Même si ya toujours des problèmes techniques, c'est celui qui s'en sort le mieux, où les devs ont pas fait d'environnements aussi ouverts que House of Ashes, et du coup c'est un peu mieux maîtrisé...
... Mais, alors je sais que c'est pas le but du jeu, je l'ai trouvé un peu décevant parce que... Ben on se marre moins devant les situations rencontrées par les héros. On est plongé dans un Saw-like avec ses escape-room +/- bien pensées (parfois cool, souvent sages envers les persos),...
Et tout ça pour arriver à un dernier acte où ça enchaîne les erreurs grossières avec la figure menaçante du jeu, des incohérences, pour nous emmener vers un final assez cool quand même.

En bref, c'est moyen +. Ya de l'idée pour en faire quelque chose de correct, mais faut que Supermassive prenne davantage son temps pour ses créations.

Disappointing. Starts out promising and has a few genuinely great moments, but those are few and far between in The Devil In Me's overly long story. There are way too many long sequences wandering aimlessly or fumbling around in the dark that grind everything to a halt. Long QTE sequences where a single mistake is punishable by death and arbitrary decisions with surprise fatal consequences make this the hardest of the Dark Pictures games as well, extra frustrating when the game is already so bloated.

I feel like this game is Supermassive giving in to some of their worst tendencies, and I hope they learn the right lessons from this misstep going forward.

It's really funny how SuperMassive's Quarry or Until Dawn style games are like their premiere HBO Original shows, with superior face tracking tech, writing, replayability, etc. Meanwhile, the Dark Pictures games are basically the stuff HBO sticks on HBO Max. Just under-the-radar projects that are thrown out to die at the worst times of the year. Devil in Me is fine. Not the worst Dark Pictures game but still nothing exceptional. It's cool to see SuperMassive move away from the monster-focused villains of the previous titles and swap them for something more human but the overarching problem here is still pacing issues, bad writing and immersion-breaking face capture.

There's just so much time wasted on long, arduous segments that are meant to build tension and explore the characters, but instead just meander. These characters are never going to be interesting because the writing never does much with them outside of going, oh, this one is a bit mean, this one is really scared all the time, and these ones have relationship issues. And that's absolutely fine. You don't have an Until Dawn length runtime to flesh them out and build compelling inter-personal relationships. But it wastes time making them walk down long corridors or across bland open environments solving simple puzzles and chatting when they don't have the personalities to fill the silence.

Just get to the horror, which is largely where these smaller SuperMassive games thrive. This one definitely has a problem picking between being a Saw-like psychological thriller or a Jason-Vorhees-esque slasher, and excels much, much more when it focuses on the former, but it's largely all fine. It just takes a very long time to get into those parts and, once you've eventually settled into the rhythm, the game runs out of creativity fast, devolving into various scenes where you enter a room, the killer shows up, you hide and then he chases you. Rinse and repeat and that's the last two hours of the game.

It's still worth it though to see the characters look at each other with nothing but cold emptiness behind their eyes as they admit they love each other or recoil in fear. It's basically like playing a Yorgos Lanthimos video game, where every character is an alien feigning emotion to understand what the small squishy Earth people feel every day.

Все что касается плюсов игры я могу выделить лишь:
1) Неплохую, нагнетающую моментами атмосферу;
2) Геймплейная составляющая (добавили разнообразные фичи, при этом забивая на некоторые из них же сразу после первой демонстрации);
3) Если Вы играете в компании (а я нег представляю как в проекты серии Dark Pictures можно проходить в соло), то можно от души посмеятся с некоторых кринжовых моментов.
Все остальное в игре ужасно:
1) Маньяк. Максимально тупой болванчик, который просто ходит и делает максимально все, чтобы ваши персонажи не были убиты. У Вас больше шансов умереть от действий сокамандника, чем от убийцы.
2) Отвратительный, унылый и каррикатурный сюжет, который не преподносит ничего интересного и не даёт никакого игрового опыта нового. Твистов просто нет, хотя в предыдущих трех играх серии авторы как-то пытались под конец немного перевернуть восприятие игры.
3) Сами главные герои также максимально глупые, в их действиях, иногда, полностью отсутствует логика, да и харизмой и какой-то интересной историей они не обладают.
4) Большие проблемы с технической составляющей. В первую очередь, хочется выделить отвратительные лицевые анимации и анимации передвижения. Все это выглядит дёшево для 2022 года.
5) Огромное количество ненужной информации в виде листовок, которую вываливают на игроков. Увы, все читать это максимально скучно уже к середине игры, потому что там нет абсолютно ничего интересного. Да и без толку, потому что мы в своём прохождении не нашли только штук 5 из 50 примерно и все равно не имели нормального и внятного представления о происходящем.
По итогу хочется сказать, что в это играть надо исключительно в компании, а лучше вообще не играть, потратив 8 часов на что-то более полезное.
4/10.

I knew going into this that this wouldn't be a pleasant experience based off of other reviews but I still went in open-minded having played it a full year after it's release. The bar was low man, but holy shit. What happened between House of Ashes and this?

Something about this entire premise just did not hit right with me. They already went with the whole "saw trap serial killer" concept with Until Dawn, but this one just full sent it to death, with no believable reasoning behind it. The backstory twist was predictable and completely undermines it's own villain, just turning him into a teleporting superhuman who shows up whenever it's convenient. The game suggests that he's in 3 or 4 locations at the same time while never hinting that there are some supernatural elements at play. It just made the whole 8 hour runtime feel weird and pointless.

This isn't helped by the pacing at all. The first half is outrageously boring, setting up some of the worst characters in the series who all seem to hate each other. The 2nd half is where all the "action" takes place, but it's more like scenes where character A or sometimes B run/hide from discount Mikie Myers interspersed with the most annoying investigation settings in the series. They introduced the most useless collectible ever in this game, on top of the usual lore clues sprinkled about. It basically gave them an excuse to go hog wild with these bland and almost pitch black empty spaces that just exist for you to fumble around in for 20 minutes trying to figure out where the game intends for you to go. If there was any tension at all that you achieved from running away from the killer, these walking around bits usually nuked that feeling every time they showed up. These are usually the worst parts of the other games but they've never been this annoying to deal with until now.

They implemented a new inventory item system where each character has their own light source and bonus "power" they can individually use, such as Charlie being able to open locked drawers. I'm open to this series trying new things, but this one was a bit of a flop. I kept forgetting that it was even a thing you could do because some characters just use their abilities much more often than others. I found myself locked in a room as Kate for 30 minutes because she's supposed to use this super cool investigative journalist trick with a pencil that the game gave no indication that she even fucking had in the first place. She used it literally once in that moment, and then never again, so what was the point?

Trying to dabble into this part without spoiling, but if the game wants me to utilize what we know about the character's and their individual personalities to our advantage, then they need to really consider writing better characters? This series isn't well known for having the most stellar casts and I'm usually able to swallow it fine, but this one in particular has some of the most one-note, insufferable barbarians at it's helm. You learn almost nothing about them and yet the Curator's smug ass treats you like a dickhead for not picking up on what you're supposed to do with the little information that's thrown at you. This, coupled up with the fact that the villain is basically Homelander, made the deaths and failures feel extremely cheap.

The optimization itself is also still pretty stinky a year after release. I almost refunded it because it was doing some weird audio de-syncing and displaying extreme desaturation that I never turned on. Opening the game itself was like opening malware; it just death gripped my whole system and refused to exit fullscreen mode no matter how hard I struggled to change it. Subtitles were written incorrectly and had words spelled wrong sometimes. The first fuse box mini-game had the wrong inputs listed. I thought for sure that the game was just broken, but it turned out that you're supposed to use your keyboard to do them even though the UI tells you to use the mouse. Just straight up forehead mechanics.

Please just be a fluke, Supermassive. I really like their games but they need to slow down the release times if they're gonna try to make longer, bigger games like this. Not every story they put out can be golden, but there's some formulas they refuse to change and it's starting to ruin the experiences. Each game has worse looking models with zero souls behind their eyes. I would love if the next one has a cast of characters who are actual friends that don't snipe each other with every line of dialogue, but it's set in space so who the fuck knows. They're probably miserable co-workers, again, who all have a previous past of dating each other, again. At least that one looks like it has a monster.