An obsessed recluse and Holmes stan building animatronics of his victims and coming up with modern murder traps in imitation of Holmes is a genuinely creepy idea, and it’s believable in an era where we tend to treat serial killers with equal parts revulsion and reverence. Predictably, things go horribly wrong, and Du’Met is imitating Holmes’ tendency to build elaborate murder traps.Įverything great from The Devil in Me centers around the true-crime angle. They all work on a reality TV show that’s almost out of money and dead in the water, but a mysterious benefactor named Granthem Du’Met offers them a chance to tour his property, which is a replica of the infamous murder hotel run by H.H. Kate and Mark are fresh off a breakup, while Erin and Jamie are feeling out a potential relationship. In line with past games, these characters have some juicy drama already underway. Past the tutorial, in the modern day, we’re hanging out with director Charlie and his crew: lighting tech Jamie, sound engineer Erin, cameraman Mark, and journalist Kate. Even the skeleton we spot in the tutorial is part of the grift Holmes sold them to medical facilities for a tidy profit. His crowning achievement at the end of the tutorial isn’t cradling a corpse or admiring a skull but stealing a woman’s wedding ring. Supermassive depicts Holmes as a terrifying killer, with unnerving line delivery and literal skeletons in his closet, but the studio deftly captures that he’s also a scam artist. They have the misfortune of booking the wrong hotel and come face-to-face with Holmes, who ends up murdering them.
The Devil in Me opens with a tutorial where a young married couple come to Chicago to experience the first Ferris wheel at the 1893 World’s Fair. The Devil in Me tackles true crime - and when it focuses on that subject, it gets really scary. The meat and bones of the game comes down to quick-time events where players help their character of choice flee from an attacker, fight off an ambush, or dodge dangerous obstacles. Players watch the characters go about their media jobs in this weird new place, interact with one another, explore areas, and solve puzzles. This isn’t a story of supernatural mummies or harrowing journeys through time - it’s about five burned-out media employees trying to survive a modern imitator of Holmes (and probably dying in the process).Īs in each Dark Pictures game, The Devil in Me puts you in control of a cast of five characters. Holmes and his semi-apocryphal Murder Castle in Chicago. The Devil in Me, the newest and final entry in the anthology series’ first season, promises a more intimate adventure, delving into the true-crime story of H.H. The Dark Pictures Anthology has been exploring all flavors of horror, from Sumerian demons deep in the desert to ghost ships stranded at sea.
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