Supermassive Games' The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope scored big at last night's TIGA Awards 2021, winning two prizes including the most coveted one, the Game of the Year award.
A surprising choice, to be sure, even though Chris praised last year's entry in the anthology horror series. His review rated The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope 8.5 out of 10, with the following summary:
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope takes the Supermassive Games formula and improves on the previous outing, Man of Medan, in so many ways. With a more interesting story, a strong set of characters, the masterful building of atmosphere and more, you're going to be left on the edge of your seat while playing through this story. The excellent branching narrative, as well as multiplayer options also increase the gameplay value exponentially. This still isn't perfect, the sloth-like movements of characters can be annoying later on and some QTE's are annoyingly cheap, but this is still a brilliant game, one I would recommend to anybody.
Here's the full list of TIGA Awards 2021 winners, by the way.
BEST ARCADE GAME: Team 17 (publisher) and Studio Koba (developer): Narita Boy.
BEST RECRUITMENT AGENCY: Aardvark Swift.
BEST QA/LOCALISATION PROVIDER: PTW.
BEST CASUAL GAME: Trailmix: Love and Pies.
HERITAGE IN GAMES AWARD: Dovetail Games: Trains Sim World 2.
BEST EDUCATIONAL/SERIOUS/SIMULATION GAME: BBC Bitesize/Mobile Pie: BBC Bitesize History Detectives.
BEST TECHNICAL INNOVATION: Panivox.
BEST AUDIO DESIGN: Square Enix: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…
BEST ROLE PLAYING GAME: Variable State: Last Stop.
BEST ACTION AND ADVENTURE GAME: Sony Interactive Entertainment/Insomniac Games: Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
DIVERSITY AWARD: Payload Studios: Tentacle Zone Incubator.
CREATIVITY AWARD: State of Play: South of the Circle.
BEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: The University of Portsmouth.
BEST SOCIAL GAME: Supermassive Games: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope.
BEST AUDIO SERVICES SUPPLIER: Side.
BEST STRATEGY GAME: Creative Assembly: Total War: WARHAMMER II.
BEST PUBLISHER: Sony Interactive Entertainment.
BEST TAX AND ACCOUNTANCY FIRM: MMP Tax.
OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP: Jason Falcus, COO Kwalee.
BEST VR/AR GAME: Rebellion: Sniper Elite VR.
BEST ART/ANIMATION/TRAILER SUPPLIER: Atomhawk.
BEST PUZZLE GAME: Out of the Blue Games: Call of the Sea.
BEST EDUCATION INITIATIVE AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT: Ubisoft.
BEST LEGAL SERVICES PROVIDER: Stevens & Bolton LLP.
BEST VISUAL DESIGN: Sony Interactive Entertainment: Returnal.
BEST SERVICES PROVIDER: Liquid Crimson.
BEST SMALL STUDIO: XR Games.
BEST LARGE STUDIO: Kwalee.
OUTSTANDING EMPLOYER AWARD 2021: Dovetail Games.
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL AWARD: Jake Habgood, Director of Education partnership at Sumo Group.
GAME OF THE YEAR: Supermassive Games: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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