However, Lovecraft fans will immediately recognise references to Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family and The Shadow over Innsmouth. The story is by far the most enjoyable and most important element of the game. It would do you no favours to have me delve further into the narrative of The Sinking City. It’s up to Reed to find out what happened but it’s only the beginning of his case. The patriarch has organised an expedition under the ocean to recover an artefact but his son has vanished. Reed is soon introduced to the Throgmorton family wealthy and powerful. The never-ending rain, the increasing flood waters, Wylebeasts, racial tension, murder and rising crime. On meeting Van Der Berg, Reed learns of the issues plaguing Oakmont. It’s here that the game begins and so too does your journey into madness. He falls and as he does so he wakes in the same bed, aboard the same boat, only now, it’s docked at Oakmont.
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A cutscene shows Reed on his bed, aboard a boat sailing underneath the ocean while betentacled behemoths swim alongside.
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Many people in Oakmont share the visions that Reed experiences and they’re far more common in the city than anywhere else.Įven before you’re in control of Reed, The Sinking City makes it clear that anything and everything you see may or may not be real. However, Reed has something in common with many residents of this sodden, flooded city his visions. Oakmont is an insular, wary society and ‘Outsiders’ - such as Reed - are not fondly welcomed. Reed has been plagued by visions and nightmares for years and Oakmont resident Johannes Van der Berg may hold the answer. The Sinking City ReviewĬharles Reed, an ex-Navy sailor and veteran of World War I turned Private Investigator journeys to Oakmont, Massachusetts.
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The Sinking City is a game that reaches beyond your TV screen and drags you into the sodden, damp, depressing mess of Oakmont. It’s thrilling, frightening, mystifying and spellbinding at the same time. It’s janky, a little unpolished and ugly but I couldn’t stop playing it. The Sinking City from Frogwares manages to achieve the same feat. It pulls at you, whispers to you and drags you into its grasp, somehow managing to be strangely seductive and horrifying all at once. There’s something deeply primal, dark and alluring about the Cthulhu Mythos. I even played game after game of Arkham Horror without realising it was based on Call of Cthulhu for far too long. It wasn’t until years after I’d played it that I realised it was inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos and borrowed heavily from H.P. One of my most played and favourite Gamecube games was Eternal Darkness.
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I liked Lovecraftian horror before I even knew what it was.