IT CAME FROM BEYOND THE BARGAIN BIN - CALL OF CTHULHU: DARK CORNERS OF THE EARTH (PC)

Being able to spell or pronounce this title's name is by far the hardest task you'll have throughout the (s)experience, but aside from that, this is a pretty solid survival horror/mystery/thriller type of game. Even though it's heavily story-oriented, you can skip cutscenes and get right down to fucking with hick town fishermen who look almost as scary as a modern day Liz Taylor while talking to yourself and eventually going flat-out fucknuts crazy, which is kind of what people really do on the east coast anyway. The dark mood fits well with the initial mystery-solving aspect, which eventually picks up and in one particular part, becomes a Dragon's Lair-esque chase with lots of suspense and even more restarting from where you keep getting slaughtered. It eventually devolves into piss-poor stealth and FPS elements, but I've made the same kind of complaints with Super Metroid's last stretch, and what this game does well, it does better than I've seen implemented in a long, long time. It's everything that the very overrated Resident Evil franchise should have been in the first place. Had OJ blamed Call of Chthludffululu for his recent burglary, maybe he would have been 2 for 2 in the "Most Acquittals for Cutting Wife's Head Off Then Stealing Things With Guns" award, something far more prestigious than being good at PC games.

Special thanks to Karly for steering me in its direction.