![]() ![]() Each member of this group is a dead ringer for a member of the family from the game's opening. The bus driver responsible for the crash is missing, and the field-tripping group finds themselves surrounded by a mysterious fog that sends anyone who ventures into it back in the direction they came. Our focus soon shifts to another group-a professor, John, and four students, Andrew, Angela, Taylor, and Daniel-who are attempting to regain their bearings after a bus crash leaves them stranded in the woods. In the ensuing blaze, every member of the family meets their grisly demise, save Will Poulter's Anthony, who helplessly watches on. These glowing embers of drama soon blaze up into a literal raging fire when the younger sister leaves her doll on the stovetop. And, in a hint at the spiritual warfare that will dominate much of Little Hope's second half, the younger sister has been held back repeatedly after church to speak with the reverend. The older sister feels isolated and depressed. Little Hope begins with a flashback to the 1970s and a brief introduction to a troubled family of six. In the end, they don't, but I still had a good time on the ride to that disappointing conclusion. As the game progressed, I became increasingly skeptical that those threads would come together in a satisfying way. And its conceit, which finds a group of college students and their professor stranded in the woods after their bus crashes, hangs on a premise that will be familiar for fans of Stephen King's The Mist or John Carpenter's The Fog. It borrows its Puritan-era paranoia from The Witch (and Arthur Miller's non-horror play The Crucible). It borrows iconography from The Blair Witch Project. Little Hope, like its immediate predecessor Man of Medan, is a mashup of horror tropes and subgenres. ![]() Some smart gameplay tweaks ensure that Little Hope still highlights Supermassive's vital role in the modern adventure space, but it also highlights why the studio's future games need to be better than this for those smart changes to really shine. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope gives me a little hope for the future of Supermassive Games’ horror series. ![]()
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