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)
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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😢
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!
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 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 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)
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.
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 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 ❤❤❤
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.
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 😂
I have this tabletop game and is AMAZING. Now I want to play this game, but also watch the video but if I watch the video, I will see spoilers Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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.
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.
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
@@GamingHarryYT I must be thinking of a different game then because I distinctively remember a boss fight on a boat against Cthulhu and it was some like bad turret section or something. But this game's final boss is Hydra so it can't be it.
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” ?
I loved this game when it came out. The game was buggy beyond belief and my game stopped on the ship, a hard crash if I recall. I couldn't bring myself to try again as I had narrowly dodged 2 other near game ending corruptions and this one was a bridge too far.
What's the name of the song that starts playing at the Cutter Urania section around 28:40? I've been looking for that exact song for a while, and I looked through a fair amount of the epidemicsound horror selection, but I can't find it EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. It's called Scared of Water by Kikoru
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 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 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.
I can understand why this game didn't really take off. While it does have a very intense story, much of the story can be rather hard to find as much of it is through the notes. As I remember it the island caves take up half the game and only the last part of the story itself, leaving the game feeling horrible unbalanced. Overall I think the gameplay takes a lot of inspiration from Half-Life, but Half-Life came out in 98 and Half-Life 2 was a departure from the original, which itself came out in 04. By 05 games like Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, and Res 4, leaving Dark Corners feeling like a game already older. Having said that, this is not 2005. When a game come out over 10 years ago matters less and this is certainly a game worth $5 on Steam.
No, Cthulhu is not an Elder Thing. Elder Things are a separate race that lived in the Antarctic and to a lesser extent underwater. He is one of the "Great Old Ones." A lower ranking one, but still one nonetheless. And the Yithian "World" was prehistoric Australia.
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.
It's sad that the second game got Cancelled so many games that would have been great ended before they started over some copyright bullshit or not enough funding. If I was president instead of sending billions to Ukraine I would fund game companies so they'd never have to cancel a game or cut content ever again.
It's an okay game, but I like Bethesda's lovecraftian contents more! Hehe that's a joke, they are mediocre company in terms of writing and creative deaign
