Prior to playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me in full, our preview of the game glimpsed through a snippet of the full experience painted a picture of a refreshing change of pace that looked different from past installments. Those sentiments failed to hold up once the full game was played, however – The Devil in Me is certainly not Supermassive Games’ best Dark Pictures game as we hoped it would end up to be, and it serves as both a poor Season 1 finale and a lackluster lead-in for what’s to come after it.
The issues with The Devil in Me are apparent from the start. During a prologue-like opener where the stage is set for this game’s murder house setting and the killer at the center of it all, players make decisions on the behalf of two unremarkable characters. That’s not a slight on their design – they’re mean to be disposable, an opener of sorts to familiarize…
