The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me

wonderful game

a little worse than house of ashes and a little better than little hope

and it’s a well-deserved ten, but if you’re just starting to play TDPA, be sure to start with the first part, then you’ll feel the development of the series and be able to fully enjoy this series of games :)

Supermassive outdid themselves by burying the season one finale of their anthology in a pile of technical dross and outright scripted impotence. Instead of an interactive movie, they got a dreary loader simulator where you spend most of the game dragging boxes in pitch darkness, crawling through vents, and pixel-hunting, trying to see anything through a buggy flashlight that persistently shines into the backs of the characters' heads. Brilliant new mechanics like the tie-clip inventory and collecting useless coins to unlock figurines in the menu are created solely to artificially prolong this stifling misunderstanding. The characters are irritating with their clinical stupidity and complete lack of self-preservation instinct: while the partners teleport off-screen and get stuck in T-poses,… Read full