Get it? Tentacles? Because it's about Lovecr… oh, forget it. While all that happens, the funny side of this game will slowly and subtly creep in, like a set of extra-dimensional tentacles. You'll be asked whether you want to go to Innsmouth via bus or hitchhiking you'll have to decide between running away from a mob of cultists and hiding in the shadows you'll try to negotiate with captors, explore around, and find the best solution to the many problems that will be thrown at your feet. Oh boy, how silly it is!įor the most part, this is just a light-hearted take on The Shadow Over Innsmouth - like it's teen-friendly rewrite or something, with the choices offered in the many crossroads following a similarly "traditional" structure. The approach here is simple, as all good things are - and silly. The good news is that, unlike how most comedy titles nowadays lean towards the "hurr-hurr," meta, ironic, "look how funny we are" writing, this is anything like that, which is a blessing. Sure, good humour is in the eye of the beholder, thus it's kind of hard to explain why this is funny. If in need for some laughs, this has a plenty. This retains the typical dread and hopelessness associated with Lovecraft's body of work, with most roads of this choose-your-own-adventure leading to defeat, but if here for the frights, you won't get 'em. Inevitably, of course, the scale leans more towards the funny side, so don't expect this to creep you out much. Lovecraftian horror and comedy? Yes, jokes and eldritch scares are quite the unlikely pair, yet this manages to pull that off pretty well. What separates The Innsmouth Case from other tales of cosmic horror, however, is that this one is R'lyeh funny (no regrets for the pun). This is a place where great horrors are hiding in the waters a place of bizarre cults and religious fanatics a place where one of the 'Great Old Ones' sleeps. This wreck of a man soon gets a visit from the typical dame of noir films, who asks him to find her missing daughter, with all info leading to the coastal town of Innsmouth. This begins in a very… Lovecraft kind of manner, as the protagonist is a private investigator who is currently struggling with his growing pile of unpaid bills, as well as his growing love for the bottle.
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