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By unique I mean the people are weird, the welcoming committee is a single old shotgun wielding lady, the hotel is run by a goblin that is most interested in your ability to breathe underwater, and the chain-smoking wellness instructor may or may not be cousins with octopuses. However, since that’s not the theme of the game, you agree to take the case and hop on the first (and only) bus out of Boston and into Innsmouth.Īs you may expect, Innsmouth is certainly a unique place. You’re not going to judge some woman’s kid’s looks when they’re missing, are you? Because if so, maybe the real monsters are not the Lovecraftian horrors, but man themself. Don’t worry that Thabita looks like a fish girl, that’s not important. A woman asks you to come to Innsmouth and find her missing daughter Thabita Marsh.

Thankfully, one happens to fall in your lap since you are the only guy available. You play as a detective who’s basically the only guy in Boston that doesn’t have some sort of job right now.

This may seem minor, but I always appreciate people going out of their way to note these kind of problematical figures and how their views are terrible even if their art isn’t. It states very clearly that, while his work is influential and defined the genre for likely years to come, it doesn’t mean he was a good person. So the question is, is that enough to keep you hooked to this story, or should you go find your humor elsewhere?īefore anything else, I just want to take a moment to appreciate that The Innsmouth Case opens up with the note that, yes, H.P. That’s already pretty great, and the fact that it does so with a cute visual novel style certainly makes things quite a bit better. Visual novel The Innsmouth Case seeks to do similar, combining the works of H.P. Take Cabin in the Woods as an example: the comedy mixed with the horror makes for a fantastic combination that is well worth watching. Something about it can make horror a little more scary than it already is. The Innsmouth Case Review – A Barrel of Lovelaughs