Directive 8020

My friends and I always play through these, and similar type games. When they want to laugh, they have me play because I am unreliable with QTE's. I had the duty of playing through 8020 recently, and here are our thoughts. Cons: Too much sneak, it got boring. Not enough QTE's, so rare that it was almost a jumpscare in itself to get one? No curator song - one of my group is SUPER passionate about this, thought it was basically unplayable without. We liked the Curator in general, as a good, natural pause point in sessions. As one can expect, I killed a lot of characters off, and gotta say, the death animations were so repetitive and boring. Was cool the first time, but some variety would be nice. *Leftovers* (iykyk) was just rude. Poor guy didnt even get a chance. Pros: Thought the story, and general vibe of the game was good. I honestly don't mind the characters being a bit dumb, and the dialogues being a bit whatever at times. Cheese is part of why we are here. Wish it had like.. 50% the stealth missions at least, and some more QTE's. As is, doesn't leave any desire for replay for me. Which is sad, cause I am definitely interested to see other routes.

A lot of improvements over the other games in many ways, particularly enjoyed that your choices had repercussions long after you made them, which made a lot of the story feel more impactful overall. Stealth bits weren't great since they weren't particularly difficult, would've probably preferred cutscenes w/ QTEs or decision making to replace most of them. Seems like there's a lot of interesting ways to screw it up and get people killed which is always fun You pretty much know already sort of what you're getting with these games

I think this game is heavily over hated. If you are not a fan of stealth horror games (think Outlast), this may not be the one for you. But as someone who is a huge Dark Pictures & Outlast fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this. The plot was interesting, the design of the world & ship was scary yet beautiful, and the characters I think were decent for the most part. Outside of a few things that annoyed me about the crews decisions (which honestly, is standard horror movie stuff), I don't have many complaints for this game. Not the best, but I'd say middle of the pack as far as this series goes. If you are a Dark Pictures fan, give this a chance.

Online Coop this century ?! Bought a full game not a half puzzle

Great game so far but it does feel like a weaker entry. The writing seems very vanilla. Still a fun one.

Big changes compared to the first 4 games/season 1 of the Dark Pictures Anthology, some changes very good and others very bad. Good: removed the miserable heartbeat mechanic, increased player control over changing outcomes with a rewind-enabled mode. Bad: near complete removal of both the dark pictures that the anthology is named for and the curator who is the horror host of the anthology. It was very disappointing to lose those elements, especially the premonitions/dark pictures. I hope they're brought back for the next entry in the series. Without those elements, I'm not nearly as excited about the future of the series as I was before I played D8020. I guess I still recommend the game, but it's a less enthusiastic recommendation than it would be if the premonitions and curator were still major elements in the game like in previous games.

My brother and I played this in the cool coop mode and we both came away liking the game with a big astrisk. There are a couple story elements that don't make sense but they can be overlooked given how complex the branching paths can be. The one part that hold the game back is the horrible stealth. Stealth can be done SO much better. A big improvement that would really help this game is the ability to activate MULTIPLE distracting elements to move the hunter. For some reason you can only really do this once in an encounter which makes no sense. Despite the horrible stealth, I gave it a 7/10 and my brother gave it a 6.5/10.

Whoever decided to cancel online co-op made the biggest mistake and is killing the dark pictures anthology... I hope they learned from this and in the next game there is co-op included