And Bobert was like 'tough shit' and smashed a flip chart over that dude's head.Ĭuts in scenes become frequent and even start to feel slightly random. 'But Bobert,' someone yells in alarm, 'we have, like, at least four hours worth of stuff to fit in!'. The audience is treated to glimpses of the creepy monsters that will later come to terrorise us, while the characters stay oblivious.Ībout half way through, though, it starts to feel like a producer crashed in and told the team that they were suddenly only allowed two hours more game. There is fog that prevents them leaving town, a dude drinking alone in a run-down bar who gives cryptic responses to everything you say, and a small ghost girl making terrifying corn dolls. The tension ramps up slowly, as the team make their way into the town proper, and creepy tropes start coming into play. The intriguing hook is that each of these characters has a doppelganger in the 17th century witch killing community, and in a family who burned to death in the 70s.Įarly on, Little Hope does pretty well at showing not telling.

Will Poulter's level-headed but perpetually confused Andrew is joined on his night of misadventure by Taylor, a young woman still given to bouts of adolescent behaviour Daniel, her secret boyfriend and token arrogant jock type Angela, the mature student who is defensive and kind of a massive bitch and John the professor, pompous and self-appointed responsible leader who throws his charges in the path of danger every chance he gets.

And while Little Hope is better than last year's Man Of Medan, I wouldn't say it reaches the heights of being actually good. Your control switches between all of the characters, and through a mix of split-second decisions, exploration of creepy ruins, and quick time events as you run from monsters, the group will either die horrible deaths or survive until morning for the revelatory plot twist. That past involves violent witch trials of a Salem-y nature, and more recent economic devastation. After a mysterious bus crash, the group tentatively makes its way through Little Hope, now a deserted ghost town, and encounter monsters and visions from the town's past. In it, you play as a college field trip group (three teenage students, one mature, and a professor, and I bet some of you already have that in your search history).

Little Hope is the second game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of interactive horror games trying to build on the popularity of 2015's Until Dawn. This interactive horror adventure is better than the first volume of the DPA, but it's still more B-movie snicker-fest than it is spine-tingling. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope review

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