Everyone is coping with the strange situation as best they can. Makeshift docks and bridges have been built to help the residents move around.
Entire roads are underwater, forcing the people who remain to use boats for transportation. Barnacles and seaweed cover the sides of buildings. Rising water separated the city from the mainland six months ago. The city at the heart of the story, Oakmont, Massachusetts, has fallen victim to an unnatural disaster known as The Flood. This is a thing that would have happened in this time period, the game suggests, and commentary isn’t necessary. The Klan itself also plays a part in the narrative, and it’s presented matter-of-factly. The various characters you meet speak about their fear of what’s happening with the creatures that seem to be slowly creeping into the city and living there, and it can be read as slight criticism of Lovecraft’s fear of immigrants and miscegenation. While The Sinking City subverts some of Lovecraft’s racist tropes, like the “horrors” of interracial marriage, it rarely confronts them directly. These prejudices were and still are wrong, but have been included for an authentic depiction of that time, rather than pretend they never existed. Lovecraft, The Sinking City depicts an era in which ethnic, racial, and other minorities were frequently mistreated by society. The Sinking City even acknowledges the problems inherent in Lovecraft’s writings right from the beginning. But don’t worry if this doesn’t mean anything to you a love (or hate) for Lovecraft - or even a passing interest - isn’t required to enjoy the game, though it may help. Storylines from “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” and The Shadow Over Innsmouth appear as major plot points in the first few hours of the game. The game’s opening isn’t subtle about its mood, nor does it try to hide the inspiration taken from H.P. It’s this dream that sets the events of the game in motion. There is a shot of a tooth-lined maw at the bottom of the ocean.
There’s a drowned town, and a gargantuan, otherworldly jellyfish-like creature floating through the sky.
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