Similarities to some classic Gothic Horror

[gentulf]

Interestingly, a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe’s short novels have titles of the form “The __ of __”, like “The Fall of the House of Usher” or “The Cask of Amontillado”.
In the former there is also a brother and sister character pair, being buried / entombed alive trope (in other stories too, it was popular in the XIX century) is similar to the coffin theme (being stuck in an apartment, out of food, withering away kind of like being entombed).
Even the incest theme is apparently present in "The House...", although I’ve read it and it’s just one vague line… but for Howard Lovecraft it was enough to interpret it like that I guess.

Anyway, I find it cool that the game seems to use (whether intentionally or not) some tropes similar to these.

[Ferry]

For me specially the arstyle sorta reminds me of a Tim Burton movie, stuff like the bride's corpse, just a lot more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up!

[acerbicCatnip]

You know, now that you mention it...
I feel like the writer is pretty clever, so I'm guessing that's intentional on some level.

[水面]

It might just be an association thing, but it sort of reminds me of an old Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The brave, heroic sibling pair overcoming adversity- except that they're a pair of codependent, incestuous psychopaths, and their personalities and actions only become more twisted as a result of the hardships they face. A lot of those stories were dark as hell too, so that could also explain it.

[6FU]

It's definitely intentional. It fits too well to be mere coincidence.

[Dakerone]

It takes so much from the movie Crimson Peak

[Fox Lanza]

I also noticed that, I even made a reference to Allan Poe's black cat story in my game review. Basically that story describes pretty well why Ashley hates and loves Andrew. I'll cite some parts of the book.

Leyley feels love for his brother, who protects her.

"From my infancy I was noted for the docility and
humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was
even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my
companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was
indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With
these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as
when feeding and caressing them."

Leyley feels rejected by the others and develops hate and manipulation.

"...Pluto—this was the cat’s name—was my favorite pet
and playmate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever
I went about the house... Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years,
during which my general temperament and character—
through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance—had
(I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the
worse. I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more
regardless of the feelings of others."

However she still has Andy with her.

"For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient
regard to restrain me from maltreating him."

But she fears to be rejected by him.

"One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one
of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my
presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he
inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth."

And hurts him because of that.

"I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor
beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from
the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the
damnable atrocity."

But she feels terrible inside and tries to treat him right.

"When reason returned with the morning—when I had
slept off the fumes of the night’s debauch—I experienced a
sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of
which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and
equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again
plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory
of the deed."

Ashley hurts Andrew unconsciously because when she felt left behind by the world she couldn't bear to think that the one by her side hated her, and that paranoia makes her such a ♥♥♥♥♥. Andrew is another whole story.
Now where's my poetry award?

[SolidPayne]

German Expressionism is another similarity I've noticed especially with the art design and story telling. Alot of movies of that film movement where more about expressing the main characters' feelings on a subject matter rather than giving you an objective reality. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari being the classic example and we definitely get that with this world. It kinda resembles our world but nobody here acts like a normal person and even the non hellish backgrounds don't look normal

[SolidPayne]

Even the title sounds like a horror story from that time period. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, From Morn to Midnight, Golem: How He Came Into The World, The Student Of Prague, The Hands of Orlac

[segfault (core dumped)]

Originally posted by Fox Lanza:

Ashley hurts Andrew unconsciously because when she felt left behind by the world she couldn't bear to think that the one by her side hated her, and that paranoia makes her such a ♥♥♥♥♥. Andrew is another whole story.
Now where's my poetry award?

You are on this council, but I do not grant you the rank of poet.

[Punished Trump]

Originally posted by SolidPayne:

Even the title sounds like a horror story from that time period. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, From Morn to Midnight, Golem: How He Came Into The World, The Student Of Prague, The Hands of Orlac

And the fact that Andrew has knowledge of classic poetry, maybe because he went to Uni. He seems a very well known guy.

[SolidPayne]

One genre I definitely would NOT associate TCOAAL with is Film Noir. I'm not joking, there's a youtube video out there that talked about TCOAAL describing it as having a "weird noir aesthetic" yeah it's weird alright almost as like it doesn't resemble Noir in any fashion what so ever. I guess you could remake it into one (sorta Oldboy meets Double Indemnity, I guess) but it's so not what they're going for that you'd have to be high to see it

[Mad Cat Lad]

Originally posted by Fox Lanza:

Allan Poe's black cat story

faq for making me read this