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I wasn't a huge fan of Man of Medan, the first chapter of The Dark Pictures Anthology, but I gave Little Hope a chance to improve on it. Well, it did turn out to be better than Man of Medan in some ways, but infinitely worse in others!
The main drawback, once again, is the characters. While I felt nothing for the characters in Man of Medan, I very quickly grew to outright hate this lot! They're constantly being mean to each other for almost no reason at all, and they're often arrogant to boot.
This is exacerbated by a problem I've had with Supermassive Games since Until Dawn, but that reaches its apex here. The dialogue does not sound natural! Nearly all the lines are badly written and incongruent not just with each other but also with the situation; they sound like nothing people would actually say. I was almost endlessly thinking, "I could have written something better than that!"
On the other hand, I think the story is miles better than Man of Medan. It's still not scary (partly because of the characters and partly because it escalates too quickly), but I became steadily more intrigued by the events in the 1600s that were revealed through flashbacks. And the ending is genuinely brilliant, complete with an inspired reason to keep everyone alive.
And yet, I still can't bring myself to rate it higher than two stars out of five. That is how insufferable the characters and dialogue are!
My rating: 45%
