Call of the Elder Gods

After the magnificent and absolutely perfect "Call of the Sea", we have a slight downgrade but still great game in Call of the Elder Gods. I for once understand all the creative and narrative choices the studio made, and even if I don't always agree with them, I get their thinking and give them points for trying. The game can be broken down to 3 main points: The Narrative: Call of the Sea was perfect. It had a perfect premise, great writing and an ending that closed the story properly. So the question is "where do we take from here"? The answer is to see another story, that of Evangeline, who also sees strange visions and contacts Harry from the first game and they go on an adventure. The game abandons the sweet and subtle love story, and opts for a "end of the world" narrative. Which works, but feels more, grandiose than the quiet last one. The writing for me is slightly worse. First, the Nora narrator doesn't work at all. It strikes in the nostalgia, but just that. The dialogues are ok, but eventually is always a "don't try to stop me prof. Everhart". Which grows tiresome very soon. The game adds many new narrative ideas (which I won't spoil) but this is due to the se…

"Call of the Outer Gods" is a sequel to a game I only just recently reviewed, "Call of the Sea." I was actually surprised at first that said game got a sequel. Not because it wasn't good, as my review of that game makes it pretty clear that I like it. No, I was just surprised because I didn't know what they could [i]do[/i] with a sequel. Well, now, having played it, I can say that I now see how they could do a sequel, as well as how they could, theoretically, make more games set in this "Call of" series. But did I like this one? Well, the recommendation says "yes," but it has a few little cavaets. This game's story, much like the previous one, is based on a Lovecraft story. This time, it's one of the last stories Lovecraft published, "The Shadow Out of Time." As such, it deals with the Great Race of Yith, and all of the body swapping sci-fi that entails. This story actually serves as a sort of sequel to that story too, as it takes place [i]after[/i] Peaslee's whole Yithian quest. It's an interesting thing to do, but given that this series is pretty loose with certain details in Lovecraft, as it had previously recontextualized the Deep Ones in "Call of the Sea," which is somethin…

I'm not sure I'd say the story was as good as the previous one, but it was still really nice. And that ending was so lovely. It was a good game with decent puzzles, and I would absolutely buy another!

Great game, great story, great puzzles!

the story is amazing the puzzle is fun one of the best game

TLDR: harder and better puzzle design than the last game, with a weaker narrative because it tried explaining too much. Still love this studio and am excited to see what they do next