So I am a huge lover of horror, so I'm sort of predisposed to also loving cosmic horror and the ever popular "Lovecraft Mythos". However, it's always been very unfortunate that Lovecraft himself was a horrid racist, if you were unaware you can look up information about that quite easily.
I've always been a bit displeased with the fervor for Lovecraft, but the lack of addressing his shittiness by most of the fandom. Finally, a game has come around and actually directly addressed this, and mock a lot of his views directly in game while also putting positive representation in the experience as well to balance out the shittiness in adapting several things accurately.
First, when you boot up the game you're greeted with this very thoughtful screen right off the bat before you even hit the title screen:
Though the thoughtfulness doesn't end there. As you play through the game you encounter several obvious and proud "racists" which are not portrayed as good people in the slightest, to the point where you even reach a building which hosts KKK gatherings. In here you meet their "Grand Wizard" in which he is a vile person where the outcome is to always to kill him, but to go even further there is a gold trophy (the highest level trophy you can get outside platinum) to simply mock this individual as shown in the video below. This is something I found quite amusing.
Also there is another storyline in which you find several very blatent clues as to multiple individuals in the game being gay and it doesn't try to hide this fact, though the characters of course need to by nature of the time period they are in:
I just wanted to give props to the dev team for being decent enough people to adopt the strong mythos of Lovecraft which have always been extremely intriguing and stylistically cool, while being able to also rework it into a modern context and lambast the creator for his horrible opinions.
I've always been a bit displeased with the fervor for Lovecraft, but the lack of addressing his shittiness by most of the fandom. Finally, a game has come around and actually directly addressed this, and mock a lot of his views directly in game while also putting positive representation in the experience as well to balance out the shittiness in adapting several things accurately.
First, when you boot up the game you're greeted with this very thoughtful screen right off the bat before you even hit the title screen:
Though the thoughtfulness doesn't end there. As you play through the game you encounter several obvious and proud "racists" which are not portrayed as good people in the slightest, to the point where you even reach a building which hosts KKK gatherings. In here you meet their "Grand Wizard" in which he is a vile person where the outcome is to always to kill him, but to go even further there is a gold trophy (the highest level trophy you can get outside platinum) to simply mock this individual as shown in the video below. This is something I found quite amusing.
Also there is another storyline in which you find several very blatent clues as to multiple individuals in the game being gay and it doesn't try to hide this fact, though the characters of course need to by nature of the time period they are in:
I just wanted to give props to the dev team for being decent enough people to adopt the strong mythos of Lovecraft which have always been extremely intriguing and stylistically cool, while being able to also rework it into a modern context and lambast the creator for his horrible opinions.
