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Damn, Devil in Me actually looked like it might be competent by the trailer.

I liked House of Ashes a lot more than Little Hope. I was honestly pretty impressed by how Little Hope got me invested in trying to figure out the connections and what was really going on, and we know how that ended up. Houses of Ashes didn't pull a fakeout, to its credit, and I didn't mind how it wasn't terribly scary because it was clearly going for a thriller angle based on how early the monsters are revealed, and I was pretty tense for a lot of it. Of course, this depended a lot on my actually caring about the characters (ie Salim, and to a lesser extent Jason), so the game couldn't skate by on shallow stereotypes like everybody in Little Hope was and the writing just barely managed to succeed.

The gameplay is shallow but somehow it still manages to be compelling (a friend mentioned that he'd play a game like this where the decisions are what to buy in a grocery store). It's a shame how half-assed a lot of the games' aspects are when they really do seem to care about at least some of it. They really should put in a lot more effort for the second season because they're just wasting potential.