12/5/2023 0 Comments World of warships salem review![]() Moments like this happen sporadically throughout Little Hope‘s five-hour runtime, and they never get less groan-worthy. “This is exactly what happens in horror movies.” As if to overenthusiastically wink at the audience, partially taking ownership of how trite the plot is. “I’m just going to say it,” Taylor, the group’s designated sassy-girl says early on. Fail a quick-time-event (QTE) or make poor choices in a life-or-death situation, and any of them can eat dirt. Worst of all, their fate is left entirely in your hands. Unfortunately for the group of college students that stumble into town after a bus crash, current occupants are of the monsters-eager-to-disembowel variety. There are no rusty warships on high seas this time, just the titular Little Hope-a dilapidated ghost town where former residents were gung-ho for witch-burnings once upon a time. You won’t have to play last year’s Man Of Medan to understand what’s going on here, though, as it’s a stand-alone story. Little Hope is the second installment in Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology. Little Hope can’t decide if it’s a deathly-serious ghost story or a hat-tip to 80s camp, undermining itself by disguising the former as something clever. This narrative-focused cliché mill is full of choices with meaningful consequences, but they often result in a tonal whiplash. ![]() The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope isn’t quite appealing in either sense. ![]() Part of the fun of horror is if it’s not scary, you can at least laugh at the unintentional absurdity. Idiots getting sliced from stem to stern was fine too, though. Be it teens fleeing from hockey-masked bogeymen in the woods or suburban families exorcising demons from their home-I craved films that caused a hasty retreat under the covers. I used to love flipping through cable channels on Halloween as a kid looking for spooky flicks. ![]()
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