Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace

Good story line, a little short. Overall I like the game play and found it fun.

I wish I could say I'd got into the gameplay and story and stuff, but I didn't. I only played the first environment - and bounced off it hard. And it's all because of the visuals. Everything is dark and muddy, making it difficult to see anything - and worse, the camera is locked to a high angle that limits your view to just a few metres ahead. The game could be great. I have no idea. As a keen Call of Cthulhu player, I really wanted to like this - but I also like to see where I'm going.

Ich finde das Spiel wirklich gut. Das Spiel ist nicht besonders schwer und ein netter Zeitvertreib. Über den Wiederspielwert lässt sich streiten. Ich persönlich habe das Spiel direkt zwei Mal nacheinander durchgespielt und hatte beide Male viel Spaß dabei. Ich hatte keinerlei Performanceprobleme und auch keine anderen Bugs. Besonders gefällt mir die volle Synchronisation des Spiels. Ich persönlich finde auch, dass es eigentlich besser ist, nicht ZU viele verschiedene Gegenstände im Spiel zu haben, da das schnell unübersichtlich werden könnte. Fazit: Ich würde das Spiel für jeden Lovecraft-Fan empfehlen, auch wenn es nicht das Brettspiel „Arkam Horror“ abbildet.

The game play might be a little slow by today's standards, but it's an enjoyable Lovecraftian mystery with some twists and turns.

I really wanted to like this game. It has a decent start, made you feel like you were going to have to scramble for resources and really plan it out. Throughout the game though, I mainly just shot whatever I could and clicked on anything that had a dot on it to indicate that I could search it. The combat never felt very challenging though when it did it felt almost unfair. Story kept me engaged for the first half and completely lost my interest by the end. The plot twist was pretty predictable part way through in the end of the boss lady left me feeling like I didn't beat an entire game. It is pretty, in a weird way. It does have a lot of soul in the idea and art, but it just didn't deliver. I don't regret playing through the whole thing though because I was curious about the tabletop game this is related to.

I had fun playing Arkham Horror. It pretty basic as far as RPGs go but I didn't think it had anything that particularly soured my experience (except for one boss fight that was insanely difficult). Are there better games out there, yes. But honestly I still give this one a chance if you have the time for it. It only took me 9 hours for one playthrough.

I'm an avid reader of Lovecraft, and a player of Fantasy Flight's "Mansions of Madness" and Arkham Horror LCG, so I'm very much the target audience for this video game. This is largely an on-rails story engine interspersed with turn-based combat, and it's great fun. Progression through each leve requires you to walk through the environment, clicking on highlighted objects. Through this, you gain clues about the story, unlock side quests, and gather useful items. Sometimes you stumble into a monster and have to fight. As you play, you collect different investigators willing to help you out. Your party size maxes out at 3, but you get more investigators than that, so you get to choose which investigators you want to bring along for each chapter. There's a roguelike-like element to this, because sometimes you don't know which investigators are best until you've played through at least part of a chapter, so you can return to the Office, re-spec your party, and start the chapter over. Your Office also serves as storage. You have limited carrying capacity, so you have to choose what gear you bring along. There are items that provide buffs, there are weapons, bandages, and spell books. You'll want to take them all, but then you'll find stuff during the chapter and won't have room to carry it. There are lots of tough choices throughout. Still, the game is very much a [mostly] linear story. It's the farthest thing from an open world game you can get, and it only lasts 20 hours, but these are its virtues. This game plays a little like a tabletop game, in a way: You can take your time taking in and processing the environment and the story, and occasionally you get the adrenaline rush of combat. You can pretty much always see the end in site, because there are only 9 chapters. It's one of those relaxing horror stories you can get through in a week (or even a weekend if you've got all day). Low on commitment but highly addictive. I don't want all games to be like this, but I do wish there were more like this.