03 February 2008

Laboured love

The boys at Zoetrope Interactive love their Lovecraft. Their latest game, Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, is a dripping tribute to HPL. It's a first-person, point-and-click, panoramic, step-wise adventure horror game that has more HPL references per second than any other game, including Mike Gentry's Anchorhead. But the dodgy interface, broken game mechanics, sketchy English translations, and limp plotting conspire to make this the opposite of good.

Link.