Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - Explained

Hello everyone, and welcome to a video where we look at a game from 2005. This is the story from Headfirst Studio's Cthulhu Mythos game, Dark Corners of the Earth. Based loosely on HP Lovecraft's Novella 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', and the Tapletop Game 'Escape From Innsmouth', this game was rich with Cthlhu mythos, and Lovecraftian Lore.

CHAPTERS:

Intro - 0:00
Prologue - 1:10
Innsmouth - 4:37
Marsh Refinery - 22:58
Order of Dagon - 26:19
SS Cutter Urania - 28:38
City of the Deep Ones - 30:27
Ending Explained - 34:15

ALL MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO FROM @epidemicsound
ALL GAME FOOTAGE CAPTURED BY MYSELF ON PC (GOG)

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PC Specs (for those that are interested):
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (8 Core)
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[SamuraiMujuru]

Minor correction: Cthulhu is not an Elder Thing. Elder Things are the creatures that lives at the south pole and created shoggoths (see At the Mountains of Madness)

[benjaminaltube]

Bro flipped so hard at the start he was sent to the Batman universe

[callummcgilvray]

Damn Harry, i never thought id see you cover this! Flawed but underrated gem

[BestCupid]

My personal headcannon is with Jack dying he actually jumped back to the Yithian body and the main reasoning was due to his current human body was too psychological/physically damaged from dealing with everything in Innsmouth. Tbh wish we couldve actually witnessed what happens next with this story since even as jank the game is, the story was interesting as hell

[Kvakva]

The part with the "mother" locked up always pissed me off. Jack should not been THAT DAFT

Fun story I have with this game, for years my family didn't have the money to update our computer to make it run properly. It took a long time until we (my brother, two friends and myself), could play the game. And then we found out about the infamous crash that the game had at the end.

Years later we got the extended ending, it took like some "serious gaming mode", playing like 3 days straight, swapping keyboard between friends until we got the ending.

I really would have like a sequel for the game. But it just wasn't meant to be.

[omadalosso]

Loved your videos! Awesome to see that you are going back to these relatively "old" games

[jamespaul]

The chase sequence in the hotel was heart pounding. Great ending too

[neurohack]

Lots of memories of this game. I got it the day it came out, saved up money for it in high school. The part where you’re picked up from the sea onto a ship? There was a game breaking bug that would freeze the game after a certain doorway. Somebody on GameFAQs figured out if you walked *backwards* through the area that you could continue to play and skip the bug.

[Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

The mind swapping thing at the end is from another novella called "The Shadow Out of Time" and it's even crazier there - they swap places not only through space, but through time as well, to collect knowledge from every race and every era

[julij]

Fun fact: the madman in the jail next to Burnham is actually Henry, the police officer we meet in the beginning of the game.

[ryanedwards]

I bought this game the day it came out. It was absolutely fantastic.

[just_ellie_]

You made my day by covering this old gem. To this day it's one of the best if not the best Cthulhu games out there in my humble opinion (which is probably heavily influenced by nostalgia that I have for this game).

[nintendhole]

There are so many names, places, events and characters from so many actual Lovecraft stories in this! It's like some creepy amalgamation of a lot of his more popular stories and entries. This game seems very cool I'd love to play this!

[hotpeppermovie]

Man I LOVED this game back then when Robbaz played it. Happy to see you cover this game!

[indyman_]

I read through the works of Lovecraft for the very first time quite recently and enjoyed most of them. "The Shadow over Innsmouth" was one of my favs. The atmosphere of the city, the eeriness, the people, the vibe, everything was so well written.

Really surprised that the game stuck to the original works in many ways ("betwixt", "the Innsmouth look", the hotel sequence, arriving by the bus, Zadok Allen, etc.). And as always, Harry is on point to decode the whole thing pretty nicely.

[mister]

Can you do the sinking city, id love to see you do that game in your style of explanation. great video, great series, love your work

[atherasia]

Glad to see creators starts make fun of their own obligatory alert signs. That's a sign of a channel growing.

[jaewoowestside]

Awesome video, would love you to explain the game "fear and hunger"

[Thready_Kruller]

This video is a one for all time. Kudos are in order for this one. Very entertaining and insightful.