History VideoGame / RealmsOfTheHaunting

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** In Charles Randall's vicarage, Adam finds a copy of EdgarAllanPoe's "The Pit & the Pendulum".

** While wandering around the Tower, Adam will frequently hear the voices of souls devoired by the Ire, one of them reciting a passage from the Book of Revelation 6:12: "And the moon shall turn as blood and the sun as sackcloth, in the last days."

* Expy: The Eyre is essentially Machin Shin from ''TheWheelOfTime'', a vague, ominous force of evil that roams the waygates between worlds and consumes unwary travelers.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Claude Florentine]] ([[Really700YearsOld much older]] infact), [[spoiler:Rebecca Trevisard]].

* TheComputerShallTauntYou: There's a small platforming section preceding Florentine's observatory. Everytime you fail to jump over the moving platforms, you will hear the disembodied laughter of mocking children.

** The address header of one of the letters which Adam finds in the Study reads: The Delberry, Arkham, Massachusetts. Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by HPLovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

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The original British version of the game (which lacks selectable difficulty) has been available on GOG.com for some time, and was recently released in April 2014 on {{Steam}}.

* MultipleEndings

** Some of the rooms in Charles Randall's vicarage are covered with occult and astronomical symbols.

** The house itself qualifies. Somehow the [[spoiler:sarcophagus in the study]] has a short ladder leading down to a passageway over a *river of clouds* which is roughly where the house entrance should be. Which might well intersect the [[spoiler:Mausoleum behind the bookcase]] but somehow doesn't.

The British version of the game (which lacks selectable difficulty) has been available on GOG.com for some time, and was recently released in April 2014 on {{Steam}}.

The game has been available on GOG.com for some time, and was recently released in April 2014 on {{Steam}}.

''Realms of the Haunting'' is a British adventure game, played from the first-person perspective, released in 1997 by Gremlin Interactive. The 3D engine used in this game was borrowed from Gremlin's own ''VideoGame/{{Normality}}''.

* UnusualUninterestingSight: Adam isn't particularly disturbed when demons suddenly appear out of nowhere and start attacking him. When he first meets Rebecca, he simply remarks "people are trying to kill me"... to describe fighting through dozens of teleporting demons, killer robots, and walking skeletons.

* TooAwesomeToUse: Florentine's Staff which isn't rechargeable unlike most of the other weapons in the game, hence a case of a [[BreakableWeapons Breakable Weapon]] because once you've used up all of its charges, it basically deteriorates into a mere walking stick (or as Rebecca puts it, "you might still get some home-runs with it."). Even when it's attack power is depleted, though, its competence as a device to teleport to certain areas of the house still persists.

** The address header of one of the letters which Adam finds in the Study reads: The Delberry, Arkham, Massachusetts. Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

** In Charles Randall's vicarage, Adam finds a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit & the Pendulum".

** Gaul (which is the German expression for donkey or in a more derogatory sense, an old, incapable horse; notice how in one of the cutscenes Gaul sort of limps which could be a reference to him being the vessel for the Power of Satan should the seventh seal be broken; on the other hand, the name Gaul could also refer to the person from the Roman-era region, there's another entity in the game called the Ire, after all).

* HellIsThatNoise:
** There's a spot in the Mausoleum where you will hear the weeping of an old woman.
** The grammophone in the study qualifies as well.
** Walking over dead rats is acoustically "enhanced", sort of constituting the crunchy equivalent of NailsOnABlackboard.

* ApocalypseCult: Florentine's Temple of the Morning Star.

* KnightTemplar: There's a painting in the mansion, depicting Florentine dressed in common Templar attire.

* MirrorMonster: Literally. One of the trials of Sheol require you to walk around and smash a perimeter of mirrors. If you look directly into them, though, a monster will come right out of it and chase you. The only way to defeat it is to have it reflected in the mirror and then break it.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Claude Florentine]] ([[Really700YearsOld much older]] infact), [[spoiler:Rebecca Trevisard]]

* TooAwesomeToUse: Florentine's Staff which isn't rechargeable unlike most of the other weapons in the game, hence a case of a BreakableWeapon because once you've used up all of its charges, it basically deteriorates into a mere walking stick (or as Rebecca puts it, "you might still get some home-runs with it."). Even when it's attack power is depleted, though, its competence as a device to teleport to certain areas of the house still persists.

* AlwaysNight: As long as you're in Heled anyway. Usually in combination with DramaticThunder.

* TooAwesomeToUse: Florentine's Staff which isn't rechargeable unlike most of the other weapons in the game.