Lovecraft’s creations were extra dimensional beings of near infinite intelligence… they were so far beyond anything experienced in our own dimension that Lovecraft often left their description to the readers imagination having fueled their imaginings with his excellent dark prose… excellent prose that is when he wasn’t just adding language to the story to up his pay (he got paid by the word).Ĭould their be some such entity behind the viral mutation… sure… but the game has provided absolutely zero substrate for such a direction… In any case, Phoenix Point is not set in the Lovecraft universe, rather a universe where his life’s work has a terrifying explanation… Which is, by the way, genuine Lovecraft… this mixing of real and fictitious elements until the reader is not sure which ones are which.Īnd yes, there are problems with maintaining the Lovecraftian horror theme with the currently existing balance issues… Then, IIRC, there was a story where Dagon got rammed by a ship But then there were the contemporary worshippers of the Ancients that sometimes accomplished some sort of transformation to resemble them (Shadows over Innsmouth? ) and they would be more or less humanoid. One was indeed the Ancients, as in the Mountains of Madness, that were huge.
However, I recall there were several themes in Lovecraft. I read Lovecraft quite some time ago and I can’t claim to have a perfect memory of it… And then I played the Fantasy Flight boardgames, which probably took some (necessary) license with the content, so I might well be mixing things up even more…
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