Sure, this can be uncanny in some cases, yet unconvincing in others.Ī stealth game that opts to focus more on stealth than combat is fine actually, in many ways it holds the potential to be far more interesting mechanically than its gun-toting, rip-roaring counterparts where a covert opts mission can become a war zone at the drop of a hat. The scenic and structural elements of Call of Cthulhu are seriously well done however, anything that is tasked to move does so in the most awkward way possible. Really, that’s the kind of arbitrary situation that the frantic movements of characters call upon, aside from when they’re trying to pull their hand out of their face after having lodged it there in an attempt to have a smoke. However, it becomes difficult to take the game seriously when someone who is supposed to deliver a statement imbued with the core of the game’s horror is waving his arms about in a way that makes it seem as if he’s just telling you that he’s off to the shop because you’ve ran out of bananas. I don’t say this in order to devalue the hard work of people who did so many things right. I mean it in the sense that he who smokes a cigarette impales his cheek with his knuckles, the cigarette temporarily disappearing into a parallel, Cthulhu-less universe. I don’t mean this in the way in which the residents of The Shadow Over Innsmouth walk in a way that resembles that of an amphibian soul locked within the clumsy infrastructure of the human body. That said, no one moves like an actual human. Eliot’s feline fog, the smells of all things dead and buried lick the walls and stretch themselves out to bask in the artificial light of a fluorescent asylum bulb that has confined itself to an existence spent flickering on and off, with light and darkness being equally terrifying. The hues of sickly shades of green create a damp and cold world in which the most repulsive stenches imaginable mingle with the air itself. It does earn some other badges, though, and it is by no means a bad game.Ĭall of Cthulhu‘s art design is fantastic. Bloodborne springs to mind as a game that masterfully played with the “-ian ” Call of Cthulhu doesn’t get that badge of honor, I’m afraid. While it’s fine to stay true to your source, many games in the past have done the exact same thing. Nods to Miskatonic University here and there lend themselves well to pleasing a fan of the source material, but overtly ostensible injections of Lovecraft into the heart of the game can sometimes spoil the momentum it manages to build by itself. While the game does contain a lot of “Lovecraft,” it doesn’t delve as deeply into the suffixed “-ian” to be truly innovative in a worthwhile sense. However, this game-like so many others-leans toward the wrong end of the adjective Lovecraftian. Call of Cthulhuis a game that does a lot of things right, but gets some other bits wrong here and there in fact, some of its horrors aren’t all that to do with genre. Lovecraft wrote some of the greatest weird fiction tales of all time, yet is perhaps used as a crutch a little too often in contemporary storytelling. Legit the closest feeling to flying besides that fake falling thing you do when you’re asleep.Lovecraftian-the delightful adjective we have assigned to all that borders on cosmic horror.

During the first movement, whenever the piano slows down a bit to let the wind and strings/ brass take over, I feel my soul literally start ascending. So much energy but much less angst than movement one. The second movement is pretty in a depressing manner and much smoother than the first, and then the third movement feels like a goddamn sugar rush.

This might come of as maybe just a **little** dramatic but uhh It sounds like marching towards the devil himself to beat the shit outta him until he returns the souls of the loved ones you’ve lost. Istg I almost pass out every time I hear it. And at the center of it all, about 6:50 into the average recording, the Crescendo. Rachmaninoff himself was depressed at the time and didn’t want to write anything but he managed to pull through and just casually drop this gem on the world. I cannot even fathom how someone writes such a terrifyingly incredible (and difficult) Piano Line. Not to mention just how immaculate✨ the genius of Rach is. It sounds like losing the person you love the most, and fighting for emotional closure mid performance. I have listened to Rachmaninoff’s second Piano concerto like 400 times in the past 5 days.

Angry listening to music meme