House of Ashes is Supermassive Games’ newest title in the Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of interactive horror movies. Where previous titles featured ghost ships and haunted towns, House of Ashes heads in a more visceral and action-packed direction, with the player taking control of a special forces team at the tail end of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
House of Ashes, the next game in Supermassive’s Dark Pictures franchise, just hosted a hands-off gameplay reveal and it seems as if the developers are focused as much on making up for missteps in previous entries as they are at telling a compelling story this time around. Given the content of the preview, I’d say they have a pretty good chance of accomplishing everything they’ve set out to do.
HIGH The ruined house fight.
LOW The inexplicably awful ending.
WTF Seeing the tchotchkes in The Curator’s library.
HIGH The ballroom scene.
LOW I can’t skip old dialogue and cutscenes when replaying the game?
WTF Dear god, he’s been watching me this whole time!
HIGH Well, thank heavens I picked the right one last time.
LOW One last set of major graphical glitches.
WTF I wasn’t expecting to run into you in this dream-state!
HIGH The letter-writing puzzle and its setup.
LOW Traversing the hedge maze four times in one hour.
WTF It’s pretty late in the game to be dropping new mechanics, isn’t it?
HIGH Pulling off a perfect one-shot confrontation.
LOW Wasting action points searching for items when my inventory was full.
WTF Can paintings really drive one to suicide?
HIGH Figuring out (REDACTED)’s secret upon meeting them.
LOW No second save slot? How am I supposed to do everything differently?
WTF Do they really think I don’t know the significance of Al Azif?
HIGH Finally figuring a way past those damn sentry guns!
LOW The puzzle which expects me identify musical notes by ear.
WTF Wow, this robot sure likes to talk to himself, doesn’t he?
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