Call of Cthulhu will test our mental health for 15 long hours
Although it is still unknown when we will precisely explore the nightmares in a new video game inspired by the work of a famous US horror, science fiction and fantasy writter H. P. Lovecraft, developer Cyanide has revealed what we can be happy about. In fact, main designer Romain Wiart "blurted" during an interview for one British magazine.
According to him, Call of Cthulhu will be a video game whose adventures with Lovecraft's mythology will last depending on the level of mental health of our protagonist. In other words, if we lose our common sense while wandering through occult roads, there is less chance that we will discover everything that the remote island offers:
"It's very simple. How your mental health suffers in a novel or pen-and-paper RPG, this will be the case in this title as well. So, the only control you really have is a small crack of 'common sense'. By making the right decisions, your mental state will grow, and you will have control over the ending - will you be offered a choice or not and will you experience some things or not. That's how it works. At the end of the game you have a few endings, but if your anxiety grows [level of madness] you're being offered fewer final options since your character can not make rational decisions."
Given that our decisions open some, and close other ways, Wiart has announced that access to it will depend on the protagonist's endurance, skills, and some earlier choices. No matter how you behave, we will always experience the same story within 12 to 15 hours, but there are always new things to discover and our adventure can take longer.
Finally, it has been said that each area of Call of Cthulhu will revive a different phobia and that we will all be able to experience them individually. " Lets say, sometimes you will be like: 'Well, I see the entrance - but I will not go there. I'd rather choose this because I do not want a reminder of what has happened before. "
Tagged with: Horror Games, Horror themes
