History VideoGame / CallOfTheSea

* RiverOfInsanity: The Everhart Expedition. The island seems to amplify a person's personality traits but not always for ill. [[spoiler:Roy becomes dangerously reckless, not considering the flammable properties of the ooze covering the entrance he attempts to blow open. DeWitt, who is not quite sociable, becomes deranged and insane while beginning to transform. Cassandra becomes increasingly unhinged and uncaring, her motives to seek knowledge for its own sake twisting into hunger for a glorious big scoop and then twisting further into seeking eternal life without consideration while becoming increasingly irate with Harry's very presence, even becoming furious from him just breathing or eating.]] Partly subverted in that [[spoiler: Frank only becomes more creative and inventive with his technical ability and remains dedicated to his friendship to Harry, even writing him a letter in preparation of his passing. Teaharoa becomes more cautious and abandons the expedition when its clear the others have become obsessed despite the escalating dangers of going further inland, and Harry, who while becoming more desperate and disheveled from the stress keeps his senses in check, using Cassandra's death to confirm he cannot complete the ritual and sets Norah up to complete the ritual herself while believing he died attempting it himself.]]

* RiverOfInsanity: The Everhart Expedition. Partly subverted in that [[spoiler: two survive sane: Teaharoa, who abandons the expedition, and Harry, who uses Cassandra's death to confirm he cannot complete the ritual and instead sets Norah up to complete the ritual herself.]]

* LovecraftLite: Technically speaking, it's a Literature/CthulhuMythos story, with DwindlingParty, people going mad, grotesque and impossible things experienced by the survivors and what not... but when Norah is visiting the island, it's a very light-hearted experience about [[spoiler: finding your true self and deciding between being that self or being with your beloved ones]]. No cosmic dangers, no monsters, not even any real danger, both to Norah or the world. And as far as she cares, she [[spoiler: has a HappyEnding for herself]], regardless of the final choice.

** In the "Reject" ending, [[spoiler:Norah forgoes returning to her home realm, returning to Harry to spend what time she has left, dying about 12 years later.]]
** In the "Accept" ending, [[spoiler:Norah sheds her human form and returns to her home realm, surviving, while leaving Harry alone for the remainder of his days.]]
* OminousObsidianOoze: One of the game's most recurring elements is an odd black ooze. Touching it drives people to madness. [[spoiler:Unless they come from whatever dimension Norah is from.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Frank got stabbed by crazed [[spoiler: [=DeWitt=]]], but it wasn't anything serious and he kept working for few days as if nothing. [[spoiler: Until the wound got infected and he got so sick, he was unable to walk on his own]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Within short time between attempting a murder of Harry, Cassandra tries to perform the ritual on herself. Since she isn't a HalfHumanHybrid, instead the resulting [[BodyHorror transformation]] kills her]].

* DragonWithAnAgenda: For a wide definition of a Dragon, but still. [[spoiler: Cassandra is initially dedicated to the expedition out of a sense of discovery and thirst for knowledge. However the longer anyone who is not a Deep One, stays on the island, the more their personality traits are amplified and the more mentally unstable they become. After multiple deaths and discovers she remains loyal - or rather feints being loyal - to Harry solely for the sake of turning it all into a big scoop she previously didnt care for while in turn ceasing to care about the actual goal of the expedition. Then it's get upgraded a step further once she figures out the ritual can grant immortality to anyone - including herself. After that point she actively despises Harry and even finds his presence and behaviors infuriating. She eventually tries to kill Harry and performs the ritual on herself]].

* DragonWithAnAgenda: For a wide definition of a Dragon, but still. [[spoiler: Cassandra stays loyal - or rather feints being loyal - to Harry solely for the sake of the big scoop she's working on and never cared about the actual goal of the expedition. Then it's get upgraded a step further, once she figures out the ritual can grant immortality to anyone - including herself. At that point, she tries to kill Harry and performs the ritual on herself]].
* DwindlingParty: The Everhart Expedition suffers from this. [[spoiler: Roy dies from dynamiting a door, Dr. [=DeWitt=] transforms into a Fish Man and disappears, Frank dies from wounds caused by Dr. [=DeWitt=] stabbing him before his transformation, Teaharoa abandons the expedition after bringing the team to the Sanctuary, and Cassandra dies attempting to complete the final ritual to transform into a Deep One.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Norah's side of the ending could be seen as one. [[spoiler: If she chooses to return to Harry, she still gets what she wanted, in that she reunites with her husband, at the cost of an early death. If she chooses to leave Harry, she is not only free from her illness, but fully herself as a Deep One, and in a place she truly belongs.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: It's a Lovecraftian story, creating the obvious expectations of body horror, people going raving mad, dwindling party and maybe some EldritchAbomination for a good measure. It's all there, indeed. [[spoiler: Only that none of this is malevolent, any death resulted from either stupidity, greed or simply bad luck and by the end of the story, Harry is very much alive, with the possibility of Norah being immortal Deep One. Whoever survived till that point is having their version of HappilyEverAfter]].

* GoingForTheBigScoop: Cassandra got herself tangled into the entire expedition solely for the sake of the big headlines she would make with whatever the island might contain. [[spoiler: She eventually gets tempted to try gain immortality instead - and it ends [[BodyHorror badly for her]], before she's ultimately killed by the incompatible ritual]].

* DisasterDominoes: Ultimately leading to a stretched TotalPartyKill. [[spoiler: Roy mishandled dynamite, blowing himself into pieces. The shaft he forcefully opened splattered [=DeWitt=] with the black ooze. As he was turning into a fish man, he went insane and attacked Frank, wounding him, then disappeared into the sea. Once the wound got infected, Frank died from sepsis. Teaharoa, witnessing all of this so far and Harry's obsession with reach the center of the island, decided enough is enough and left the expedition, sailing back home. Cassandra, being left alone with Harry and knowing at this point the ritual can grant immortality, shot Harry with his stolen gun and went to perform the ritual on herself. Once she was dead by incompatibility with the black goo, Harry staged his own death and went back to Tahiti, to send Norah on her quest]]. If [[spoiler: the stuntman]] wasn't so hot-headed or simply knew how to handle explosives, nobody would have died.

* BatmanGambit: Harry's plan. [[spoiler: His entire plan to "save" Norah from her illness hinges on her believing that A. [[CannotTellALie He would never deceive her]] and B. He was dead. That way, she would cleanly let go of him, the only thing standing between her and accepting her true nature as a Deep One.]] It almost worked. [[spoiler: But then Norah realizes that Harry all but said the ritual wouldn't work, and he would never be so foolish to commit to an action he knew wouldn't work.]] Whether the gambit succeeds is depending on [[spoiler: your final choice in the game.]]

''Call of the Sea'' is a First-Person AdventureGame developed by Spanish studio Out of the Blue and published by Creator/RawFury that takes cues from the [[Literature/CthulhuMythos works of Lovecraft]].

The game was made available for Platform/MicrosoftWindows, Platform/XboxOne, and Platform/XboxSeriesX on December 8, 2020, and for Platform/Playstation4 and Platform/Playstation5 on May 11, 2021.

A mystery/puzzle game developed by Spanish studio Out of the Blue and published by Creator/RawFury that takes cues from the [[Literature/CthulhuMythos works of Lovecraft]].

The game was made available for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX on December 8, 2020, and for UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/Playstation5 on May 11, 2021.

* ProductionForeshadowing: [[spoiler:An EasterEgg in Chapter 6 involving the portal configurations gives a teaser of the then-unnamed ''VideoGame/AmericanArcadia]]''.]]

* ProductionForeshadowing: [[spoiler:An EasterEgg in Chapter 6 involving the portal configurations gives a teaser of the then-unnamed American Arcadia.]]

* [[HealthyCountryAir Healthy Tropical Air]]: Norah makes repeated comments on how the fresh air on the island has made her feel much healthier than she had been since taking ill, to the point that she can even jog, whereas before she had to rely on a cane to even walk. [[spoiler: It serves as a hint to Norah's connection to the island.]]

* [[RiverOfInsanity Island of Insanity]]: The Everhart Expedition. Partly subverted in that [[spoiler: two survive sane: Teaharoa, who abandons the expedition, and Harry, who uses Cassandra's death to confirm he cannot complete the ritual and instead sets Norah up to complete the ritual herself.]]

* IllGirl: Norah. Prior to her arrival on the island, her illness had advanced to where she was constantly bedridden, and the days she could move, she had to use a cane. Even on the island, she moves around slowly, with default movement being a walk, and the sprint being only slightly faster. And up until Chapter 5, she constantly wears gloves to cover up the spots on her hands. [[spoiler:Subverted, in that her illness is actually a manifestation of her true form, and what would kill her is refusing to accept or failing to complete her transformation]].

A mystery/puzzle game developed by Spanish studio Out of the Blue and published by Raw Fury that takes cues from the [[Literature/CthulhuMythos works of Lovecraft]].

* FishPeople: [[spoiler:Norah has been turning into one, a process that gets accelerated by contact with the black ooze and which temporarily happens fully when she passes through the portals that start appearing at the end of Chapter 4. Similar "water animals" (as the Naacal called them) were closely associated with the human culture on the island, and it's heavily implied that Norah it becoming one because she is descended form one.]] A secret object found in Chapter 6 implies [[spoiler: she is a [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Deep One]]]].
* ForegoneConclusion: It's a Lovecraftian story, creating the obvious expectations of body horror, people going raving mad, dwindling party and maybe some EldritchAbomination for a good measure. It's all there, indeed. [[spoiler: Only that none of this is malevolent, any death resulted from either stupidity, greed or simply bad luck and by the end of the story, Harry is very much alive, with possibility of Norah being immortal Deep One. Whoever survived till that point is having their version of HappilyEverAfter]].

* IJustWantToBeBadass: Roy, who is a stuntman and a daredevil for hire, clearly thinks he's part of an action movie, or at least behaves the part. [[spoiler: He's first to die, in a ''very'' stupid display of pyrotechnics, starting a DisasterDominoes that get two other people killed (and one of them died almost with Roy anyway)]]

** If Norah's journal [[spoiler: during the dream sequence]] in Chapter 4 is to believed, [[spoiler: Norah is the descendant of a union between a human (her great-grandfather Obadiah Marsh) and a Deep One]].

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Teaharoa, after witnessing what's happening to the rest of the expedition, at certain point simply says "Enough", leaves them an apology and leaves. [[spoiler: When Norah lands on the island, she find he secured the approach with stockade and safely sailed on a self-made va'a, leaving the impression that he's the one who send her the artifact and the photo of Harry]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: A five-note leitmotif is played throughout the game, and is connected to the game by being [[spoiler: what the music box plays]] and [[spoiler: what Norah sings in Chapter 4, allowing her access to the inner sanctum where she learns the truth about her "illness."]] Amusingly, if you play the leitmotif on the mini-piano in Chapter 3, you unlock an achievement, "You Read A Guide For That!"

The year is 1934, and Norah Everhart is about to go on a journey. Her husband, Harry, had organized an expedition to a mysterious region of the South Pacific in hopes of finding a cure for her inherited family illness -- an affliction that has left her with weakness, lesions on her hands, and, if her family history is anything to go on, a shortened lifespan. Now, after months of keeping Norah up to date, Harry has gone missing. But perhaps he still lives, as Norah receives a message to come find him on a nameless island.