![]() ![]() Nowhere better represented is this failure than in the game’s sole antagonist – a mute, Holmes-obsessed stalker figure whose implied psycho-sexual violent insanity is never given a single moment of true personality or horrific revelry. Read: The Quarry Review – A supermassive achievement in horror Holmes himself.įor a game filled with dummy rooms and repeating hallways, it’s surprising how unself-aware The Devil in Me is about its own repetitious, unambitious nature considering Supermassive’s previously demonstrated ability to go truly buck-wild places with an initially basic concept, as seen in House of Ashes. The game is far more concerned with a kind of gimmicky mode of storytelling that fails to really develop or subvert the few interesting narrative threads it sets out from the start its reveals are easy to predict, and its borrowed tropes are imported wholecloth from franchises like Saw, and uncritically defer to the journalistic exaggerations made about H. The historically dubious record of Holmes’ actual crimes isn’t much of a concern for The Devil in Me though. Holmes, The Devil in Me casts players in the shoes of a documentary crew basing their latest film on the maniac Holmes himself, an endeavour which seems to strike location gold when they are invited to an incredible recreation of Holmes’ famous World’s Fair Hotel the death-trap rigged hotel of horrors which Holmes fitted out with all manner of moving walls, trap doors, suffocation rooms and other architectural nasties. ![]() Taking inspiration from the murderous exploits of the so-called ‘first American serial killer’ H. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me continues Supermassive Games’ fraught balancing act of compelling initial concepts and wonky execution, and turns some of the most fundamentally crowd-pleasing horror tropes into one of the most mild-mannered, self-sabotaging entries in the Dark Pictures series so far. An FBI special agent takes all the wrong lessons from the killers he catches. A true crime documentary film crew get closer to their subject matter than they’d like. ![]() A loving couple checks into a foreboding, murderous hotel. ![]()
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