There's a frail and senile old man, they say, who lives alone on the edge of town and pays for his groceries with gold dubloons... the perfect mark for a trio of goons in this short but supremely creepy freeware indie point-and-click adventure based on the original tale by Lovecraft.
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Well, that was... underwhelming. All of two scenes and nothing else. I've not read the story this is based upon yet, but if it's that short, I'm going to have to say the team could've chosen a better story.
Strange.
I guessed that the old man would be evil...based on the title, the little I know of H.P. Lovecraft, and the setup of the game itself. But what actually happened?
Obviously he murdered the mafia men, but how? What was that creepy yellow-eyed thing going on when he came out of the house? Was he a werewolf? Demon-possessed? Just an old man who got away with murder?
It was hard to feel sorry for the mafia men, because
They didn't really deserve murder, but at the same time they kind of deserved what they got for trying to take advantage of and rob an old man.
Largely,
Lovecraft deals in unknowable evils. (Or more commonly the concept of vast unknowables, period, that our brains can't comprehend.) People stumbling across things they can't explain or understand, predators that are impossible to escape. They talk about the old man having used to be a sailor, and now he's come back changed. Look at it as a play on your basic fear of strangers and odd behaviour... sure that old man down the street might just seem eccentric and weird, but what if he wasn't so innocent or harmless? As the locals in the bar say, the man in the game is someone they're all sort of afraid of without being able to explain why... it's the concept of there being a monster in your midst and not knowing it until it's too late. You aren't supposed to feel sorry for the robbers... it's more a very classic cautionary tale of people getting their just desserts. :) They thought they had an easy mark, and surely planned to prey on the old man, and were preyed on in turn. You can read the original story anywhere online with a quick search!
Thanks for the response!
So I guess we're not supposed to know what the old man was or how he killed them. I guess to me he just seems like a crazy old man, brain fried from age and horrific sights on the sea, with extensive knowledge on how bodies look when they're just washed up. Or maybe he's a werewolf.
Lovecraft was like that. All of his stories are sort of vague in the particulars of the horror. Lots of them leave out the actual horror altogether. He uses a lot of characters that "come back changed" or "saw things too terrible to describe". And, when it comes to the actual monster or terrible event, that's all you get. It actually bugs me a lot. I don't like reading his stuff, for all that I sort of dig the eldritch nature of it, because most of his stuff boils down to, "I saw some nasty stuff, and it killed old Fred, so you bugger right off, then, but I have been changed by it, so I'm going to go fight it and die, and you'll never see me again."
It's about as abrupt and inexplicable as its source material. In one way, it makes it hard to blame the game. In another, it kinda makes me want to ask, "Why use this source material?"
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