Dark, Depressing, and Silly | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Retrospective

It's Halloween time, and while the typical thing to do is look at some spooky games, I'm going down the darker and more somber route with the 1995 adventure game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. Based on the Harlan Ellison short story of the same name, this classic point-and-click game features one of the grimmest and darkest stories I've ever seen in video games, but it also features odd graphical mistakes, goofy glitches, and occasionally poor characterizations and dialogue. So how does this game hold up? Let's find out in my retrospective on I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream #IHaveNoMouthandIMustScream #Cyberdreams #HarlanEllison ---- Subscribe! https://tinyurl.com/y8hebek3 Join the CloudConnection Discord! https://discord.gg/MVSrcGz I stream on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/cloudc0nnection Want to support the show? I'm accepting donations on Patreon and Ko-fi! https://www.patreon.com/cloudconnection https://ko-fi.com/cloud Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/CloudC0nnection ---- TIMECODES 00:00 — INTRO 02:23 — DEVELOPMENT 06:17 — GAMEPLAY 10:18 — AESTHETICS AND PRESENTATION 14:19 — GORRISTER'S STORY 18:29 — ELLEN'S STORY 23:29 — BENNY'S STORY 27:33 — NIMDOK'S STORY 33:01 — TED'S STORY 37:29 — ENDGAME 43:42 — CONCLUSION ---- SOURCES / RECOMMENDED READING: Game Informer: I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream (https://bit.ly/3oL0evp) Bloody Disgusting: ‘I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream’: The Most Disturbing, Nihilistic Video Game of All Time? (https://bit.ly/35Sx7h0) PC Gamer:Saturday Crapshoot: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream The Guardian: Q&A: Harlan Ellison (https://bit.ly/3kL4bxI)