Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss

The graphics are awesome, I really enjoyed exploration and game's atmosphere. The story is also interesting and overall I think it was fun to play, BUT... Some puzzles seem not logical and are rather frustrating. There are a lof of bugs and few times I got stuck on surface I probably wasn't intended to be on (during invisible tentacles chapter) - I fell down so many times I thought I won't be able to move forward anymore because everywhere I went I just fell and died and then got back at the same place. Finally I used "respawn" option but then my saves were bugged and it restarted from there every time, even if I moved forward with chapters. It is confusing if some areas aren't meant to be explored as there are some problems with colliding with some surfaces - even when I'm supposed to exit water there. I also had reddish screen for most of the game after chapter with invisible tentacles as if I was always standing on those, even when I moved forward with chapters. It was slightly annoying but didn't break the game (sometimes I could't open menu, as "It isn't safe here"). Voice acting is awful. It's very anticlimatic for horror game and Key as AI sounds just weird with all voice modulation. I would expect it to be less emotional and most of her comments were just weird. I appreciate that there were so many recordings to find but those still sounded too unnatural. Like people were reading their lines not, saying things. Too much pauses (trying to sound dramatic) which sounds even less convincing. Characters are quite dissapointing - I didn't feel connection to any of them, Elsa was this absent super cool mentor that Noah looked up to and most of the game he gave the vibe of an abandoned kid who looked for his mom, not special agent on an important mission. It felt like he had no agenda on his own, just waited for women (Elsa and Key) to tell him what to do. The ending was nice, but it's shame that actions through the game doesn't matter much with the ending. Overall I recommend it but it's far from perfect. 6/10

Katastrofa.

LE JEU FAIS QUE BUGER LA SOURIS ES VISBLE QUAND JE JOUE LA TOUCHE F NE FONCTIONNE PAS MEME DANS LES PARAMETRE

游戏本身环境塑造和剧情阐述都很有氛围，对于深海潜航刻画的入木三分，但是游戏并不提供保存功能以及无法判断是否有保存，经常丢失进度。。。。。。

Interresting game/lore/mechanics Did work on Linux but needed to force keyloayout (with `env XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us` to avoid a glitch where the mapping isn't working correctly). Didn't had other bugs as some reported. Only two bad design : the "invisible path" in one of the late level is quit frustrating to handle ; And during the vault it's seem that we can soft lock ourself by removing a key without having what we need to re-use it...

Quality game good exploration, atmosphere and story and LORD CTHULHU, wasn't a fan of the investigation side of things but got it done. will look forward to more from this dev