Technical improvements are offset by the story's failure to capitalize on the well-established mood. Suspected witches are hung left and right, with a child of seeming divine inspiration discerning the sinners. A terrible fire breaks out and devastates a family. A bus crashes, leaving four college students and their professor stranded. This all happens in the town of Little Hope.

After 2015's PS4 exclusive horror masterpiece Until Dawn, Supermassive Games went multiplatform with a spiritual successor, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, a game I found to have interesting ideas with an overly safe narrative. I've now had the chance to play the second entry in this overarching series, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and for better and worse, there are some major changes.