I'm not proud but I cheated.
Apr. 16th, 2019 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulI started playing Call of Cthulu last week (Tim got it for me for Christmas so it was about time!). I honestly could not remember why I asked for it, but now that I have played a little, I am guessing it must have been on a "If you liked Layers of Fear" list because this game is CREEPING ME OUT!
I don't know much about H.P. Lovecraft and his creepy stories so I'm not familiar with the lore the game is based on, which is fine. Up until about the 4th hour, the game is relatively chill. You play as a private investigator sent to look into a family death that was labeled an accident but the father of the dead woman doesn't believe it. And, of course, it looks like her husband was involved with cultists!
Anyway, the gameplay is a lot of chatting with NPCs and finding out what they know. You level up your detective skills and depending on where you put those points, different options open up to you. You also can trigger some sanity issues by finding items about the occult or uncovering a room full of mutilated corpses, which I'm sure will bite me in the ass later in the game. He started out stable and is currently listed as "shaken"...
And then a freakin' MONSTER just crawled out of a painting and is stalking me in a pitch black room! Now the detective is crawling on the floor, trying to avoid being scene. I was killed three times in a row and needed to quit out because it was stressing me out (I'm so awful at stealth) and I decided I was going to Google the key to surviving this section because I could feel myself getting far too tense. Now I technically know how to get through next time I'm brave enough to start the game...technically. I will still have to stealth around and it sounds like the "Shambler" doesn't always follow the same path (and if I make eye contact with it, I'm dead).
I hate looking up the "answer" to the puzzle but the scary was too much! Plus, I can only watch the detective get horribly stabbed by a faceless monster so many times in a row. :\
Do you ever cheat at games or puzzles to save your sanity?
I don't know much about H.P. Lovecraft and his creepy stories so I'm not familiar with the lore the game is based on, which is fine. Up until about the 4th hour, the game is relatively chill. You play as a private investigator sent to look into a family death that was labeled an accident but the father of the dead woman doesn't believe it. And, of course, it looks like her husband was involved with cultists!
Anyway, the gameplay is a lot of chatting with NPCs and finding out what they know. You level up your detective skills and depending on where you put those points, different options open up to you. You also can trigger some sanity issues by finding items about the occult or uncovering a room full of mutilated corpses, which I'm sure will bite me in the ass later in the game. He started out stable and is currently listed as "shaken"...
And then a freakin' MONSTER just crawled out of a painting and is stalking me in a pitch black room! Now the detective is crawling on the floor, trying to avoid being scene. I was killed three times in a row and needed to quit out because it was stressing me out (I'm so awful at stealth) and I decided I was going to Google the key to surviving this section because I could feel myself getting far too tense. Now I technically know how to get through next time I'm brave enough to start the game...technically. I will still have to stealth around and it sounds like the "Shambler" doesn't always follow the same path (and if I make eye contact with it, I'm dead).
I hate looking up the "answer" to the puzzle but the scary was too much! Plus, I can only watch the detective get horribly stabbed by a faceless monster so many times in a row. :\
Do you ever cheat at games or puzzles to save your sanity?
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Date: 2019-04-17 08:52 pm (UTC)I usually hesitate to look up cheats in games too, but I ended up doing that with Shadowrun: Dragonfall. I almost missed something in the beginning of the game. I ended up looking it up and starting over. The. I had to use cheats to level my character because I kept dying in one level.
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Date: 2019-04-18 12:22 am (UTC)You're making your game sound really cool though. My oldest nephew LOVES the Lovecraft stuff.