Of course everyone wants to surround themselves in a cloud of the darkness from their soul and fling the landscape about with umbral tentacles, but how well does that translate into video game terms? In The Darkness 2, the answer is a firm “not very well.” Here’s a review of The Darkness 2 which commits the delicious sin of comparing the game to the deep moral choices in BioShock. Yes, really. Entertainment Weekly has the story.
We all love tentacle games, of course, but the trick is making tentacles fun. I’m not sure The Darkness 2 goes the distance there.