The Sinking City
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The Sinking City
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By: Frogwares
Ninjabynight
Senior Content Writer
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The Good
- Storytelling stays true to Lovecraft’s sensibilities, both in subtle and overt ways
- city looks and sounds so convincingly disgusting, you can almost smell the rotten fish guts beneath your shoes
- set design is an intriguing interpretation of Lovecraft’s bleak and hopeless style
- pulls no punches when addressing delicate social issues.
The Bad
- Your stay in Oakmont lasts longer than the content warrants
- so many gameplay systems with very little introduction
- combat feels rather wooden.
Our Verdict
Good
A solid adventure that is generally enjoyable, though it lacks enough polish or ambition to recommend without caution.
Though it muddies the waters by needlessly cramming in a boatload of gameplay mechanics that drown out some of the fun, The Sinking City delivers a believable turn-of-the-century Lovecraftian setting and infuses it with fittingly macabre story beats that would do the author proud.
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