They should be small and weak, as insignificant as everyone else in comparison to the alien deities surrounding us.
Players shouldn’t be able to hide from Cthulhu, they shouldn’t be able to whip out a revolver and kill the horrific monstrosities roaming around them.
I’ve always thought it was difficult to really replicate the themes of the cosmic horror Lovecraft put forward in his stories because…well, how do you even approach that in a video game? Most games that deal with Lovecraftian themes give you some means to fight back or hide from the torrent of alien forces just existing in a world that was previously unseen, but that defeats the point. It’s been a heck of a year for Lovecraft games, huh? Given the (relatively) recent growth in the appreciation of that old racist codger’s fiction, I suppose it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that so many different developers are offering up their own takes on the Lovecraftian mythos, and it’s even less of surprise that many of them just don’t quite stick the landing.
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