Call of the Elders

You start the game as a human joking with friends trying to "summon" Cthulhu, and succeed. In doing so one of the girls dies to give the smallest form of Cthulhu, and your soul is half destroyed, and a "cliche" "your now this powerful hero" kind of story arc starts. The only problem is...after your "I'm part mythos" thing happens, your about 1% stronger, and your already a scrawny college kid as it is.

Your journey starts with you running around town, trying to get everyone to listen, or call police, or somehow show people. This of course just alienates  you from your small town, and everyone you know.

As time goes on you meet someone who believes you, a girl you have liked since a young age (cliche, blah blah blah. Sometimes cliche means it works). She has always been into the occult, and took Lovecraftian fiction as real when she was younger. She shows you a sort of "power" by waving her hand over a scar on your arm, one left over from when your dad tripped over you as a kid and you scarred it on a sharp corner in the living room), and it heals, disappearing from your skin withing 30 seconds (its a small scar, but we want her to be human, thus weak in these powers).

Over time you two team up, knowing only you two can stop Cthulhu and save the world. ...except now not only Cthulhu is out, and all your friend's bodies are taken by Lovecraftain demons :D

The first 2 bosses are just that, bosses. Nothing special, just another DMC/GoW/Infamous romp. ...Then you get to Cthulu, a weakened blob, forming its shape slowly (life would not be enough for the mighty Cthulhu! He needs more to enter himself into this plane of existence). You attack of course, thinking his almost formless state would make him easy...but your attacks are being absorbed, not doing...nothing...but making him grow... after about 4:30-5 min Cthulhu is gaining a form, and an arm comes out. Players mind at this point thinks " Okay, now i can shoot physical things, instead of plasma"....nope, player dies quickly.

Scenes play out with the 2 friends who were taken by the first 2 bosses, turns out you murdered your own friends. but a helpful old lady come into the room where your laying. "I saved your life, but was it worth it? Look at me now...This is what you did to me." She goes on to explain she was your friend who was healing you before. To heal you, she needed to give up life force.

The game goes on for about 6 more boss fights, and you finally meet Cthulu again, this time in full mass. Feeling helpless, you remember your friend waiting for you to return with his blood, blood that can give her back what you took from her.

As the battle starts, and Cthulhu's health bar fills up 6 times over (the last boss had a single full health bar, while the bosses before had bars not 100% full to show they didn't have time to feed,and grow.) You as a player feel helpless. "6 health bars? but I could barely handle the last guy's 1 bar.."

And the player is right, you cant beat him. After getting through 4 bars(this takes at least 10 min per health bar, if your a good player), and finally feeling powerful enough to take down this monstrosity, a cut scene happens where his arm comes sweeping at you, and you try to jump out of the way (not a QTE, just cut scene), and it his arms clip your leg, sending you flying towards a building, out of control.

You wake up to see 1 of 3 things. A hand smashing down on you, causing the bad ending.  The girl with her hands held up, blocking the giant arm from smashing you, and her absorbing the life from Cthulhu until she is back to normal, in which she heals you to half health, and you start to fight as partners....except she does so much more damage than you that the fight ends up as a joke, as she is several times stronger than the player( no matter how maxed out his skills are), and she sends Cthulu back to whence he came using a spell. This is the good ending. Your weak and powerless, and it is shown just how stupid it was to fight this thing.

For those players that want to play again, there is a new game + option. You keep all your costumes you have collected, all your powers and such. Enemies are only about 25% stronger than the first time you fought them, and thus even the boss fights are trivial until the last few fights in the game.

Cthulhu is finally up to fight again, and now you do....just about the same damage to him...Barely anything per attack. Its more than the first time..but your not hurting this guy much. Same endings for NG+, but if you have 100% the collectible Necrocomicon pages, you can seal him yourself. Only by sealing yourself does NG++ come up.(otherwise its another new game +) This is hard mode. Everything has more than one health bar (though its still not to hard, as you have 2 or more play sessions of skill gathering in the character,but its still a darksouls' level difficulty this time around) and you gain more "exp" per fight.

In NG++ there is 1 more page of the Necrocomicon that can be collected. The page on summoning Cthulu that you used at the start of the game. Collecting this page lets you finally take on Cthulhu in a real boss fight. When he swings his arm to start that scene, you dont jump. You stick out your arm, a glowing FMA(just using for reference here) style circle is extended from your hand, and you block his attack. More cut scenes pay, and the girl is seen standing at the end of a block, watching your fight, slowly chanting, and pulling a small amount of power from the monster, reversing in "age" slowly. Around her 40-50's in looks, we switch back to the main hero, grabbing one of Cthulhu's fingers, and ripping it off, causing a howling from it.The fight proceeds from there, and now your abilities are in "white mode". They all have a circle preceding them, and do an actual amount of damage to Cthulhu. This fight, you can win.

In this ending, you seal Cthulhu yourself, and in doing so you find a page of the Necrocomicon, one about bringing lost souls back from the dead. The hero gets a grin on his face as he walks up to the now rejuvenated girl. "So, think I'll have to fight him again to get my friends back?"