The player can change the difficulty at any point in the game.įinally, The Dark Pictures Anthology features single-player and multiplayer, each with two modes. The QTEs and alerts are adjusted by difficulty levels: Forgiving (Easy), Challenging (Normal), and Lethal (Hard). When QTE is about to appear, the player gets alerted. Failure to execute some QTEs can take the story along a different path or even lead to a character's death. The player can also find collectible objects, some of which also help in the gameplay and even provide backstory to the game lore.Īction sequences feature quick time events, requiring to pressing/smashing buttons, pressing the buttons in beat (Keep Calm segments) or aiming and shooting. While searching, the player can find various items that can help in the playthrough, such items are stored in the inventory. With extensive move set and a floating camera, characters have complete freedom of movement around the locations. Such major decision points are recorded in the system of "Bearings" and can update as the game progresses.īesides dialogues, the gameplay includes elements of exploration. The decisions affect the characters' personality traits and relationships between each other, as well as the narrative overall, offering numerous scenarios and endings.
Time for choice is limited, 10 seconds for dialogue and 5 seconds for action. The selection of options is presented as a moral compass of the protagonist, which offers the player to act either logically ("Head") or emotionally ("Heart"), or even say/do nothing at all. The gameplay is mainly revolves around making decisions that range from the usual dialogues to life and death situations. The game can go forward without any of the characters and end with all possible combinations of them, though the loss of a character still affect the game. If a character dies, however, the story doesn't end instead, it continues with another playable character taking the place of the dead one.
The player controls five different characters, each of whom can die over the course of the story. The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of cinematic games played from a third-person perspective.
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