{"id":762,"date":"2011-06-07T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=762"},"modified":"2011-06-07T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:56:47","slug":"cthulhu-saves-the-world-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/06\/cthulhu-saves-the-world-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu Saves the World (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_763\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Cthulhu-Saves-the-World\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-763\" title=\"Cthulhu Saves the World\" src=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TUO19-Cthulhu-Saves-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cthulhu Saves the World\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TUO19-Cthulhu-Saves-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TUO19-Cthulhu-Saves.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cthulhu Saves the World<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cthulhu Saves the World<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Zeboyd Games, $3.00 (zeboyd.com)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember the classic 8-bit RPGs like <em>Final Fantasy, Fantasy Star,<\/em> and pretty much anything else with \u201cFantasy\u201d in the title?\u00a0 Do you find yourself often wistfully saying, \u201cThey just don\u2019t make \u2018em like that anymore?\u201d Well, how cool would it be to play one of those retro games but with Great Cthulhu as your main character? Not only that, but you get weapons and armor (after all, the only thing scarier than Cthulhu is Cthulhu with a broadsword), a band of weird allies (like a groupie who is oddly amorous toward our favorite Great Old One), and you travel to such familiar locations as Miskatonic University, Innsmouth and Dunwich.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like the game for you, you\u2019re not alone. I, and the people at Zeboyd Games, would agree. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Cthulhu-Saves-the-World\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550756\">Cthulhu Saves the World<\/a><\/em> is the little indie game they made, I enjoyed, and you need to get if you are a HPL fan. I know you\u2019re that, since you&#8217;re reading <em>The Unspeakable Oath,<\/em> but there is one caveat. You\u2019ve got to have Xbox Live to get this. Yeah, that\u2019s kind of limiting, but the good news is that <em>Cthulhu Saves the World<\/em> is only three bucks!<\/p>\n<p>This is the part where I usually discuss whether the game is worth the price, but come on, it\u2019s three bucks! A small coffee at Starbucks costs more. This game is more than worth the pittance they\u2019re asking for it. You get an 8 to 10-hour main adventure, seven playable characters, nods to Lovecraft, and best of all, silliness. Lots and lots of silliness.<\/p>\n<p>You play as Great Cthulhu freshly awaken and on his way to destroy the world. Too bad a mysterious wizard was waiting and sucked all of Cthulhu&#8217;s Great Old One mojo away, turning him into a shadow of his former self. Luckily Cthulhu overhears the game\u2019s narrator saying that the only way for him to get his power back is to become a true hero. How does one do that in a digital RPG? By being a good guy and helping people out. Naturally that is the last thing Mighty Cthulhu wants to do, but that won\u2019t stop him from fulfilling his destiny. So you must gather some friends, delve into a number of dangerous dungeons and do battle with obligatory orcs, the far less common flying hearts, not to mention zombies (which Cthulhu kind of likes), and even deal with a bit of friendly eldritch evil rivalry with Nyarlathotep.<\/p>\n<p>The battle system is the classic turn-based sort with melee attacks, magic spells and skills to aid you in a number of ways. Thankfully, a couple of things set this game apart from the norm.\u00a0 First, each dungeon has a limit to the number of times you\u2019ll face random encounters. If you remember the ancient <em>Final Fantasy<\/em> games you\u2019ll know that is a blessing. There are \u201cunite techniques\u201d that you can use depending upon who is in your party, each with their own special powers. Perhaps the best part is Cthulhu\u2019s ability to drive his foes insane (of course), which causes the enemies to take more damage. Because being crazy hurts, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cthulhu Saves the World<\/em> is a fun and funny trip down Nostalgia Lane in a hotrod built by Lovecraft. And once again; three bucks! If you have access to Xbox Live, consider this game mandatory. It gets an easy eight out of ten phobias.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56fG6fFqubA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56fG6fFqubA&amp;feature=fvwrel\">Cthulhu Saves the World trailer on YouTube<\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This review appeared in The Eye of Light and Darkness in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcdream.com\/zencart\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=2&amp;products_id=41\"><em>The Unspeakable Oath<\/em> 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed items are rated on a scale of one to ten phobias:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1-3:<\/strong> Not worth purchasing.<br \/>\n<strong>4-6:<\/strong> An average item with notable flaws; at 6 it\u2019s worth buying.<br \/>\n<strong>7-10:<\/strong> Degrees of excellence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cthulhu Saves the World Zeboyd Games, $3.00 (zeboyd.com) Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Remember the classic 8-bit RPGs like Final Fantasy, Fantasy Star, and pretty much anything else with \u201cFantasy\u201d in the title?\u00a0 Do you find yourself often wistfully saying,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/06\/cthulhu-saves-the-world-review\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101,61,3,45],"tags":[167,169,168],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8-phobias","category-eye-of-light-and-darkness","category-pastissues","category-tuo-19","tag-cthulhu-saves-the-world","tag-xbox-live","tag-zeboyd-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TUO19-Cthulhu-Saves.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OyM1-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}