Chronicle of Innsmouth Reviews

Great point & click game with a lovely feel to it. There's a few moments in the late game where pixelhunting or trying every single option on the screen is required to find some needlessly obtuse answer, but that's very manageable still.

3/10 Speech: - over the top - slow (15 min+ cutscene...) - no fast forward clicking in cutscenes and a lot of dialogue lines Graphics: - very basic backgrounds and slightly better animation - small high res sprites on 320x200 backgrounds look wrong - some impossible puzzles b/c of bad game design - lack of hints to point you in some direction Story: - I like Lovecraft, this one is just told in an unable fashion - length would have been decent but I just stuck to the walkthrough to finish it fast Overall: - amateurish feel - hotspots are very tight and hard to find - takes tons of elements from Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, Sierra (towards the end of the game you get to die a LOT) and especially Monkey Island but somehow there's not much else either. I love those old games and this one is a bad rip-off that took everything just a step back + the fact that the dev team is Italian: +1

Voice-acting usually okay, sometimes quite bad. Pixel graphics fairly good. Music is bombastic and too much. The puzzles are okay, except for a couple of cheesies. The story is decent. This would be a recommend, except that as pretty much everyone else has said, near the end it devolves into completely aggravating and unnecessary timed events. Even though they're in the last 10 minutes of a several-hour game, I still considered quitting, because I knew what I wanted to do, but had to fight the interface every step of the way to do it, and this led to numerous unfair deaths. These events, in less than 5% of the game, really do push it from a yes to a no. Shame, really.