First and foremost: this is not a game, despite it keeps calling itself that. This is more of a visual novel.
With that out of the way: I understand what it's trying to do but while the more closed environments look wonderful and the narrator does an amazing job, the barren and boring looking open areas and the clunky and limited mouse movement really take away from the experience. Why can't you let me do a 360º turn? There's one room in particular where you can ALMOST do it (and you can, if only because the camera movement script was sloppily written). Furthermore, the creature is a huge disappointment and it would've been best left to interpretation of the player, which I think was kind of the point on the original short story.
I'll be honest, I'm not Lovecraft's biggest fan ("God, that hand! The window! The window!", dude just jump) and I was hoping this would make me more interested in his stories but it ended up disappointing me as an interactive story and reminding me why I stopped reading them.

First and foremost: this is not a game, despite it keeps calling itself that. This is more of a visual novel. With that out of the way: I understand what it's trying to do but while the more closed environments look wonderful and the narrator does an amazing job, the barren and boring looking open areas and the clunky and limited mouse movement really take away from the experience. Why can't you let me do a 360º turn? There's one room in particular where you can ALMOST do it (and you can, if only because the camera movement script was sloppily written). Furthermore, the creature is a huge disappointment and it would've been best left to interpretation of the player, which I think was kind of the point on the original short story. I'll be honest, I'm not Lovecraft's biggest fan ([spoiler]"God, that hand! The window! The window!", dude just jump[/spoiler]) and I was hoping this would make me more interested in his stories but it ended up disappointing me as an interactive story and reminding me why I stopped reading them.