The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

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  1. Mandulum
    Nov 20, 2020
    7
    I enjoyed the game for the most part; mostly trying to kill off characters I didn't like. However, the interludes were pointless and distracting. The ending was worse, completely disconnected from 99% of the story.

    Date Completed: 2020-11-20
    Playtime: ~ 5h
    Enjoyment: 7/10
    Recommendation: If you like horror and games that mostly play themselves then it's short enough to be worth your time.
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Apr 14, 2021
    7
    The Dark Picture Anthology: Little Hope
    Little Improvement
    Little hope is the second game in the dark pictures anthology, a series of interactive movie like games from the team that brought you until dawn.. and while I enjoyed Little Hope much better than man of medan, theres still a lot to be desired here… Little Hope is a 4 our long interactive horror game that can be played solo or    The Dark Picture Anthology: Little Hope
    Little Improvement
    Little hope is the second game in the dark pictures anthology, a series of interactive movie like games from the team that brought you until dawn.. and while I enjoyed Little Hope much better than man of medan, theres still a lot to be desired here…
    Little Hope is a 4 our long interactive horror game that can be played solo or with a friend, here you play as a group of people after a bus swerves and crashes, youre all stuck in this abandoned ghost town called little hope with no way to escape.. the bus driver is missing and youll all set out to find him and also a way to find help.. while youre walking around youll ocassionally run into the little demon ghost girl, shell grab you and youre thrown into the past, as half of the game takes place in the 1690s witch trials.. and this are the best parts of the game.. I would have loved to play the entire game in this setting, the visuals, the acting, the charcters.. the eriness.. I loved when a ghost would grab me and take me back… and youre basically trying to solve the mystery of this little demon girl and why everyone in the past looks like the group of people youre with. Sadly the present day is so boring to get through… It was really hard to pay attention during these moments of basically just walking forward and interacting with stuff waiting to get grabbed again… that’s literally what it feels like, even when monsters are introduced to the game.. and for the first time playing a supermassive game, I felt like nothing had consequences, I felt like none of my choices ultimately mattered, leaving little to no replay value to be had here… obviously I don’t want to get into spoilers as this is a heavy story based game, but the ending here is the ending, it cant be changed, all that can be changed is the lead up to the revelation… really disappointing.
    Overal though I loved this story way more than Man of Medans.. the parts of the game that take place in the oast, and trying to come up with the answer to this games story as I played made it all worth it…
    Though the story is one you have little to no impact on this time and are more so just along for the ride… the story definitely saves this game from mediocrity.
    I give Little Hope
    a 7/10    … Expand
  3. watchm824
    Jun 8, 2021
    7
    Nothing new, but still interesting. The first half of the game is rather boring, but towards the end it is more interesting. The ending made me happy.
  4. 80Nat08
    Nov 5, 2020
    5
    Love this types of game and love the intro music .keep them coming
  5. Phobeyozos
    Nov 3, 2020
    6
    I’d say Little Hope is a genuinely great step in the right direction for the future of the Anthology and the rest of Supermassive Games’ yet-to-come titles. Though, it’s not without its flaws. I feel a lot of the issues people had with Man of Medan (MoM) had either been poorly dealt with or negatively overcompensated for. (Gameplay mechanics spoilers ahead) One example of this would be theI’d say Little Hope is a genuinely great step in the right direction for the future of the Anthology and the rest of Supermassive Games’ yet-to-come titles. Though, it’s not without its flaws. I feel a lot of the issues people had with Man of Medan (MoM) had either been poorly dealt with or negatively overcompensated for. (Gameplay mechanics spoilers ahead) One example of this would be the new QTE system, in which ample warning and therefore time is given to a player allowing for them to become aware of an upcoming QTE. Although this warning is helpful and aids in the avoidance of the frustration that comes with failing an unknown QTE, this almost completely renders the desired affect a QTE is meant to have, void. Another example is the heartbeat system, first implemented in MoM. It seems in Little Hope the heartbeat moments have been made much less intense and difficult when in comparison to MoM, once again nullifying the purpose of the system and the affect intended, a middle ground needs to be found for these systems.

    The only other real issue I had was that the locations throughout the game all felt indistinguishable from one other, very “samey”. Other than the issues mentioned, I felt like the story and themes presented were overall better than in MoM, the characters in each game are great as well as the world building aspect. In conclusion I’d say Little Hope was the one experimental addition to the anthology and from here on out we should begin to see the best of both worlds (MoM & Little Hope) throughout the rest of the anthology. Definitely worth picking up and giving a play.    … Expand
  6. Namikaze_D
    Nov 5, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. В первой части антологии главный секрет игры раскрывался уже чуть ли не в середине игры поэтому затем неслабо угасал интерес и мотивация проходить дальше. С Маленькой Надеждой в этом плане все намного лучше. Я до конца игры не понимал всех перепетий сюжета. К тому же я напрочь забыл как выглядит водитель и поэтому даже картинки не давали мне никаких подсказок. Из-за этого интерес не спадал до самого конца игры. Но есть все таки нюанс. Мне показалось, что сюжет сначала базировался на истории в прошлом. Все его твисты раскрывались довольно рано. Кто виноват становилось ясно еще в первой половине игры. В будущем хотелось бы чего-то более сложного. Например, как история Энтони. Она шла незаметно из-за событий прошлого и до конца держала у монитора. Персонажи вполне интересные. Характеры прописаны не так хорошо как хотелось бы. Не отлично, но и не плохо. Например, у меня погиб один из персонажей, но это прошло настолько буднично для меня. Мне было абсолютно параллельно. Многие пишут, что диалоги плохие, но я таких мыслей не разделяю. Как бы (СПОЙЛЕР) все происходило в голове больного старого человека. Что вы хотели?) Иногда были непонятны действия персонажей. Когда вроде бы очевидно, что сделать нужно по определенному, но они делают фэйлы. Но это все небольшие условности. QTE слишком уж упростили. Для меня это большой минус. Мало того, что в первой части QTE были довольно просты, а в этой игре решили предупреждать, что вот сейчас надо будет нажать какую-то кнопку. К тому же кнопки появляются в определенных местах. Например, треугольник, который на ПС4 наверху, появляется на экране наверху. Добавив к этому предупреждение о том, что нужно нажимать кнопку, QTE становится уж слишком легким. Насколько я понимаю игра подавалась как какой-то ужастик, но ни одного испугавшего меня момента в игре не было. Не считаю это за какой-то минус, но все же отметить стоит. Про графику особо сказать нечего. Она просто есть и все. Глаза не вытекают и на том спасибо) Чего-то крышесносящего нет. Интерактивности я особо не заметил. Свободы действий почти нет. Интерактивность небольшая есть лишь в диалогах из-за чего выстраивались характеры персонажей. Некоторые выборы совершенно не передают конечного смысла или действия. Выбираешь одно, а персонаж говорит совершенно другое либо делает что-то другое. Но такое нечасто. Возможно, это все из-за локализации. Но в любом случае даже самая плохая озвучка лучше, чем отличные субтитры)

    В целом игра понравилась даже больше чем Men of Medan. Да, в чем-то она безусловно проигрывает, но все же плюсов у нее на мой взгляд больше. Игру советую к прохождению всем любителям жанра. Интерактивность, конечно, слабая, но сюжет интересный, а это главное для этого жанра.    … Expand
  7. LoletinAlexis
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    Little Hope, second installment of the anthology and first drop in the anthology.
    Their debut videogame, Until Dawn, remains unsurpassed even by themselves.
    *STORY: Four students and their teacher must try to escape from nightmarish apparitions that haunt them tirelessly through an impenetrable fog. Will they be able to do so? The script begins strong, with a very interesting    Little Hope, second installment of the anthology and first drop in the anthology.
    Their debut videogame, Until Dawn, remains unsurpassed even by themselves.

    *STORY: Four students and their teacher must try to escape from nightmarish apparitions that haunt them tirelessly through an impenetrable fog. Will they be able to do so?

    The script begins strong, with a very interesting prologue and a very successful initial setting.
    The problem is its linearity (the script is pattern after pattern and automatically spoils surprises) and above all the anticlimactic final level, which is so unexpected as well as ineffective and disappointing.
    I did like the end of the story, let's be clear.

    *GAMEPLAY*: There are still a few problems in this section: the camera usually works well most of the time, but the movement is still horribly rough.
    This time there is more gameplay variety, but nothing impressive.

    *GRAPHICS*: Artistically as well as usual (the atmosphere works very well, you have a bad time playing this game), but this time they have gone too far with the robotic and facial animations, which have worsened.

    *SOUND*: Many problems of localization (although I suppose that with future patches it will be fixed), but the Spanish dubbing, the soundtrack and sound effects are correct.

    *INNOVATION*: Little Hope is the first Supermassive Games **** not because it's a bad game or because the formula isn't innovating (which in itself doesn't have to be a bad thing), but because they are starting to fail at things they used to do well.
    The theme of witches today is not usually seen as much as before, it must be said.    … Expand
  8. boeph
    Dec 12, 2020
    6
    Та же Man of Medan, но с менее насыщенным и увлекательным сюжетом, более глупыми персонажами и еще более уродским управлением. Такая оценка оттого, что обожаю игры такого жанра. Надеюсь, третья часть будет заключительной либо разработчики всерьез возьмутся за переосмысление серии.Та же Man of Medan, но с менее насыщенным и увлекательным сюжетом, более глупыми персонажами и еще более уродским управлением. Такая оценка оттого, что обожаю игры такого жанра. Надеюсь, третья часть будет заключительной либо разработчики всерьез возьмутся за переосмысление серии.
  9. Hygiliack
    Jul 3, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This review contains heavy spoilers, be warned

    THE GAME IS NOT BAD per se, but coming from Until Dawn I was hoping both Anthology games would be paranormal horror/creature feature, yet you will see that disappointingly is not

    This game is just badly written and executed, in the first 20 minutes you know what this is about, I mean(Heavy spoilers) Act 1 a bus driver, voices heard in the bus but no one is seen, Police officer confused when told he needs to take "them" to their destination, and then after an accident, cut and move to a home where all but 1 die... Then all of them are a character that shows after the bus crashes, there you are given the whole story, all of it is on the MC's mind(And it is overly obvious, like the black dude that never responds to anyone but MC and laughs when he talks about "them" when he only sees the MC

    Until dawn being paranormal in nature, and considering The Curator is apparently Death itself, one would expect this to be paranormal, and I am guessing that the next installment is going to be all about PTSD, so they went from a blockbuister hit, to lameness, and BTW, the ending sequence was totally unnecesary, as it is obvious all that is shown there(all of this besides the fact that the game uses a widely used trope, like the movies Identity, Raising Cain, The Dark Half, Secret window, even Psycho or Friday 13th(1st movie) and books like Thr3e)    … Expand
  10. TEG_17
    Jun 5, 2022
    6
    Отличия от предыдущей части минимальны, все также довольно красива, кинематографична. Свою роль интерактивного кинца на вечер, два, выполняет на ура. В отличии от первой части, где, в чем суть довольно быстро понял, здесь сути не понимал до самого финала ( Но не потому что, что-то очень оригинальное, для любителей ужастиком неожиданные повороты антологии не думаю что могут удивить, да иОтличия от предыдущей части минимальны, все также довольно красива, кинематографична. Свою роль интерактивного кинца на вечер, два, выполняет на ура. В отличии от первой части, где, в чем суть довольно быстро понял, здесь сути не понимал до самого финала ( Но не потому что, что-то очень оригинальное, для любителей ужастиком неожиданные повороты антологии не думаю что могут удивить, да и цели у разработчиков такой не стояло) а потому что направление поджанра данной главы такое.
    А ну и персонажи такое ощущение что менее прописаны, нежели в первой части и действуют иногда "немного" странно.    … Expand
  11. Korma
    Jan 17, 2021
    6
    As someone who really enjoyed Man of Maden and Until Dawn, it really pains me to leave a negative review for this game.

    Firstly, the concept of Little Hope is fantastic. Everything about the game from the much improved story, cast of characters and voice acting is amazing. The game itself is riddled with game breaking bugs when playing in co-op. As of now, there is an infinite loading    As someone who really enjoyed Man of Maden and Until Dawn, it really pains me to leave a negative review for this game.

    Firstly, the concept of Little Hope is fantastic. Everything about the game from the much improved story, cast of characters and voice acting is amazing. The game itself is riddled with game breaking bugs when playing in co-op. As of now, there is an infinite loading screen bug which appears to be caused by a dodgy save file. Only way to fix this to fix this was basically to replay the scene from the start. There was another moment where the game soft locked for me. After restarting the game and I was once again affected by the soft lock at the very same point in the game. While playing with a friend of mine, he described that he was in some kind of limbo where everything was not loaded in which is the possible reason why my game is soft locking. I feel that the game has some kind of major syncing issues.

    Because of these game breaking bugs. I simply cannot recommend to anyone to buy this game for the time being until Super Massive have released a hotfix/patch to fix the major breaking bugs.

    Again, mega shame as I didn't have any of these issue with Man of Meden when I first played it on console.    … Expand
  12. elansadrake
    Feb 13, 2021
    6
    Um jogo que me prendeu inicialmente muito bem, as escolhas também são bem vastas o que faz o jogo ser muito bom neste aspecto, porém, embora o jogo te prenda inicialmente com o decorrer do enredo instiga sua curiosidade a saber o porquê das coisas, o Final é surpreendente, porém, de forma extremamente negativa, por mais que o final até consiga funcionar, ele é terrivel, quando vemos coisasUm jogo que me prendeu inicialmente muito bem, as escolhas também são bem vastas o que faz o jogo ser muito bom neste aspecto, porém, embora o jogo te prenda inicialmente com o decorrer do enredo instiga sua curiosidade a saber o porquê das coisas, o Final é surpreendente, porém, de forma extremamente negativa, por mais que o final até consiga funcionar, ele é terrivel, quando vemos coisas que instigaram tanto nossa curiosidade ter uma explicação no minimo Frustrante, um jogo bem mediano, foi bom enquanto eu jogava, mas após acabar, foi só mais um jogo… Expand
  13. Davidnotavailab
    Nov 5, 2022
    5
    Even tho some may say its better than man of medan, i consider it to be as mediocre if not even worse. The outcomes are evem more limited, and also the characters dont exist so whats the point in saving them, andrew cant **** die, so hes a cheat code that u start to see. The only pros to man of medan are its better optimised, it looks better, and its a bit more alert
  14. Top1saraya_
    Dec 3, 2022
    7
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  15. PenetratorGod
    Sep 1, 2023
    6
    Second game in the series. It offers almost the same level of story and gameplay compared to the first game.
  16. bluecheese666
    Oct 22, 2022
    7
    the most disliked in the anthology, did not like it very much, boring......
  17. Pmstz
    Feb 3, 2023
    5
    Average/ok game
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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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