The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is the second game in the Dark Pictures Anthology series and its a good. Just like the first there is three ways to play, two ways with friends and one way alone. Don't Play Alone has Movie Night where you can play with 2-5 players, where everyone gets to pick the chracther they wanna use in the start. Shared Story is when you play with one friend online and the game picks who see what's and who plays as who. Play Alone is solo run of the game. I played the Movie Night by myself just to see how it was, this is local, coach co-op but I played Shared Story with my cousin Jamari. This is reviewed on the Xbox Series X.
I do enjoy this game more than Man of Medan, but my cousin made a super valid point that this one has more walking around than the 1st, which is the bulk of the game. Where gameplay is lacking, story telling is winning, and during this story telling is some great characters. I hated the characters in Until Dawn, it was mixed bag in Man of Medan but they finally made a quite likeable cast in this one. You play as 5 different people, four college students, Andrew, Daniel, Taylor and Angela, along with them the professor John.
Lets talk about the story really quickly without spoiling stuff, so the game takes place in three different time periods, it starts in the 70s goes modern day but blends modern day with the 1600s. The past plays a big role in this game, as the theme of the game might just be about letting go of the past. The professor is taking his students on a field trip, during the trip they gotta go threw a town called Little Hope, sadly for them the bus driver swerved a little too hard and cost the bus to crash. This is where everything goes wrong as a fog is keeping them in Little Hope. They're tryna find a way out and at the very least find a phone to call for help. Each of them linked to demons which brings the spooky out in this game
Gameplay, gameplay is fairly simple, you explore and when you explore you find clues and read things that may help you figure out what's going on, or just things to confuse you more. Look out for post cards, on these post cards are premonition, vision of possible outcomes to come. Exploring will mostly lead to cutscenes and the bulk of gameplay is of course the point and click decision making, you get three options and one of them is two say nothing at all, your two options will be a heart option or a head option, sometimes you'll get two hearts and two heads. Above the option is a trait, chracther traits are important, decisions really do determine the outcome and changing the traits of a chracther can really determine weather or not they live in the end. QTE's of course, QTE's can of course lead to death at fatal times, whereas sometimes it just a mishap. You also get a rhythm game where you are trying to be quiet, they don't warn you so you have to get use to this at first and messing this up can also lead to death. The button will 1st just pop up and of course you just wanna press it, and boom it fails you start with A then it'll switch to Y. LB to sprint is still weird, RB still leads to a pause menu, one that is very useful in solo play but annoying in Shared Story, which will actually make you miss out on stuff. You also have combat, when you're fighting a demon you'll have a few seconds to aim at the spot and click the button before its too late!
Replay value is high, I'm not sure how many endings the game has in total, but you can get different outcomes, meaning how many people survive. You'll do your 1st gameplay, then you might wanna do one with a friend, then you might wanna do where everyone lives or everybody dies. You might wanna do a playthrough where you don't say anything the whole game, or where you do all heart answers or all head answers. Unfortunately you can't skip things though, so you might get tired of somethings, however you do have chapter select option. You might even wanna do the Shared Story twice one where you're the host and another time where you aren't. My cousin got to play things out when he wasn't the host and even on solo play I didn't get to play.
Overall fun game, Man of Medan didn't make me excited to play Little Hope, but Little hope does make me excited to play the next installment in the franchise. I do recommended this game, you don't need to play the others to play this one, as its all different stories, its a nice little game that can finished within 4 1/2 hours to 6 hours. Graphics are crazy, its like 8k! Haha.
Overall-8.3
Gameplay-7.5
Graphic-9.2
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