Battleangel

Wow. I can’t understand why this game isn’t out yet. According to the latest preview it is slated for release in the spring of 2004. There are a bunch of screenshots also but they are all so dark you can’t see anything. Maybe they aren’t planning on including a gamma setting since it’s a horror title. LOL.

Insanity, of course, is one of the core factors of Lovecraftian fiction. Human minds are fragile, and when they see things with too many legs/eyes/dimensions, they can get a bit brittle, and even crack. If the player beholds any sanity-unbalancing element (be it otherworldly monstrosity or all-too-human danger or cruelty), his mind starts to unravel

I just hope that this game will be well worth it. And not another joke making H P Lovecraft look like a big ass. Suffice to say I’m surprised that virtually no games or movies to date have been able to capture the magic of his works. It’s puzzling really why there are so few exploits and adaptations. Sure, there are a handful of them but few that will be remembered and very few that are actually based on Lovecraft’s works. And no, Necronomicon Digital Pinball doesn’t count!
I remember Prisoner of Ice of course although it was only loosely based on HPL. The same goes for Alone in the Dark. As for movies the only successful project is Re-Animator (1985). The rest are just too low budget or really crappy. If you’re not too picky you could also say that John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness and The Thing are worthy followers of the Lovecraftian tradition. And then there was of course Dagon. But none of these measure up to the master of the macabre.
It’s interesting to compare Lovecraft to someone like P K Dick for example. PKD is getting blockbuster movies based on his novels despite the fact that he’s been dead since 1982 and is virtually unknown outside of his genre. I for one am hoping for a glorious comeback of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. So much to look forward to. So little time.