To quote Algeron Blackwood: It is conceivable that a force or being of such magnitude may still be left... It is a relic from an extremely ancient era... Perhaps, the ideas expressed in appearance and appearance disappeared long before the rise of higher human beings... Only poetry and legend capture some of the floating memories of what they looked like, and refer to them as gods, monsters, and beings in all kinds of myths...
A simple passage outlines the core of Cthulhu: the unknown, the inexplicable, the indescribable, and the indifference to humanity. The fear of the unknown is whether we should continue to explore the unknown and whether we can withstand the terrible consequences of knowing the truth, and which option is more terrible. And in Cthulhu's worldview, most of the gods have malice toward humans, and curiosity about the gods will evolve into the more they know, the closer they get out of control, and finally into a state of luxury in death.
Briefly describe the setting of Cthulhu, let us focus on the game, in recent years, Cthulhu culture has long been not limited to the small circle of coc running group products, the major game manufacturers in the face of the rising Croatian culture have thrown their own olive branch, so how about the specific performance, the following author will select ten games for brief description, from many aspects to analyze the application of Cthulhu elements in the game, ranking in no particular order.
NO.1 First of all, we want to talk about the ancient gods under the banner of Blizzard
The first to bear the brunt was C'Thun, based on the old ruler Cthulhu in Cthulhu mythology, but in fact it was closer to K'thun in styling. Yogg-Saron and Yog-Sothoth, Azeroth and Azathoth all have similarities in pronunciation and spelling.
Cthun
Cthulhu
Kussoun
Jugg Sotos
Yugsalon
If the above list is only similar and pronounced, then Sogos, the last member of the Abyss Glider Faceless, pays complete tribute to Cthulhu's appearance description, and the human body with the octopus head with a full face of tentacles is a complete copy.
Sogos
At the same time, the racial form of the fishman (self-brain supplement fishman appearance sound effect) is also a comprehensive tribute to the setting of the diver of Lovecraft's classic novel "The Haze of Innsmouth", the humanoid body with the head of the fish has a gill, the race is dominated by gray-green, and it is also a lower race in the entire worldview.
Fishman setting in the Blizzard
Deep divers
NO.2 Hearthstone Whispers of the Elder Gods card pack
Cite the official message that accompanies the card pack
Whispers in the Darkness: Legend has it that the mighty Elder Gods have been sleeping underground and on the ocean floor for countless centuries, and no mortal can resist the Whispers of the Elder Gods. The laughter in the inn, the sound of victory singing and the collision of beer cups are like alarm clocks that can't be turned off, maybe the ancient gods are awakened by these noises... No matter what the reason, in short, these nameless terrifying tentacle monsters have awakened, and their terrible corrupt breath spews out from the abyss! Don't worry, at least for now (for the time being) we're safe. Before the Elder Gods reign over all the living creatures of Azeroth, let's have two more drinks! Now that the Ancient Gods have awakened (and stretched out, rubbed many of their eyes with various tentacles, and ate a hearty nutritious breakfast), they intend to inject their evil power into Hearthstone cards and deliver it to mortals!
This passage corresponds to the one-to-one statement in The Call of Cthulhu: When the stars return, Lalayer will rise from the bottom of the sea, and the great Cthulhu will awaken. At the same time, in the promotional video that was launched with the card bag at that time, it was also clearly mentioned that the ancient gods had the ability to change their minds and corrupt creatures, which was also consistent with the negative feedback of the gods in the Cthulhu myth to snooping on knowledge.
Introducing this, the author remembers the horror of being dominated by Cthun's cosmology...
NO.3 The Elder Scrolls
What exactly is the Elder Scroll of the Elder Scrolls? The Elder Scrolls are the most powerful prophecy tool in the game world, the ultimate treasure of the Empire, containing everything that has happened and will happen.
To put it simply, the Scroll of The Elder Scrolls is an artifact that runs through the entire nairn world, and it is said that those who read the scrolls can learn about the past and the present and know the future, because the yearning for the artifact has attracted many people from ancient times to the present to find it, but no one has ever read it.
The blizzard mentioned above may only pay homage to a physical appearance, but the B Society has captured the characteristics of the Cthulhu element through this simple setting, and the more it is known, the more terrifying it is, and there is a demon god named Hermeus Mora in the Elder Scrolls, who knows all the power and knows everything, which can also be compared with Yugsothos, and the two have the same definition.
Hermeyus Mora
Demon God? You come to the village to kill a chicken to try, you dare to come to Austria, the shoes are kicked open for you!
Chicken God
NO.4 Fallout 3, Fallout 4
When it comes to radiation, we have to mention the classic novel "The Horrors of Dunweizhi". Fallout 3 has a building called dunwich building, after entering the player will have hallucinations, glare and trigger many mysterious events, by exploring the information searched for in the building, it will prove that the drilling company that occupies the building is just a false surface of the company, the top level of dunwich company is actually all cultists who believe in Yugsothos, the entire company is a stronghold established by the cult, by holding evil god sacrifices to please the evil gods, perhaps more knowledge of the evil gods.
Fallout 4 also has a place name called Dun Weizhi Drilling Company, which is also one of the cult's sacrifice sites, and after entering it, there are also frequent mysterious events, and you can see many illusions of terrible rituals, such as the living sacrifice, where you will get a knife for the sacrifice of the living, and the information found at the end of the level also proves that this is also the cult's sacrifice site, and the purpose of drilling here is to excavate the palace of the evil god buried here.
The author's impression of Fallout 4: the background of Fallout, the hidden meaning of The Enclave and the Bionic Man are all unknown, only that the player incarnates as the Toilet King to kill all the blood bars and endless loading mods
NO.5 Bloodborne
After chatting for half a day, I finally arrived at the old thief of Miyazaki, and the setting of the spirit vision in the blood source is that the more you see, the more crazy it will become, and intuitively the more difficult the boss battle. Everyone who has read the above knows that this is another homage to the Cthulhu element. The surrounding environment of the same blood source dlc fishing village "local people" is a perfect reproduction of the fishing village of "The Haze of Innsmouth".
In the setting of the boss, the old thief also borrowed a lot, such as Migo and Amigodala, lovecraft described Migo in the book: "The story describes something pink, five feet long. The crustacean-like body grew several pairs of gigantic pairs of organs that looked like dorsal fins or wings, as well as arrays of arthropods. In the position that should have been the head, there was a complex ellipsoid, which was covered with a large number of short tentacles... Sometimes they use all the arthropod crawls, while sometimes they only use the last pair of feet to walk. "It can be seen that it is very similar to Amigodala in the game.
Mi Go
Amigodala
Including the ultimate boss Luna defrauding hunters, seducing humans, and plunging humans into terror and despair to the point of insanity as their highest joy, it may be based on Naiaratotipu, because the daily style of the two can be said to be exactly the same as those of the brothers.
Luna
Naiaratotipu
The setting of the blood source story itself is actually not too much, a group of people pursue forbidden knowledge and explore the resting place of the gods, indulging in the blood of the gods eventually leads to the plague destroying Yanan, and the protagonist is also trapped in the eternal dream. However, one of the game endings to defeat the luna does have a little less charm, after all, in the keshi story, the evil god is always invincible.
However, as some players have said, the same story can also be changed from another angle, the protagonist is seriously ill and comes to town, and the doll, the sister, the cosmic beauty girl, the luna sister, and a group of beast ancestors to compose a love story.
NO.6 Darkest Dungeon®
The game genre is similar to a coc running group, combining Cthulhu elements, scary families and rouglike. Just as the gram system is full of unknown horrors and inexplicable weirdness, the game will come into contact with enemies attacking the spirit level, and if the enemy cannot be killed quickly at the beginning, it will bring a huge debuff effect and even the player character will directly go crazy after a few rounds.
The setting of the control unit in a variety of brutal battles, the negative effects caused by the gradual decline of the san value, and the final mental breakdown, losing his mind and falling into madness are all consistent with the ke system. (To this day, when I write these words, I still keep thinking about the picture of hypertension in my mind The mercenaries controlled by this game can make the author have high blood pressure at 360 degrees without dead angles, including but not limited to...
NO.7《海岸》The shore
The story takes place on a desert island full of horrors. The story is based on Lovecraft's series of works. As a father searching for his missing daughter, players encounter visual fictional monsters on a desert island while solving puzzling puzzles. While trying to save her daughter's life, she is also uncovering the secrets hidden in the depths of her own mind.
The game itself is not large, the total length of about three hours of play time, but the boring decryption and the author often encountered frame drop attacks during the game (laughs), so that this work is not very accepted by the player group, but the author seems to combine the characteristics of horror games with the original content of Lowe's original that people are most eager to see. Everyone is eager to see the "concrete" Lovecraft's alien gods, every day to understand the gods, can not see the gods, which makes people who want to understand annoying, and this game allows players to witness the evil gods appear in front of the eyes through the first person immersive, not only to satisfy people's curiosity, but also greatly strengthen the scenes and images described in Lowe's original book.
At the same time, the game itself is indeed suitable as a Rock's spin-off for friends Amway and Enlightenment. (If you ignore the gameplay time and boring decryption.)
NO.8 The Sinking City
The game itself is based on "The Haze of Innsmouth", which tells the story of the protagonist because of an accident, the Cyclops sunk, after being rescued, the memory is mixed, and it can always see indescribable hallucinations surrounding itself, but the protagonist himself is convinced that it is a real experience, thus gaining the Eye of Thought (the ability to go back to time), but as the use of the ability gradually becomes confused, as fate is destined to go to the city of Oakmont.
As the investigation deepens, it is revealed that the source of the hallucination was caused by Kesula, the daughter of Cthulhu, who was sealed in the Oakmont Deep Sea Temple "Segona". As the chosen one, the protagonist decides to spend his life exploring the truth of the matter, but the three endings that result from the discovery of the truth, as the Cthulhu myth aims, are tragic endings.
When the author plays this work, in addition to feeling that the late repetition is high and slightly boring, it is all positive feedback, the game for the shaping of the coastal city, the description of the NPC and the setting of the background, are all original, it can be said that on the basis of maintaining gameplay, the original novel has been restored to the greatest extent, and it is worth experiencing and playing repeatedly.
NO.9 Terraria
The Croat elements in Terraria can be said to be very straightforward, including the official statement that the moon lord and Cthulhu are brothers, such as the boss name Cthulhu Eye, Cthulhu Brain, and the Mountain of Flesh, hatching bloody terrain, etc.
Eye of Cthulhu
Cthulhu's Brain
Roshan
Leaving aside the elements of the name, we will first quote a passage from Lovecraft in Beyond the Ages: "The one I have glimpsed seeping out of the open door of the giant crypt is an incredible and deformed ugly behemoth... I might call it big and untouchable—raw with tentacles—long nose—octopus-like eyes—semi-amorphous—soft—partly scaly, partly wrinkled—ah! Anything I say is not even enough to suggest the disgusting, filthy, unequal, vast, unimaginable horror, hatred and evil displayed by the forbidden heir born in the darkness of chaos and the endless night. "The picture in the discourse is exactly the same as the appearance of Roshan, so the author is sure that the real body and prototype of Roshan is Cthulhu's eldest son, Gatanotoya.
Secondly, the bloody and corrupt terrain setting after defeating Roshan may also come from the article "Colors from the Stars", in Lovecraft's pen, the color of the stars hides in the depths of the well with the fall of meteorites, and absorbs the nutrients of the surrounding lifeforms, and after the star color matures, it will take away all the nutrients and colors of the surrounding land, leaving a wasteland that can never be cultivated, coinciding with the setting that the bloody and corrupt terrain will continue to increase over time and infect the surface tree plants and expand the scope of infection.
As a veteran game, Terraria has maintained its vitality through the collective efforts of players to develop mods, and the author also hopes to play monsters that gather all the elements of the gram in Terraria, while building infrastructure and constantly fighting with ancient gods, I hope that the day will come sooner!
NO.10 "Sucker of Love: First Date" sucker for love—first date
Here comes the heavyweight!!! Although the ranking is not in order, but after watching the first nine works, is not deeply felt the horror of the atmosphere of the Keshi element, if you are in the Keshi world, the author still recommends that you live longer as a fool, but many game manufacturers shape the Suffering of the Keshi, there are also the existence of another way.
DreadXP is the publisher of the indie horror game Dread X series. As a horror game publisher, it's okay to release some Cthulhu-themed games. But Released in late 2001, Sucker for Love: First Date is a Cthulhu-themed "romantic" visual novel and dating simulation in which players will pursue the woman of your dreams through ritual invocations, featuring three charming "maiden" characters, all based on the old rulers and gods of Cthulhu mythology, namely Cthulhu, Hasta, and Naiaratotip.
Players who have been ravaged by foreign gods and ancient gods to the point of collapse in the Gram world can consider playing this game to reverse control and relax their spirits, after all, who does not like to be in close contact with the suction cup mouth. Most of the author's spirit is corroded to the point of being yes in the process of querying the information, laughing