My big review (Completed all 1 season parts).

[grihajedy]

4/10
After i completed the suddenly beautiful "House of Ashes" I was filled with great hope and hype for the next part, which, moreover, is the finale of the 1st season of the anthology of horror-games "Dark Pictures", before HOA I was very cold about the first 2 parts of the series, but devs clearly showed me that in the right shell with a rather interesting concept, the formula is working.
But then "The Quarry" happened.. the studio's next game, which was riveted in a little over half a year. This movie no longer belonged to the class B games - Dark Pictures, being an AAA "spiritual successor" of the Playstaion-exclusive Until Dawn for PC users, and the game also turned out to be relatively good. After that, it would be foolish to wait for the third high-quality product released in just 12 months, I was hoping for at least 6/10.. well, because it’s simply physically impossible to make a good interactive movie every half a year. In the end, everything turned out to be even sadder and Supermassive released a new worst project in its portfolio, which not for the better outperformed even "Little Hope", which could still have at least some advantages, and already in a couple of months the studio will release another project in the universe, for Playstation VR 2 - "The Dark Pictures: Switchback", the workers there probably very very crunching.
I don't even know what to say about "DIME", 10-hour sleep even with the company, even for fans of the genre, I can’t advise this game to anyone. The concept of a follower of the real-life maniac Henry Holmes, who built a hotel full of traps, was used as ineptly as possible, everything is limited by moving walls blocking the passage, most of the time you wander around absolutely default rooms, and you will dying either from a maniac knife or from a moving mannequin with knife, no, of course there are rooms of "death", but they are as banal as possible and are not remembered. The characters are also the worst, they don't have charisma or an interesting personality, their plot "branches" are not completed, not to mention the fact that devs are using the same faces from part to part, and earlier in each of their games there was at least 1 little-known, but at least somewhere noticeable actor from films, here, of course, money or imagination was no longer enough. I will also leave out the terrible technical state with a bunch of bugs and backdrops at the level of the Playstation 2, as well as a terribly uncomfortable camera that only starts moving a second after your mouse turns.
But, they added a lot of new mechanics, like now you can run, climb on ledges, in principle, there are more “walkable” locations, now we have an inventory and you can somehow use character`s items, added a simple mini-games, but all these innovations look somehow too primitive, crooked and "alien", it is impossible to lose in them, it would be better if there was nothing new at all than such a micro-, but still a waste of time, it`s also spoiling the impression a bit, by the way, they even made crooked mechanics moving garbage cans, like in The Last of Us). But I'm sure that the creators enjoyed the development, they were testing new features/ideas, but how it will be played by the players.. no one gave them time for such thoughts. Damn.. I remembered, here you also need to collect ebola.. obols, which the narrator does not need, like, for eg. cards in "The Quarry".. they are generally not needed in the game itself, only in the additional section of the menu for them you just can buy some 3d models.

🏆 And the funny thing is that the story doesn’t even have a sane ending, or rather, there no ending at all, but finale - is the most important part of the story, you won’t feel any climax/catharsis, the characters just basically run away, at the end, the devs stupidly 30-seconds cosplay the final fight from "House of Ashes", and that's it, we won't know who was under the mask, or how he teleports, no answers, and I remind you, this part positioned itself as the season 1 finale!! Then, supposedly, there will be games for 2 season and 3 season.. and what does this "seasonal" difference mean, when there was almost no "observer" in this part, he gave only 1 hint and learned to turn into a crow, and also someone at his door knocked 1 time, again there is no connection between the games, and the new part comes out again in a 1 year, it seems, seasons are just packs for sales. Now I will not believe in any next Dark Pictures, although the theme of space sounds conceptually interesting. Bandai namco, give back the passports to the poor workers of this crazy coneyor and give them a break.

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