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Not to be confused with the tabletop game ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''. Now available for 9.99 USD on [[Steam]], so no need to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].
Not to be confused with the tabletop game ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]''. Now available for 9.99 USD on [[Steam]], so no need to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].
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=== This video game provides examples of: ===
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Zadok Allen. He has his reasons.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Zadok Allen. He has his reasons.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: You will have a much easier time understanding the plot, if you've read [[HP Lovecraft|H.P. Lovecraft's]] ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Literature)|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' and ''"The Shadow Out of Time."''
* [[All There in the Manual]]: You will have a much easier time understanding the plot, if you've read [[HP Lovecraft|H.P. Lovecraft's]] ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Literature)|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' and ''"The Shadow Out of Time."''
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* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Seeing too much disturbing stuff at once will cause Jack to freak out in a number of different ways. One such way is that he'll start muttering to himself in a panic. What he mutters is in direct context to whatever he's seeing that scares him, be it a ghostly girl, a rotting corpse, or a giant monster made of brown acid.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Seeing too much disturbing stuff at once will cause Jack to freak out in a number of different ways. One such way is that he'll start muttering to himself in a panic. What he mutters is in direct context to whatever he's seeing that scares him, be it a ghostly girl, a rotting corpse, or a giant monster made of brown acid.
** There's a moment where the player needs to unlock a ladder locked on a ceiling by [[Shoot Out the Lock|shooting its lock]]. Doing it under the ladder makes it fall on Jack and badly injury him.
** There's a moment where the player needs to unlock a ladder locked on a ceiling by [[Shoot Out the Lock|shooting its lock]]. Doing it under the ladder makes it fall on Jack and badly injury him.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu]]: Almost literally. {{spoiler|Knocking out Dagon with the main gun of a United States Coast Guard cutter, and electrocuting Hydra to death with a Yithian Lightning Cannon.}}
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Almost literally. {{spoiler|Knocking out Dagon with the main gun of a United States Coast Guard cutter, and electrocuting Hydra to death with a Yithian Lightning Cannon.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Jack, if his [[Sanity Meter]] gets too low.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Jack, if his [[Sanity Meter]] gets too low.
* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]
* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]
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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: How the hero originally ended up in an asylum.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: How the hero originally ended up in an asylum.
* [[Green Around the Gills]]: You may get this while on the navy boat, due to the [[Interface Screw|rolling sea]]. {{spoiler|Also a feature for the Spawn of Dagon, in the literal sense.}}
* [[Green Around the Gills]]: You may get this while on the navy boat, due to the [[Interface Screw|rolling sea]]. {{spoiler|Also a feature for the Spawn of Dagon, in the literal sense.}}
* [[Half Human Hybrid]]: The citizens of Innsmouth, obviously, {{spoiler|and in a metaphysical way, Jack}}.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: The citizens of Innsmouth, obviously, {{spoiler|and in a metaphysical way, Jack}}.
* [[Hell Hotel]]: Jack has to stay in one in Innsmouth. Goes as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swZGSVwmGo&feature=PlayList&p=4BBEACE3E4B5873A&index=11 you might expect].
* [[Hell Hotel]]: Jack has to stay in one in Innsmouth. Goes as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swZGSVwmGo&feature=PlayList&p=4BBEACE3E4B5873A&index=11 you might expect].
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: J. Edgar Hoover.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: J. Edgar Hoover.
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* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] - Used by {{spoiler|J. Edgar Hoover}} on Jack to force him to "cooperate".
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] - Used by {{spoiler|J. Edgar Hoover}} on Jack to force him to "cooperate".
* [[Jerkass]]: Hoover; he's got a mission to clean out Innsmouth and he doesn't care how many people get hurt as long as the job gets done. Of course, you're more expendable than he is...
* [[Jerkass]]: Hoover; he's got a mission to clean out Innsmouth and he doesn't care how many people get hurt as long as the job gets done. Of course, you're more expendable than he is...
* [[Kill Em All]]: {{spoiler|The only non-historical character to survive the events of the game is Agent Mackey. Everyone else, including Jack himself, die horribly at some point.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|The only non-historical character to survive the events of the game is Agent Mackey. Everyone else, including Jack himself, die horribly at some point.}}
** Attempting to kill or letting {{spoiler|Hoover}} die doesn't work either.
** Attempting to kill or letting {{spoiler|Hoover}} die doesn't work either.
** {{spoiler|Jacob Marsh}} is arrested, and Dr. Eric Hardstrom, the doctor at the asylum, survives as well.
** {{spoiler|Jacob Marsh}} is arrested, and Dr. Eric Hardstrom, the doctor at the asylum, survives as well.
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* [[Madwoman in The Attic]]: The {{spoiler|Waite's house.}}
* [[Madwoman in The Attic]]: The {{spoiler|Waite's house.}}
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Some genetic experiment in the Marshes lab asks for this, and you can give it to him with your rifle.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Some genetic experiment in the Marshes lab asks for this, and you can give it to him with your rifle.
* [[Mono Gender Monsters]]: Averted with the Deep Ones once they finally attack in force. About half of them are clearly more feminine than the other half, though still quite ugly and monstrous.
* [[Mono-Gender Monsters]]: Averted with the Deep Ones once they finally attack in force. About half of them are clearly more feminine than the other half, though still quite ugly and monstrous.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: ''Waite''. Anyone who's read Lovecraft's ''The Thing on the Doorstep'' is going to be running twice as fast as everyone else.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: ''Waite''. Anyone who's read Lovecraft's ''The Thing on the Doorstep'' is going to be running twice as fast as everyone else.
** "You ever hear of a thing called a 'shoggoth?'"
** "You ever hear of a thing called a 'shoggoth?'"
* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: Jack investigates the door to {{spoiler|Mrs. Waite's 'room' in the attic, causing 'her' to break down the door and run downstairs to rip her little daughter to shreds. Mr. Waites eventually slits his own throat from grief the day before he's about to be hanged for being framed as his daughter's murderer. Good one, Jack.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Jack investigates the door to {{spoiler|Mrs. Waite's 'room' in the attic, causing 'her' to break down the door and run downstairs to rip her little daughter to shreds. Mr. Waites eventually slits his own throat from grief the day before he's about to be hanged for being framed as his daughter's murderer. Good one, Jack.}}
* [[Non Mammal Mammaries]]: {{spoiler|Hydra, queen and "Mother" of the Deep Ones, has two pairs of breasts. Could be justified, as Deep Ones can interbreed with humans, and therefore must presumably share some genetic material.}}
* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: {{spoiler|Hydra, queen and "Mother" of the Deep Ones, has two pairs of breasts. Could be justified, as Deep Ones can interbreed with humans, and therefore must presumably share some genetic material.}}
** {{spoiler|Some of the standard Deep Ones appear to have them as well.}}
** {{spoiler|Some of the standard Deep Ones appear to have them as well.}}
* [[Obvious Beta]]: Six years in development, and then the studio went bankrupt shortly after the game was released. At least they got ''something'' out there.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: Six years in development, and then the studio went bankrupt shortly after the game was released. At least they got ''something'' out there.
* [[Precision F Strike]]: Upon regaining consciousness in the bottom of a factory, Jack sees the formless brown acidic mass of the dreaded shoggoth flowing into the room and pretty much taking up the entire (very large) area. His response is a whispered, quavering "Oh...''fuck''..."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Upon regaining consciousness in the bottom of a factory, Jack sees the formless brown acidic mass of the dreaded shoggoth flowing into the room and pretty much taking up the entire (very large) area. His response is a whispered, quavering "Oh...''fuck''..."
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Jack is hinted to have these throughout the game, and has [[Shaky POV Cam|visions]] of monsters following him. {{spoiler|It's explained that Jack's father was mind-switched with a Yithian moments before Jack was conceived, giving him a bit of the alien's mind-projection abilities. These are used at the end of the game to take control of Hydra's Deep Ones}}.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Jack is hinted to have these throughout the game, and has [[Shaky POV Cam|visions]] of monsters following him. {{spoiler|It's explained that Jack's father was mind-switched with a Yithian moments before Jack was conceived, giving him a bit of the alien's mind-projection abilities. These are used at the end of the game to take control of Hydra's Deep Ones}}.
** The Deep Ones priests and a few of the cultists also have powers, including Robert Marsh, who has telekinesis, telepathy, the power to shoot energy balls, and some sort of attack that resembles a [[Star Wars|force push]]. Hydra also uses hers to shield Y'ha-nthlei from {{spoiler|an attacking sub}}.
** The Deep Ones priests and a few of the cultists also have powers, including Robert Marsh, who has telekinesis, telepathy, the power to shoot energy balls, and some sort of attack that resembles a [[Star Wars|force push]]. Hydra also uses hers to shield Y'ha-nthlei from {{spoiler|an attacking sub}}.
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** {{spoiler|When the waves start hitting the Urania, Officer Winter calls out for the crew to take cover. The player is the only other person to do so; everyone else on deck is killed. What's more, more crewmen will occasionally spawn and run out to the deck only to die.}}
** {{spoiler|When the waves start hitting the Urania, Officer Winter calls out for the crew to take cover. The player is the only other person to do so; everyone else on deck is killed. What's more, more crewmen will occasionally spawn and run out to the deck only to die.}}
** {{spoiler|The last crewman you see alive on the Urania locks you out on the deck and welds the door shut. You, the one who's fought through countless Deep Ones and the only one with weapons.}}
** {{spoiler|The last crewman you see alive on the Urania locks you out on the deck and welds the door shut. You, the one who's fought through countless Deep Ones and the only one with weapons.}}
* [[Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth]]: {{spoiler|At one point you must recover a hammer from a room containing a Beloved that won't let you in alive. You have to put a special blue flower in its food bucket in order to kill it and access the room.}}
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: {{spoiler|At one point you must recover a hammer from a room containing a Beloved that won't let you in alive. You have to put a special blue flower in its food bucket in order to kill it and access the room.}}
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: The [[Ur Example]], Innsmouth, especially thanks to the aforementioned corruption.
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: The [[Ur Example]], Innsmouth, especially thanks to the aforementioned corruption.
* [[The Unfought]]: Cthulhu. You do ''hear'' his [[Title Drop|calls]], though, and it's easily one of the creepiest moments in the game.
* [[The Unfought]]: Cthulhu. You do ''hear'' his [[Title Drop|calls]], though, and it's easily one of the creepiest moments in the game.
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