The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan Part 1. A slow start. (Theatrical Cut Blind)
1Welcome to my The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan let's play. My name is digidv85 but please call me dig for short. This is a blind let's play. It will feature a new game to completion on the theatrical cut. Gameplay shown on PS4.
About Game: The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is an interactive drama horror game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the first installment in The Dark Pictures Anthology series, and was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 30, 2019.
Premise: The main plot of Man of Medan is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it. Decisions made by the player alter the outcome of the story and the fates of its characters.
The Curator's story centers on five individuals partaking in an underwater diving expedition to find a submerged WWII plane wreck in the South Pacific Ocean: brothers Alex (Kareem Alleyne) and Brad Smith (Chris Sandiford), Alex's girlfriend Julia (Arielle Palik), Julia's brother Conrad (Shawn Ashmore), and Félicité "Fliss" DuBois (Ayisha Issa), the captain of the group's dive boat. The expedition quickly turns dangerous, however, when the five are taken hostage by pirates Olson (Kwasi Songui), Junior (Chimwemwe Miller), and Danny (Russell Yuen). Against their will, the group is brought to a large ghost ship – the fabled Indonesian Ourang Medan – where their worst nightmares become reality. With their safety threatened, their sanity tested, and their survival at stake, the five must make swift life-or-death choices that could either lead them to freedom or cause them to suffer fatal consequences.
Gameplay: The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is a survival horror video game played from a third-person perspective in which single players or multiplayers assume control of five different characters that become trapped on board of a ghost ship. Players are required to make decisions based on their character's "head" or their "heart", or can choose for them to do nothing, whilst 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. 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.
Inspired by the popularity of their 2015 game Until Dawn's streaming, and the number of people playing the game with their friends by sharing the controls, Supermassive Games introduced two different multiplayer modes in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan titled "Shared Story" and "Movie Night". "Shared Story" allows two players to play co-operatively online. "Movie Night" allows up to five multiplayers to select their own characters and prompts them to pass the controller at each turn.
Development: The game is being developed by Supermassive Games, which focused mainly on the PlayStation 4's titles for an extended period of time. Upon seeing the favourable reception to Until Dawn, the team realized that there was a market for interactive drama horror titles and wanted to expand the concept to a larger audience. The Dark Pictures was proposed as an anthology series. Supermassive stated that they would release a new game every 6 months in the anthology, and each title represents a horror trope and features a unique story that has no connection with other entries in the series. The game was inspired by the legend about the SS Ourang Medan, a ghost ship that had allegedly become a shipwreck in Dutch East Indies waters in the 1940s. Supermassive also hired noted actors including Shawn Ashmore and Pip Torrens to provide voice acting and motion capture for the game.
Supermassive and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment officially announced the title on August 21, 2018. The game is set to be released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 30, 2019.
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