The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

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  1. hellequin41
    Nov 5, 2020
    0
    Game was fine up till the end the ending is god awful just like man of medan make the supernatural part of the game like untill dawn
  2. AllNewSuperfake
    Dec 1, 2020
    2
    I have yet to see a single "movie" game that uses the medium in a way that made it a better experience. It's obvious that you would need a good movie to start with, and that's where almost all of these games fail.

    Also, for some reason, too many people seem to think that horror would be an easy genre and that you need neither experience nor resources nor talent even though we've seen    I have yet to see a single "movie" game that uses the medium in a way that made it a better experience. It's obvious that you would need a good movie to start with, and that's where almost all of these games fail.

    Also, for some reason, too many people seem to think that horror would be an easy genre and that you need neither experience nor resources nor talent even though we've seen decades of evidence to the opposite. It's not like brilliance can't be achieved, but it needs masterclass acting, direction and writing. There isn't a facial expression, a camera angle, a sound or an effect that isn't important, and that is why it is a daring choice for an interactive experience that changes the plot.

    Why? In short: You don't just have to make ONE good movie, you actually have to make SEVERAL good ones.

    +10

    -1 "Little hope" does not even have that one good movie. The ghost-town setting has seen great games and movies alike, and none of them played out in what feels like a linear tunnel through a collection of random buildings, following a plot that tries to plaster an element of confusion over everything, a little amnesia here, a little silent hill over there, and the most lazy conclusion you can think of at the end.

    -1 It's technically unimpressive with subpar effects that are just plain bad when it comes to bringing it's actors to life. It's hard to say if the faces are badly scanned or the animations are botched, but there's something just that little bit off in every movement and every expression that delivers way more horror than the actual game. It doesn't do itself any favors by starting out in darkness, since the used engine muddles shadows and colors alike - I have no idea how this wasn't the first thing that got an overhaul since it already dragged down the predecessor. It's like playing one of those HD-remastered PS2 games at some points.

    -2 The control scheme got even worse than in the predecessor, and the "hints" break the atmosphere even more. That's borderline impressive because both were already terrible. it's takes away even the smallest hint of a challenge and destroys any immersion at the same time. The worst part is the implementation of scripted jump scares that are foreshadowed by a sudden change of the camera perspective where your characters won't move in any direction until you've seen that jump scare. It would make for a great satire of the genre, but I'm afraid they were serious about this.

    -2 points points for, once again, using the oh so mysterious, oh so victorian narrator to break the pacing the minute it gets interesting only to mumble for long unskippable minutes about nothing in particular so that the helpless viewer is reminded of the fact that whoever made this game not only has no idea how to make a good movie, but also has a terrible taste in TV.

    -2 That wouldn't be a problem if "Little Hope" would excel in anything, but the writing is sloppy, uninspired and so filled with logical fallacies, direction errors and goofs that the only emotion it made me feel was not fear, but anger. I am supposed to believe that character development is, once again, one of the things that I can actually influence, but since everyone is acting out unresolved issues from the past and impulses whenever they need to do something stupid to advance the plot, this isn't even funny anymore.

    It's a waste of time, and you can't even have some good popcorn while wasting it. There isn't a theme, motivation or twist that hasn't been overdone 20 years ago. It failed to get me invested, excited, pensive or at the very least offended. It didn't even try to be good and failed at being mediocre.

    It's a waste of all the talent and hard work involved, which pains me everytime. It wouldn't have to be. There are good horror movies out there; a good horror-movie game should not be impossible. Try, try again.    … Expand
  3. ScienceAdvisor
    Dec 2, 2020
    1
    One of the worst subversion of expectation endings in anything I have ever seen. Up to that point it was a very linear, boring, walking simulator with brief moments of control that all turn out to be pointless. Many of the supposed decision can be ignored during QTE fight/flight and the game will still hand you a success. Many of the supposed branches still end in the same decision.One of the worst subversion of expectation endings in anything I have ever seen. Up to that point it was a very linear, boring, walking simulator with brief moments of control that all turn out to be pointless. Many of the supposed decision can be ignored during QTE fight/flight and the game will still hand you a success. Many of the supposed branches still end in the same decision. This is a terrible script for a made for tv movie that was turned into a game instead. Too bad they forgot the gameplay, or even basic controls that work.… Expand
  4. NoSaved
    Dec 31, 2021
    0
    **** ending, how could the first game of the company (Until Dawn) still be the best they can make?
  5. freedomfighter_
    Nov 5, 2020
    2
    If this is supposed to be actual horror game then it failed miserably. Just no.
  6. Heraldozka
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    Completamente bugado, até meu 80% do jogo tava muito daora até eu encontrar 300 bugs e ficar preso nele por basicamente 3 horas, se você joga no teclado não pegue esse jogo, não vale o tempo nem dinheiro algum, a não ser que você consiga pesquisar se eles resolveraam todos os bugs, o jogo vem num modo tosco de clicar que é até ok tem seu charme, mas na hora das ações simplesmente umaCompletamente bugado, até meu 80% do jogo tava muito daora até eu encontrar 300 bugs e ficar preso nele por basicamente 3 horas, se você joga no teclado não pegue esse jogo, não vale o tempo nem dinheiro algum, a não ser que você consiga pesquisar se eles resolveraam todos os bugs, o jogo vem num modo tosco de clicar que é até ok tem seu charme, mas na hora das ações simplesmente uma criança faria um sistema melhor, aparece algo rapido demais na sua tela e você não sabe onde tá o mouse e tem que acertar, enquanto no controle você simplesmente tem que acertar um botão, como é na versão teclado do jogo que não vem apesar de ser o melhor, culpa do game, 80% do jogo eu perdi um personagem pelo erro deles e voltei no save com o modo teclado, acertei como se fosse piaada, porque basiucamente é o mesmo sistema do controle, um botão durante um tempo, nãao acertar um mouse num alvo em menos de um segundo sem saber onde ele está como se você fosse o melhor jogador do mundo, sinceramente é mais sorte acertar aquilo do que qualquer coisa, mal feito, eventualmente você vai errar porque é tosco, mas enfim, se você perde um personagem realmente enfrenta um problema pelo erro deles você vai procurar como trocar, porque como o jogo veio naquilo impossível eu pensar que uma melhor opção totalmente, tá escondida e não veio por padrão, mas não só isso, como depois que você coloca em teclado não consegue realizar escolhas porque o mouse não sai do canto superior esquerdo da tela, você tem que ir no menu toda vez qeu tiver uma escolha pra trocar pra clicar novamente pra poder ter o mouse e escolher, saudável eu diria, realmente vale dinheiro, não só isso como, tem um bug na mesma parte que eu tinha perdido um personagem, você não consegue clicar em um alvo com um mouse a menos que se esforce muito, meu mousepad é enorme eu tenho que passar meu mouse 3 vezes completo num mousepad enorme com um mouse de 1800 dpi pra conseguir acertar o alvo faltando 1 milesimo, enquanto literalmente todos os outros alvos do jogo estavam em sensibiblidade normal, e nada muda isso, não adianta trocar pra clicar nem nada, essa parte simplesmente acaba com a sensibbilidade do mouse e ´´e a beira do impossível eu fiquei literalmente 2 horas pra passar dessa parte pelo erro deles, é isso, se você quiser jogar ainda depois disso no pc sem saber se arrumaram, não pode reclamar se tiver esse problema.… Expand
  7. HymGreen
    Nov 4, 2020
    0
    спасибо, в отличии от "медана" это игра не удалась полностью начиная абсурдностью диалогов заканчивая грандиозным финалом. ждал игру после прохождения медана, больше не жду игр от ваших студий пожалуйста не выпускайте 3 частьспасибо, в отличии от "медана" это игра не удалась полностью начиная абсурдностью диалогов заканчивая грандиозным финалом. ждал игру после прохождения медана, больше не жду игр от ваших студий пожалуйста не выпускайте 3 часть
  8. Zapp_Brannigan
    Nov 2, 2020
    1
    **** game, **** story "subvert expectations" game of thrones season finale kind of ****
  9. Pepa
    Nov 3, 2020
    0
    An absolute masterpiece. Game of the year for me. Conclusively I love it. Love for Devs
  10. pixelwave
    Nov 6, 2020
    0
    In the series it ranks between Man of Medan and Until Dawn (UD being by far the best). The atmosphere and characters are much better than MoM but the ending / conclusion of the story is a joke. Not related and totally unconvincing ... it could have been a much higher ranking ...
  11. AlexWoods
    Nov 24, 2020
    1
    Well this "Horror" is so damn stupid.
    Idk Maybe kids will like it, but none of the adult category
  12. Egamstdammor
    Nov 6, 2020
    0
    I chose Tailor, and I dosent play over 3 hours, z hate this game, I sit over 3 hours and I doesn't play. Worst game and worst story
  13. amishukov
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    Game is unpayable on ps 4 pro. Always ends up with error. Tried three times. All other games works just fine. The worst part is that you can not skip the cinematics, so we had to wait for half an hour just to see the error message again.
  14. StaIine
    Nov 3, 2020
    2
    Первые же игровые кадры демонстрируют потрясающий идиотизм персонажей-сильные и совершенно безмозглые женщины, совершенно нелогичные диалоги, поступки достойные персонажей психлечебницы или дома престарелых.
  15. devilmuffin
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    a great game that really shows how the human mind can bend the reality just to cope with things can't deal with.
  16. Toumat
    Nov 6, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Концовка убила... Зачем они так закручивали сюжет, чтобы в конце все слить в шизу?… Expand
  17. Mnobody
    Feb 4, 2021
    1
    I loved the game and story. It would have been a solid 9 for me. But the whole point of a "choose your own adventure" is you should get to choose your own adventure! At a certain point, you CANT CHOOSE because retard-designed QTEs get randomly mixed in with no warning or explanation. Youll spend the first 4 hours intuitively hitting "x" when they show x or whatever. Then late in the gameI loved the game and story. It would have been a solid 9 for me. But the whole point of a "choose your own adventure" is you should get to choose your own adventure! At a certain point, you CANT CHOOSE because retard-designed QTEs get randomly mixed in with no warning or explanation. Youll spend the first 4 hours intuitively hitting "x" when they show x or whatever. Then late in the game when your QTE go into instant permadeath, i have cross hairs and a stupid + i have to move around. This is not explained ANYWHERE in game.

    Am i supposed to be drinking retard juice to understand wtf these dumb designers want? After a couple of deaths, I guess they want me to put the + in the crosshairs and don't hit anything til it expires - still nothing good happens. I just watch my characters flair around, get tortured, and killed off one-by-one under an onslaught of "+" crosshair QTEs back to back. Screw me- the other 100 button mashes and team-building exercises didn't mean crap! FK you Bandai for this nonsense psycho garbage and crapping on what should have been a great game. Now i have to watch "good" endings on youtube!.    … Expand
  18. Skydog
    May 20, 2022
    1
    Giving one point for the impressive graphics alone, the rest of the game is corny choices with woke characters who are utterly boring. This developer really should have focused on making an actual game and not some "click words" game. My friend told me how "fun" this game is and wanted someone to play coop with them so I unfortunately wasted money on this crapfest.
  19. Steyraus
    Nov 9, 2020
    3
    ACG said it best Little Hope even less fun!!
    WHy is this franchise still going?
    These games just keep getting worse.. It incredibly boring. Story is predictable and its just feels like what it is a budget title.. There no game play to speak of , just walking around as jump scares happen, This can work (it did in Untill Dawn with its campy silliness and attractive interesting characters),    ACG said it best Little Hope even less fun!!
    WHy is this franchise still going?
    These games just keep getting worse.. It incredibly boring. Story is predictable and its just feels like what it is a budget title.. There no game play to speak of , just walking around as jump scares happen, This can work (it did in Untill Dawn with its campy silliness and attractive interesting characters), but it dosent here, with the crap story and weird looking characters
    One thing that really gets me with these Dark Anthology games are the Faces>> Especially the female faces.. They are literally the only truly terrifying thing in these games. All the face look plastic and badly animated, but the girls get some special treatment, they are truly ugly and hard to watch. For a game that relies so much on character interaction its a hugh fail.    … Expand
  20. coltonious
    Feb 19, 2023
    2
    I didn't technically play the game, but I was part of a party of people watching/playing it. I truly think that watching it was more enjoyable than playing it, because the game seemed like it would be awful to play.

    Cons: The story makes no sense whatsoever It uses the same jumpscare 10 or so times with very little other scares Most of the characters are unbearable There are some weird    I didn't technically play the game, but I was part of a party of people watching/playing it. I truly think that watching it was more enjoyable than playing it, because the game seemed like it would be awful to play.

    Cons: The story makes no sense whatsoever
    It uses the same jumpscare 10 or so times with very little other scares
    Most of the characters are unbearable
    There are some weird continuity errors, that seem to forget and randomly remember what has previously happened
    The graphics are very strikingly uncanny valley
    The game controls awkwardly and very tanky
    Even after beating the game, still left with many questions Pros:
    Will poulter :)


    This game sucked    … Expand
  21. vova22379
    Aug 28, 2022
    2
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  22. Ratingss
    Aug 28, 2021
    2
    These interactive movies should stick to just prompting you with what you want to do next, every time i have to actually pick up my controller to walk in a straight line for five meters or do some braindead quick time event im just reminded how awful this is as a game.
    The story is nothing special, rips off Silent Hill and even some tv series, and has some pretentious dude explaining    These interactive movies should stick to just prompting you with what you want to do next, every time i have to actually pick up my controller to walk in a straight line for five meters or do some braindead quick time event im just reminded how awful this is as a game.
    The story is nothing special, rips off Silent Hill and even some tv series, and has some pretentious dude explaining everything like you are dumber than a rock.    … Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 12 out of 22
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  1. CD-Action
    Feb 8, 2021
    65
    I was sure Little Hope will improve significantly upon the first installment in The Dark Pictures series, but the developers opted for the bare minimum. The story is more interesting, the ending is more surprising, and the character cast is better. There are also some technical improvements. Little Hope is decent, but still fails to provide things I expect from a good horror game, like more engaging gameplay, interesting plot twists (Until Dawn!), and a real sense of terror. [13/2020, p.38]
  2. Adventure Gamers
    Nov 30, 2020
    80
    While it doesn’t do anything new and even scales back its pure horror atmosphere, Little Hope greatly impresses in other ways with a more intriguing narrative and incredibly tense – and fun – interactive sequences. If you’re new to Supermassive’s games, this may be the best jumping-in point so far.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Nov 21, 2020
    70
    Little Hope is a slight improvement over Man of Medan. It’s still not scary at all, but at least it's less annoying than the first game. This time around, Supermassive wrote a better story, used decent camera angles, and purged awkward jokes (dumb "screamers" are still in there, though).
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