessed what happens next with this story since even as jank the game is, the story was interesting as hell
yeah, honestly so many games end up being bad/terrible games, while the story is actually incredibly good.
I also thought the same thing, glad Im not alone
There was gonna be a sequel where you play as jack daughter who uses magic
Bro flipped so hard at the start he was sent to the Batman universe
Fun story I have with this game, for years my family didn't have the money to update our computer to make it run properly. It took a long time until we (my brother, two friends and myself), could play the game. And then we found out about the infamous crash that the game had at the end.
Years later we got the extended ending, it took like some "serious gaming mode", playing like 3 days straight, swapping keyboard between friends until we got the ending.
I really would have like a sequel for the game. But it just wasn't meant to be.
The part with the "mother" locked up always pissed me off. Jack should not been THAT DAFT
Oh yeah, Jack was a proper smoothbrain
Is it not part of cosmocism to be intrigued by things we can't understand? Our natural curiosity as humans is that of intrigue in these stories.
@@markgregory2746 It also didn't help that a husband locking his wife up in the attic would raise a few red flags in Jack's head and wouldn't have looked good to any "sane" folk either. But it wasn't like he was expecting to be in a horror setting full of monsters as a Film Noir detective, nor would he have expected to face those Polyps with an Alien Gun.
The chase sequence in the hotel was heart pounding. Great ending too
Damn Harry, i never thought id see you cover this! Flawed but underrated gem
I loved this back in the day. I’m gutted I hadn’t completed it before
@@GamingHarryYTyou're a wizard, Harry
Lots of memories of this game. I got it the day it came out, saved up money for it in high school. The part where you’re picked up from the sea onto a ship? There was a game breaking bug that would freeze the game after a certain doorway. Somebody on GameFAQs figured out if you walked *backwards* through the area that you could continue to play and skip the bug.
I beat it legitimately exactly once? On my first ever playthrough, and even expecting the bug since I heard everyone talk about it.
Best part of the game was the scene you unlock like 4 bolts to open a door. See a star spawn in the room. He just shuts and locks that right back and moves on with his day.
The mind swapping thing at the end is from another novella called "The Shadow Out of Time" and it's even crazier there - they swap places not only through space, but through time as well, to collect knowledge from every race and every era
This, "Eternal Darkness", and a beautiful gem called "Odin Sphere", are 3 of my very favorite videogames.
Fun fact: the madman in the jail next to Burnham is actually Henry, the police officer we meet in the beginning of the game.
There are so many names, places, events and characters from so many actual Lovecraft stories in this! It's like some creepy amalgamation of a lot of his more popular stories and entries. This game seems very cool I'd love to play this!
I bought this game the day it came out. It was absolutely fantastic.
Couldn't agree more!
I read through the works of Lovecraft for the very first time quite recently and enjoyed most of them. "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was one of my favs. The atmosphere of the city, the eeriness, the people, the vibe, everything was so well written.
Really surprised that the game stuck to the original works in many ways ("betwixt", "the Innsmouth look", the hotel sequence, arriving by the bus, Zadok Allen, etc.). And as always, Harry is on point to decode the whole thing pretty nicely.
Shadow over Innsmouth, In the mountains of madness and Whispering in the dark. Holly trio of H.P. Lovecraft ❤️
@@Krzemieniewski1 color out of space is just as good although with less "mythology" but incredibly atmospheric.
I yet again will sing the praises of Cool Air, one of the silliest ideas but I think it pulls it off well. Basically Lovecraft had just learned of air conditioners and thought "how can I make a story about this?"
You made my day by covering this old gem. To this day it's one of the best if not the best Cthulhu games out there in my humble opinion (which is probably heavily influenced by nostalgia that I have for this game).
It’s great how your fighting this diety and your just shooting it with a huge naval gun
Man I LOVED this game back then when Robbaz played it. Happy to see you cover this game!
Loved your videos! Awesome to see that you are going back to these relatively "old" games
Glad you like them!
@@GamingHarryYT Do we have plans for the sinking city?
Yeah at some point. Working through a backlog of games at the moment. But I can confirm that it’s on the list!
Would love to see Sinking City!
I remember renting this title at Blockbuster Video. I had no idea what it was based off of, but the dark and mysterious cover intrigued me. I didn't get far and had to return it early, but I had a major a-ha moment once I became a fan and delved into all things Lovecraft ❤❤❤
Can you do the sinking city, id love to see you do that game in your style of explanation. great video, great series, love your work
He posted about this game two weeks ago :)
Glad to see creators starts make fun of their own obligatory alert signs. That's a sign of a channel growing.
Awesome video, would love you to explain the game "fear and hunger"
Honestly love these more unknown games, they always seem to have a great storyline
This video is a one for all time. Kudos are in order for this one. Very entertaining and insightful.
Here after watching "The Sinking city" ✋️
Wowzers I did not realise how old this game was gosh dang, I thought it was like 2010 onwards but no 5 years before that. Was a beautiful game & story to go with it
This game was my jam back in the day. I couldn't finish it on PC because of the bugs but I had a good time.
I remember being stuck on the coast guard ship level due to a bug where the sights of the cannon wouldn't zoom to the reef to show the mages creating the waves so you can eliminate them. Idk how to fix it, but I'm glad the indicators around the scope actually work and you can still take them out by reading the indicators.
Clever use of different lovecraft stories combined into one game
That fight against father dagon is probably one of the coolest boss battles, yet at the same time one of the lamest ^^
I have not and desire not to play any of the games you cover, but these videos slap so hard!!!
Super cool game. I also love how these entities were so easily felled by human weapons. Dagon and Hydra got their asses kicked.
I just love to come home from work and watch some game explained, still waiting for dead space explanation😂☺️
Can you also do the 2018 version please!!!!!!
Ooooh new video! Literally the only channel I get excited for😅
I absolutely love this game. Even with the PC glitch at the sea sorcerers.... I remember playing it for the first time at my friends house with his og Xbox, he was completely terrified by the game, so i had to play it for him lmao. Later I got it for PC, with all the glitches... Still played it over and over.
Most people who had a terrible experience with this bug seem to have played it on console. I had the PC version and replayed it several times and never encountered a bug or crash. The graphics were subpar even for its time, but the atmosphere, story, and unique mechanics were what drew you in. From the lack of a HUD & target reticle, the way sanity and physical damage worked mechanically and visually where extremely inspiring and a bit ahead of the time. It wasn't perfect, but it didn't exist in other games back then, and frankly, pretty much no other game since has bothered to explore the same mechanics but with a more modern approach.
Thank you for this. It's the most thorough explanation of this game that I have ever seen.
Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any better, you post another video. Great day today
In the cancelled sequel, Jack diary play a big part in the game as it set in modern day from the look of the short trailer of the game. But from the synopsis it about a guy who found Jack diary.
The hotel room chase sequence in this game is anxiety fuel.
I still feel that this game had one of the most tense scenes when escaping the hotel
Game of my childhood. I loved it so much
harry you make my day
Ah the memories of pre- Amnesia "insanity points" and my brother and me getting scared shitless as monster approached... good times
I remember playing this and following along with 1up podcast as they played way back in the day. Good memories.
This game is flawed but it definitely managed to create an amazing atmosphere.
Man, I'll be honest. This is pretty much one of the better game(s) based of the Cthulhu mythology, wish the studios didn't shut down though.
Watching this makes my itch for those type of games to return, I might play a few of them.
Have you covered The Sinking City? I also enjoyed the other ''call of cthulhu'' game.
Not yet. But it's on the list
@@GamingHarryYT Looking forward to it. Just like all of your videos xD
May you have the blessing for the work, you've done
I love this game and to this day (in my opinion) has one of the best chase scenes in a video game.
Correction: The game is not based on a board game but actually is based on the Call of Cthulhu Role Playing Game: Escape from Innsmouth by Chaosium.
Please do a Lore & Order video for the recent Call of Cthulu game. I would love to see that one explained
To quote a great horror movie reviewer:
Hello, and welcome to HP Lovecraft Month.
This was great, Harry.
0:39 The game shown here appears to be Reign of Cthulhu (which uses the ruleset from the cooperative board game called Pandemic) instead of the TTRPG mentioned in the voiceover.
This is still a great video and game summary!
Hey Harry, recently subscribed to the channel and so far all lore and order videos been amazing and I hope this keep going. Quick question for you, are planning a video for “Cry of fear” ?
OMG Harry you got me stoked on this one
Unrelated but the weirdest complaint i've seen in the early days of plot summary videos was of one person getting mad that no one seems to be able to tell the full story without spoiling anything. To this day i still can't tell if he was serious or not 😂
Those type of people shouldn’t be allowed on the internet
You came for Harry's incredible work of explaining an underrated masterpiece. I came due to my PTSD from the jankyness of the game (also because harry uploaded a video)
*We are not the same*
(also I'm pretty sure Cthulhu isn't an elder thing but is instead a great old one like hastur, who serve the outer gods which include azathoth and crawling chaos. Could be wrong btw, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry in advance)
Oh one final thing! Thank you for explain it! Even though I play it personally but I have not fully understood it! Thank you
I remember playing this as a 14 year old kid and being fascinated by games mechanics. You fall from a high place? You broke your leg. No medkit. You need a stick and bandages to apply casket. I wonder why devs don't do this type of healing mechanics in survival horror games😢
Play DayZ and see that you are wrong.
@alexandernoskov60 didn't know they have the same mechanic but i meant almost all of the games have to have this. Closest one i saw was alone in the dark 5 i think and that was just applying spray to your body parts. It was essentially just RE Health spray with extra animations. Didn't cut it for me
@yirmiuc6107 fair enough
Oh dude I love this game thanks for making a video about it
Man, I was hoping you would cover this one. Nothing but the goodest of janky goodness in this game.
SO MUCH JANK.
I never played this game before but I would love to see this game have a remake as the story is very interesting and well put together. We also don’t get a lot of Lovecraft games so it be cool to see a classic come back from the dead and into the now of day market of open world videos games and battle passes.
Thank u for all the videos you make. I love them
Always loved this game. First played it on PC back in 05 or 06.
Another minor correction. Jack, or rather the Yithian inhabiting Jack's body, did not spend six years in the asylum as stated at 34:40. Just before leaving for Innsmouth he explains that he was released from the asylum's care because he "posed no danger to himself or others", and has "learned little of my activities in the six years that followed." The accounts he was able to piece together - of his travels and study of occult, witch-cults, and dark legends - were those of the Yithian in our time (ostensibly told to him by other people - he's a detective, after all), not of his own memories in theirs, which were wiped clean and forgotten until he returned from The Deep.
I have fever dreams about this game, because I never recall finishing it only that I played it
One of my very favorites. This game scared the bejeezus of me so many times. I couldn't pass the hotel escape scene for months. It really needs a remaster and some improvements. Lovely gem. Too bad it didn't age too well.
Loved that game! I played it on release, loved it.
I'd love to see a deadly premonition video, that game is all kinds of goofy and fun
I never got past the cannon segment. I had the fun glitch which made the priests I think invisible.
Always enjoy these! 🙂
Always thought this was an underrated game base on the cthulu mythos
So I have a hard time finding the Yithians frightening, other than scale, because I'd seen Futurama before ever seeing a depiction of the aliens from the story and it turns out Futurama used a visual throwaway joke as a shape shifting alien in one episode briefly turns into a Yithian, and in that context it was pretty goofy looking. And that's why Futurama is better than most things humanity has ever produced.
I love that this game also allows you to lock the room door in the inn, and perhaps even choose not to lock it? Never played it, but it's a great touch from the story, since the protag doesn't realize the whole town is against him and he locks his door as an after thought...only to wake up in the night as someone tries opening his room door 😱. Legit scariest moment in the story!
Perfect timing. I need this after being stuck in the airport all night. Gonna listen and decompress. ❤
Absolutely loved this game.
it deserves a remaster/remake , was such a good concept with some very innovative features and very good music, plus the aim sistem was not that bad,
Been waiting for this video....
This is one of my most favorite atmospheric horror games of all the times together with Alien isolation (the creepiest masterpiece ever made). Call of Cthulhu surely had it its share of game breaking bugs, budgetary problems during development but despite these this game is a masterpiece (a flawed masterpiece). I played it back in 2012 and now played in 2023 and I had one hell of a time. Great story and expectational atmosphere. If any game that seriously needs a remake- That is Call of Cthulhu-DCTOE.
When I was playing this game and reached the end of it, man I was thinking of the ending a long time. I love this Game even with all the issues it got🙂🙂
Thanks for the video!
Love your videos dude keep up the good work...
I really hope you’ll do the sinking city I played that game so much but felt like I needed a lore video to learn more but I have yet to find anyone who makes one
Love this channel
Never liked the fact that Jack died in the end, dude killed armies of monsters, then proceeded to kill both Dagon and Hydra. He was an absolute badass, and if I was in his shoes I'd probably work on ways to fight more of those things. Because he is proof that it can be done, humanity can not only survive, but fight back and win.
But jack was half fish himself
HP Lovecraft was a crazy man to think of all this but also name his cat what he did
I hadn't realized that the esoterica and Dagon in Ben 10 were actually an inspiration from somewhere else until I watched this video lol
The main villain was also inspired by Cthulhu. Octopus head.
Underrated game. So much of what they did would be awesome with todays tech.
Hope to see a video on both Call of cthulhu from 2018 and the sinking city :D
Loved this game! Sad that they didn’t make more😢
Harry do more Cthulhu games :3
One of my favourite games!
Wow, im amazed joker didnt try to turn him into a villain!
I managed to get the highest rank of this game on my old Xbox. For all the faults this game had, it was a pretty solid experience.
Finally a classic
And, instead of a remake or remastered version, we had to endure that sunken city & that bearded self-pity-dude with his mental anguish BS in Call of Cthulhu... 🤕 Dark Corners of the Earth still was a somewhat Lovecraftian style at least.
I think the Yithian body swap segment is referenced from his other story "Shadow out of Time" if I'm not wrong
Look at the game, The Shore. It seems like an interesting Lovecraft game. I've seen the game online and it seems to have a good amount of story and lore.
One of my fave games from back in the day, to bad I cannot get this to run on my modern PC
this game was sooooo good!