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Just today I finished this game, and although I liked it I ended up very dazzled about the whole story.

Here's all I understood about the story (or so I think, spoiler warning):

Jack investigated an old mansion, and had some very weird encounters there. He was found lying unconcious, and later was put in an insane asylum and was claimed suicidal but was released when he proved to be no harm to himself or others.
It was then six years later and Jack barely remembers anything of his past, and then he's sent to Innsmouth to find a missing person called Brian Burnham.
Jack quickly became the "wolf's head" of Innsmouth (meaning everyone and anyone could and wanted to kill him) and he soon had to find places to hide.
Jack met this girl named Ramona and was welcomed inside her house, and was suspicious when she said "Mommy bites". Jack accidentally releases the "mother" (which is one of the "Great Old Ones", I think they're called) which kills the daughter, and the police arrested the father for the crime.
Jack had to jailbreak the father and on the way realizes that Brian Burnham was also in jail, and finds out the father's dead, frees burnham with some help from his lover Ruth, etc.

This is where I start getting confused. Jack starts getting visions of Ramona and such, and soon enough he finds out some mysterious cases about Burnham and Innsmouth, and is also forcefully paired up with some from the FBI (who also worked with someone you found in Innsmouth, Mackey, an undercover detective), and learns about the Boston incident. I was really confused with the story at these points, and I only got small bits of it.

Then there's the ending. After killing mother Hydra, the "air filled tunnels" start to collapse, and after an ancient chant along with the artifact you activate the gate which teleports you back to a place you visited before where the FBI agents were (forgot the name).
Then there's a vision, or something like that, of you being summoned as some kind of creature and being told about some danger and mysterious wars. And then you're basically back to the beginning - when you become suicidal, except with hallucinations of Ramona.


For those who ever played the game or understand the story, please explain the entire thing to me. I never really got much of the story but it seems like an interesting one, and although I did read the original "Call of Cthulhu" short story I didn't get too much of it.

So if anyone could, please explain the story in detail.

-Adrian

I am a massive Lovecraft fan, but me sitting here and trying to type out the entirety of the story and what it all means is not going to do this justice, i suggest reading it again. Maybe take your time with it, a lot of people i know who don't get books usually read too fast and don't take any information in...


..which kind of defeats the point of reading in the first place.

I've actually re-read the original story many times, as well as "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", and there's a striking similarity between the two but I'm trying to comprehend the story that's in the game, which is faithful to the story but is by no means the same.

-Adrian

Damn I loved that one. I read with Call of Cthulhu and other stories, that were collected in one big book fulll of Lovecraft stories. There was some nice books. I especially liked Call of Cthulhu. And I actually got this game a week ago or so and I am now playing it. It's good so far. There is some good scares and I actually like the graphics too.

Yes it was a very nice game, a little confusing at times and kind of unfair, but overall it was probably the creepiest game I've ever played. The graphics are nothing fancy but the style really sets it apart.
Oh and once you finish it, maybe if you have a better understanding maybe you could explain it to me.

-Adrian