Goofy ahh unhinged nerd rant
House of Ashes spoiler warning.
One of my personal biggest problems with the game, besides the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad plot armour for most of the cast, is the endings. Or rather, *ending*.
Because there's just the one. Only the one finale scenario at that, too.
Until Dawn did this too, way back in 2015, but you would have thought that four games later (UD>HA>MoM>LH>) that they would be improving in this regard, not stagnating. Or worse, regressing.
Combined with the fact that Nick, Salim and Jason cannot die until the last 10 minutes of the game **really** kills the replayability of the game, and thus (to me) the biggest draw of this genre.
For as much justifiable flak as Little Hope gets, it still had *seven* different endings (although personally I think it's closer to four real ones).
Not only did Man of Medan also have seven endings, but it has three different ending scenarios to boot!
Daylight is a cool spectacle for sure, but if you boil it down mechanically, it is literally just an easy QTE fest. Full Circle, Lake, Ultimatum, Flooded and Matters of the Heart all feature dialogue options and choices to go alongside the QTEs (except LH which lacks QTEs altogether which is fine), which makes me want to play them over Daylight any day.
TL;DR - Replaying House of Ashes feels more like replaying a slightly variable Call of Duty campaign, and it's not because it's a military themed title. I seriously hope that The Casting of Frank Stone and Season 2 of The Dark Pictures Anthology do NOT repeat this mistake.
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