MAN OF MEDAN - LETS PLAY - PART 1

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Published on March 2, 2024 4:00:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFkZ4nKINY

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Man of Medan (2019)

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is a 2019 interactive drama and survival horror video game with paranormal horror elements developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the first out of eight planned installments in The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of standalone horror video games. Man of Medan features a cast of five playable protagonists and a multilinear narrative influenced by player choice. The game's decision-making scenes, of which there are several, can significantly alter the trajectory of the plot and change the relationships between the main characters. Due to these choices, any of the five protagonists can die permanently.

Shawn Ashmore stars as the game's leading actor, playing one of the diving squad's members named Conrad. Taking place in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean near French Polynesia, Man of Medan focuses on four college students and the captain of the boat, Duke of Milan, who embark on a diving trip in pursuit of the remains of a WWII-era plane. After a hostile encounter with a group of modern day pirates, the five protagonists are forced by said pirates to sail the seas and search for something called the "Manchurian Gold", subsequently coming across what seems to be a ghost ship where they encounter visions of phantom creatures.

Man of Medan was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on 30 August 2019, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 27 September 2022, and for Nintendo Switch on 4 May 2023. A second game in the anthology, Little Hope, was released on 30 October 2020.
Gameplay
A screenshot of Man of Medan's premonitions mechanic. The player character walks into a room, where a black-framed picture hangs on a wall. A button prompt with a green "A" on the centre appears beside the picture to indicate that the player can interact with it. Once the button is pressed, the game shows a vision of a character, Conrad, getting away from the other characters using a speedboat.
Interacting with collectable pictures, such as a black-framed one that a character named Fliss finds in a boat, triggers a premonition of what may happen later in the game. Whether or not the vision comes true depends on player actions.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is a horror themed video game played from a third-person perspective in which single or multiple players assume control of five different characters that become trapped on board a ghost ship.[2] Players are required to make decisions based on their character's "head" or their "heart", or can choose for them to do nothing, while selecting between different options when interacting with other characters. The selection of options are stylised as a compass, which is both representative of the characters' "moral compass" and reflective of the game's nautical themes. The narrative changes and adapts to the choices that the players make, thus making it possible for players to keep all playable characters alive or to have some (or all) of them die. Choices also affect the characters' personality traits (which affects subsequent cutscenes and dialogue options), as well as their relationships with each other. The game can be played multiple times, as there are multiple endings and multiple scenarios based on the decisions that the players make. Action sequences mainly feature quick time events, most of which, if missed, can lead to dire consequences for the characters. As players explore the ghost ship, they can find different "Dark Pictures" that gives them premonitions of what may happen in the future.[3] Players can also uncover the mystery surrounding the tragedy that occurred on the ship in the past, which can help save their character's lives in the present. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/xxcodebreakerxxgamingxx

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