The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope | Review in 3 Minutes
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Will Cruz reviews The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, developed by Supermassive Games.
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Might give it a shot, then. The last one was _The Dark Pictures Anthology: Fairly Decent Ideas Poorly Exectued._ I liked the overall idea, though.
I really enjoyed it. Just a nice linear enjoyment. Play with headphones..
I thought it was _The Dark Pictures Anthology: Bellends Go Surfing_
I just love the
"MAREH!"
I am really loving this 3min series keep up the good work team
I'm halfway in and enjoying it very much. These games are essentially higher budget Tell-tale games and I'm happy with that.
I enjoyed it until the end. Very big let down for me and a bunch of people...
I think the writing and characters were better in most Telltale games
@@problematicgoose I agree I was disappointed, but at least it made things make sense in a way.
pfft
you wouldnt know high-budget if it hit u, babedoll!
I like that the choices in the game can potentially change things, instead of Telltale's classic illusion of choice that makes literally no difference to the story direction. I didn't steal from the car in Walking Dead season 1, why would the game still end with Chapter 5 the way it did.
[spoilers below]
Having enjoyed both these games with my gf, I've been a little disappointed that the Dark Pictures Anthology doesn't have _anything_ supernatural in it, so far. Horror stories with real-world explanations can be really good, but the games go out of their way to convince you there IS something ghostly happening, only to pull a switcheroo at the end which just ends up feeling disappointing.
Little Hope has this problem too, but there's still a lot to like about it. The 'ghosts' were exceptionally well done, they have a great presence and are very memorable. The graphics and 'cinematography' are top-tier. The writing is ... serviceable to poor, but the overall experience was well worth it, in my opinion.
Yeah, got a little ways in and I was excited for all the obviously supernatural stuff that was happening. I thought there was no way it could be explained away, but then the end happened.
I'd like to see one at least where there isn't a switcheroo. All 3 games have had the seeming threat swapped out.
Give me a full length game like Until Dawn but the slasher is actually the villain
Very solid, concise, spoiler-free review. Thank you.
thanks for the review !!
Couldn't agree more on your review. I feel that supermassive games are the only company that actually have consequences for your actions. Often compared with telltale where your actions make little difference to the final outcomes.
Problem is there are no consequences for your actions in Little Hope save for two choices. The quick time events, dialogue options, exploration, and character interactions will mean nothing by the end. All you have to do is make the right choice at the end of the game and you will get the happy ending regardless of how many wrong decisions you made during the last five hours. That's flat out criminal.
I don't know I just can't get into games like this but I do like to watch let's plays of people who do so I'll just probably do that
Is it a direct sequel? Is there a need to play the previous one?
Nope! You can dive in with no strings attached.
All of the games in The Dark Pictures Anthology are completely separate stories.
The intro for my 3 second review reads "You control Movie Watcher, pretending he's playing a game", full stop, credits roll. And holy Uncanny Valley! On a less flippant side: this is your best review yet, Will, I might have a different opinion, but strong presentation. Keep'em coming.
"your choices can play against their stereotypes" Sounds just like what got me invested in Until Dawn, haha. you can force them to have a character arc
too bad the ending throws everything out the window. you liked these characters besides main boy? hmmm you could... or we could just do what we did so everything seems quite pointless
So I'll go ahead and say buy the game, it's better than man of Medan. HOWEVER you need to know there is now a character trait system. If you do too many decisions in one direction, witty, aggressive, heroic etc... Then that trait will become locked. Every locked trait increases the QTE timer or will just outright kill them. So you can't just play each character as they are initially portrayed. You have to keep them rounded in their traits if you want them to live.
Loved 90% of the game, 5% near the end of the game is unfair, last 5% for the ending was pretty good.
Such a good review could only have been made in the Boroughs! Great job, Will!
Lol I love this! Thanks Tommy.
Will there be a sequel?
Yes. The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, is planned for release in 2021.
No.
This is part of the dark pictures anthology, which is a collection of standalone stories.
So this is a self contained game/experience.
There'll be a next entry in the dark pictures anthology, but with almost zero connection to this or previous entries.
@@dsfsebo7988 Yes, what he said. I mistakenly assumed it was known these were standalones.
@@dsfsebo7988 Aside from the narrator guy
I'm glad this series has it's fans, because the games are rather fun to dissect.
As for this game, I'd like to note that it took great courage on the writers part to take the most criticized aspect of their previous game and combine it with one of the most hated narrative tropes out there.
I'd definitely like to see if they triple down in the final part of the trilogy,
There are 8 stories. It is a anthology.
@@buddah1978egypt Oh I'm simply repeating the observation that at this rate The Dark Pictures are unlikely to be developed beyond the third instalment,
@@GeorgeNoiseless fair enough. I really enjoy these. You also pay for a full game without the need for microtransactions. Great fun in online co-op which is a unfortunate dying trend.
At this point they are basically "Telltale 2.0"
In a good way.
But with worse writing and more bugs
@@gregorycomey Ending was clever. I work in mental health and they captured it well. I had no bugs either
Beware the vibe check
Huh. Am I going to enjoy it, as a person who generally dislikes horror games?
There are a few jumpscares here and there. If you can handle that and mostly like what you see here, chances are this is worth your time.
@Crest - BarcrestPlayers Why do you think it's awful?
@@WillCBlogs Did you by any chance play the coop mode?
@@EyalItsik For the review I focused on solo. I did have family play local co-op for an hour or so on Halloween. They enjoyed it.
@@WillCBlogs Oh, I didn't even notice who answered me! :)
The problem for me is that if I'll ever play any more horror games, I want to do it coop. Too much of a coward. :p
And then a complete polar opposite from Zero Punctuation
I watched a full play through and still want to play it myself just because every play through is different enough that it doesn't really spoil the experience
doctor: “you have 3 minutes and 10 seconds left to live”
me:
SNEEDS FEED AND SEED
I love this game!!
hold up. I thought Little Hope was the 3rd game in the series, following Man of Medan and Until Dawn.
Nah until dawn was its own thing
Until dawn is not canon to this story it was made by the same company but not in the same story
Didn't mention how the ending sucks
Also didn't mention how the entire game sucked donkey balls
exactly this. the ending literally ruins the entire game for A LOT of people
This is not the second game, this is like the 4th. Until dawn, hidden agenda, man of Medan, and little hope. It was with until dawn that they decided on an anthology
So it's the second game since they started the anthology. You know we're saying the same thing, right?
1st
it sucked
If you can look passed the biggest plot hole of a little girls opinion mattering in supposed 17th century then yeah, it's a strong story. Lolol.
Have you not read the crucible? A group of little girls got half a town burned at the stake as witches lmao
After just watching Rimmy's 30 minute video on how terrible this game is this review is honestly nuts, probably wont be too trusting of their reviews in the future. The game is a mess.
I watched a playthrough of this game and thought it was pretty good. Why exactly is it supposed to be terrible?
@@cyte112 Because the plot and the characters make no sense. They take actions that make no sense and don't even act like real people. The ending twist is also a very unwelcome cliché. The animation is also not the best in places making it so you have no idea what is happening.
There is also not much of a game to play.
@@rickvrieling I liked the plot (until the end), it was very mysterious.
The character actions are mainly chosen by you...without an example I can't agree that they don't make sense, and the character personalities seemed real enough , much more like Until Dawn than Man of Medan.
Never noticed an animation issue, and I was never confused what was happening on-screen.
Saying 'there is also not much of a game to play' just means you don't like this type of game (interactive narrative).
Yeah, this game great to watch a stream of because it's like a garbage movie you can make fun of together. The writing is so bad. Seeing it taken so seriously in a review is strange.
@@AriaLaurel I was really into it. The multiple endings was meh but I enjoyed my time with it. Writing in anything horror related are trash, so this was a big step up in comparison.
Bad game