The Sinking City - Explained 

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Fun fact: while doing one of the side missions (related to mirrors) you can come across a photo of the owner of the manufacturer of these items, who can be recognized by people who have played The Witcher 3.

My friend and i played this game together. After some time, it devolved into us constantly grumbling about "they need a shoveling" and other such "shoveling" things because we started to kill the enemies using only the shovel

35:45 Resurrecting someone from ashes or their "essential salts" is a major thing that occurs in Lovecraft's story "The case of Charles Dexter Ward"

One aspect that's overlooked is the Fecund Mother, who's actually a manifestation of Shub-Niggurath, an Outer God way beyond the power of any of the Great Old Ones.

I'm not going to lie, the way you framed shooting Usha made me laugh so much more than it reasonably should have. But that timing and dry delivery was outstanding. Real 'So anyway I started blastin' type energy. Havn't had a good chuckle like that in a while.

If I recall Cthulhu Mythos correctly, if Cthulhu awakens it means that Apocalypse is already begun, is not directly responsable for it.

The IRL story of The Sinking City and the shenanigans that went on behind the scenes is almost as wild.

What I really love about this game is that the whole picking a choice thing is extremely smart in how it deceives you into believing it's a stupid good vs evil choice, but instead it goes way deeper than that and you are rewarded for actually using your brain and finding out about what's the right thing to do without artificial clues, but more thanks to enviromental storytelling. Case in point: in A Frosty Welcome, those who aren't really paying attention to the plot might think it's a shallow "Let poor guy go or have him killed for shits and giggle"... but when you listen carefully to the dialogues you realize the guy WASN'T hallucinating at all, and he didn't kill for hatred, he killed because he is part of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and was instructed to kill whoever left the expedition (if you are familiar with Lovecraft's stories, you know damn well Innsmouthers and Dagon are a big red flag), as explained by a letter later in the game. But guess what? If you decide to (rightfully) tell Throgmorton about him, a full blown race war starts, because the monkey guy is a bigot! And there what a shallow "save good guy vs kill good guy because I can" choice turns into a good dilemma. It's absurd to me how many people in threads and forums keep claiming the game has "poor writing" and "no brainer good choices" when the developers clearly intended for the player to fall for the easy apparent choice as a red herring. EDIT: So I replayed the game again and I totally forgot about most stuff. I was wrong about Lewis being part of the OED, it's heavily implied but never officially revealed. Billy Drummond hired someone simply referred as A. to sabotage the expedition, and this A. hired Lewis to kill whoever managed to get back to Oakmont. Billy is also part of the Yellow kings (big forshadowing with his yellow scarf)... so the whole thing was orchestrated by Johannes van der Berg since the very beginning.

I don’t play ANY video games but I’ve been binging all your videos. I think it’s the English major in me: video games are an underrated form of story telling.

For the record, Cthylla is Cthulhu's daughter, but in the Mythos, Cthylla can give birth to her father.

From what I saw and hear, the atmosphere and love for the lore is incredible. The nested side quests are a drag.

I don't have the time to play games but I absolutely love your breakdowns of the stories! I really hope your channel will grow even more, you deserve it, Harry!

As someone who has no time to play video games these days its nice to listen to you break them down as you play though them. Thanks for these.

"...towards a man named Robert Throgmorton" Me: My cousin Throckmorton the skateboarder???

Dude I LOVE your videos. They are so high quality, so full of atmosphere and yet condensed enough so I don't loose track of all the details. You're becoming one of my favorite channels on youtube and I can watch your content for hours continually withouth any problem :D Pls keep up the great work

Very happy with these consistent uploads, and since I just started reading some more of Lovecraft's works this video and Dark Corners could not have been timed better. Love to see more of these sort of games covered as I would not find the time to play them myself, and you sure know how to spin a story. Always looking forward to hear another one.

Wow...300k in 20 mins...as expected After finding your videos recently I've basically had you one background all throughout the day,i love lore and I love how in depth you go and naturally the jokes too

Great as always. I’m astounded at the frequency of videos without ever dipping in quality. Make sure you don’t burn out. Love the content!

Your videos, in particular the "Explained" videos are generally clear and easy to follow and you got a subscribe out of me and at least 15 views so far.

Thank you for finally making a video that comprehensively explains this game! This is why I love this channel!

This is awesome! You're the only person I've been able to find that's done and explain video in this game

I'm amazed this game was released so good. I've seen some of the issues the devs had with bugs etc which dragged it's production for years i didn't expect it to be so good and it also came around the same time as the call of chulthu game which was also very good but i prefer this one. The devs really paid attention to the hp lore and created a perfect atmosphere and narrative for this game. You really felt immersed into another universe,it was very unique for some of us that are long time fans of hp Lovecraft to see his creations come to life and be part of it. It's very rare to see a writer's universe represented so well in modern gaming or tv stories . We Lovecraft fans are very lucky in terms of gaming most of the games regarding lovecraftian universe are very good.

Another brilliant video man so much respect for what you do

“You wanna fishy” sits in my brain forever because of this dang game…

Been waiting for you to cover this one. Have not and probably will never play this game but was curious about the story. Thank you.

I asked for this back during your call of cthulhu video, great series, great channel, thanks harry, love your work.

Your videos are literally miracles coz the power just came back on

Enjoying the subtle humour/music, thank you for your work :)

Thank you for this!!! ive been waiting for you to cover this game

always happy to see you upload.

Hmm… I don’t really think that Van Der Berg is an avatar of Hastur since Hastur and his half-brother Cthulhu aren’t really in "good terms" in the Cthulhu Mythos. He’s probably more an avatar of Nyarlathotep which can explain why he try to help releasing Cthylla from the depths.

So happy you made a video about this amazing game!!! Thank you, you made the story more clear to me :)

I have been looking forward to this video for awhile

Been waiting for this for awhile…finally…

One of my favorite games. It takes more than just looking at documents. You can actually feel like a detective.

Great video! I played it a couple years ago and remember enjoying reading the notes of the (poor) town residents. They were so well written and interesting, I rarely enjoy reading screens of text as I did here. Apart from a few bugs I really liked it, guess it's just not for everyone.

I couldn't resist asking the "imperial wizard" to show me a magic trick. He is claiming to be a wizard 😂😂😂. This led to me killing everyone with a shovel. This game does have some funny moments😂

Thank you for the video, very interesting.

I’ve been waiting for a sinking city explained video🤩

I've replayed this so many times and still learned new things today.

I really loved this game, it was soooo satisfying piecing stuff together and the archives system was STELLAR. I think my only gripe with the game was wanting More from the endings

I loved this game so much, it is great to see your video on it ☺️

At min 30:11 the gang name " The Yellow Kings" might be inspired by Hastur who also comes out of the Cthulu myth

Wow, that was a really complex story with a lot going on. It kinda makes sense, since its a whole city, but wow.

Lovecraft loves luminescent algae

The game did great by not implementing GPS system like other modern games. It took days, or weeks just to explore the map entirely. There are so many accessible locations and rooms to discover outside the main storyline.

nice video man

Your production work ethic is inspiring!

Great job as always. Hopefully one day you want and can make a video of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Remake and Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game (2018)

I feel there should’ve been and Option to Seal “The King In Yellow” away. Honestly it would be interesting to have seen Ancient Magic to capture this god-like entity since he’s not only an Instigator of these events, but also had been using the main Character throughout the whole game! The endings I feel would be far better, knowing you removed this Neutral Evil from the World! Because it’s more than clear that as much as he doesn’t lift a finger to kill anyone, he is still using the MC to try and open the Prison to free his niece and his Evil Half-Brother into the mortal realm! Sealing Hastor (The King In Yellow) would keep the world safe and banish his influence.

Awesome video! Thank you for explaining! Also, if you're looking for another cool horror game I'd recommend Sally Face! Great story, great characters, great art style!

Love it. You the man

That twist on the Yellow King is awesome

I loved this game, would love for a sequel learning from mistakes made

The MSQ in this game is direct reference to all of the Cuthullu and his daughters HPL and adjescent authors stories while side stories are based on HPLs many other stories.

Thank Cthulhu that you made this video because I was never going to finish this game

The new Call of Cthulu next please. Love your videos as always.

My Favorit chuthulu game Nice to see you Cover it thanks

YESSSSSSSS! BEEN WANTING THIS THANK YOU!!!

I would be really thankfull if you would do the entire Story of Doom the lore is so big and it goes so deep if you could do that one day that would be awsome👌🏾

Saw what you did there! Eye to Eye😂😂😂

Feels like you had fun doing this one. Any plans on doing Song of Horror?

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Ooh thank you Harry, this is one of my favorite Lovecraft games.

This game was in the back of my brain! Tysm for doing this game

The more I hear Oakmont the more it sounds like POKÉMON to me for no reasons 😂😂😂

I seriously had so much fun playing the game. I play the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG a lot so this was a blast. Thank you for covering the game :D i played it on the Switch and was pretty annoyed by the shooting mechanics so i religiously avoided shooting lmao

Great content!

Thanks for the vid.

whoa hey I'm early have a good friday everyone

I was waiting for this one, I have a slight memory of seeing this game years ago and that it was reality bending from what I can recall! :D

Watching again just cant stop😶

Cool video. Why the Dredge spoilers though?

I freakin love this channel

Great video! Always thought it should be called "The Stinking City" with all that eldritch guts on the ground. Liked the game though!

Thanks for the random Dredge spoiler I guess. I literally started playing that game yesterday. 🙃

Loved the videos. Have you ever considered playing the two Resident Evil Revelations games? It’d be interesting to see how the lore connects with the main series.

Interesting, seen this game come by but had absolutely no knowledge about it what so ever. Expected it to be mainly underwater with a city there and such.

This game was such a goddamn blast, i adore and am obssesed with everything HP Lovecraft

cool video. thank you

Hey you should do the nightmare creatures series, it's an oldie but goodie.

Damn, Captain Sanders is frikkin ripped, serious case of old man strength there

Yes! This was one of your ‘Stories Explained’ that I was looking forward to! This game was a lot of fun, but definitely freaked me out. The ammo seemed pretty limited at times, and combat was so tough that exploring hostile areas was really nerve-wracking! Also, those underwater parts were pure terror for a guy like me…👀 Awesome stuff, Harry! I didn’t even know there was three endings! I thought there was only two!😅

Guess King in Yellow like to maintain his own style to witness the world.

Throgmorton really does look like his family tree is "robust". Especially the gene pool

"The door won't budge"

Awww yeah, time to get me that lore fix.

Cheers Fred! I started laughing 😂😂😂😂

I love cthulhu mythos games. It just always feels like low-budget/small companies that do release them. Wish a bigger company would spin their own take on it.

One thing I hate is the ‘oh lovecraft Ian is secret society’ Like… it isn’t secret 90% of the time, it’s there and people are aware of it but none of them really put a finger on it until it basically is just at their door step. Some games like blood borne cover this: everyone knows about it except for one or two secrets.

You need a Program and a Score-card to keep track of everyone and what they do. Enjoyed this upload. But now I need to find a comment-less Walk-through on YT to truly understand the story.

I thought they gave Cthulhu a daughter just for this game. But it turns out that she first appeared in 1975 in The Transition of Titus Crow.

Noïce i was early for this one 🎉🎉

I wonder why it's so hard for people to make a good Lovecraft story without trying to add their own "touch".

I love this channel 😍😍😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉❤

YES

Ahhh... Another gaming harry upload! Ima drop ny homework, this is more important...

Always down for more lovecraft

23:20 WELL. didn't see that coming