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3yr Mike Arrani
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Prisoner of Ice Bangumi
other title: 南极冰怪 / 克苏鲁传说:南极冰怪 …
genre: AVG platform: MS-DOS / Windows / macOS / SS / PlayStation
Prisoner of Ice (also Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice) is an adventure game developed and released by Infogrames for the PC and Macintosh computers in 1995 in America and Europe. It is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, particularly At the Mountains of Madness, and is a follow-up to Infogrames' earlier Shadow of the Comet. In 1997, the game was ported to the Sega Saturn and PlayStation exclusively in Japan.

stopped playing Prisoner of Ice 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
An exercise in frustration. One of those games where you have to hover over every pixel on the screen to find items, and then click everything with that item to figure out what to do. It is impossible to understand what the game wants you to do without some sort of clairvoyant abilities. Sometimes you talk to a person and it yields no results, so you don't try it again, but turns out the second time you talk to them it does. This kinda logic makes you get stuck on every little plot development until you've exhausted all the possibilities. It's the needle in a haystack game design.

And, as a Lovecraftian horror game, it has no atmosphere, mystique or suspense. The tone is more befitting an action movie than a work of cosmic horror. And they show you aliens in the very beginning, thus destroying the horror element. It's like this game was directed by Stuart Gordon, although even he managed to retain SOME horror in his movies.

Mike Arrani
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NeoDB keeps pulling my bio from Bluesky because I use the Bluesky profile to log into it. So I have to address it here:I mainly use NeoDB for games. I don't use Bluesky much for anything.

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