The Quarry, where the camp name sounds just as ominous as the howls.

I’ve enjoyed several of the Dark Pictures Anthology games and the fact that this one featured something of werewolf lore, I had to make a grab. Who doesn’t like being at a camp and stalked by werewolves, right?

Who is this game for?

Game length

10 hours for main storyline, many more for all achievements.

Genres

Explanation to Negative Feedback

Can’t skip cutscenes

If you’re going for all the achievements, then that means you have to play the full game possibly several times, and that means watching all the scenes play out over and over again.

Intrusive tutorials

While they are unique in the way you learn what to do in the game, they just come out of nowhere with a totally different art style to the realistic approach of the actual gameplay and it really takes you out of what’s currently going on.

It would’ve been better if they’d implemented them somehow by looking at a sheet of paper or listening to a podcast episode or even something on a tv.

Explanation to Positive Feedback

Best mini-song

Heavy Rain might be known for its constant yelling of “Jason!” but The Quarry to me will always be known for its “peanut butter butter pops” ditty. Even when playing other games, I reference back to that little jam because it makes me laugh.

Werewolves

I don’t know, I just have a thing for werewolves. Jacob from Twilight, Mercy Thompson book series, the Bitten series.

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The Quarry Review

TL;DR Review

Boy they really put emphasis on the sexual tension in this game. I get it, there are a bunch of kids at summer camp and this is their last night together, but damn.

Anyway, after the seemingly butchered attempt at vampires in House of Ashes, I’m happy they went the werewolf route.

I’m a fan of vampires, but I’m a sucker for werewolves.

I think because of that the lore in the game kept my attention more than the games in the other Dark Pictures Anthology series, though I do enjoy supernatural games as a whole. The creativity behind how supernatural beings come to exist and cope in our world is almost always unique.

This review isn’t about the werewolves though, so let’s talk about the characters.

First off, f*ck Jacob.

Aside from him, I really like playing a game and recognizing characters by sight. Usually you just have someone’s voice to go off of, which I’m always bad at recognizing from that alone. Since The Quarry uses motion-capture, I knew David Arquette, Lin Shaye, Lance Henriksen, Brenda Song, Ted Raimi, and a few others.

I’m not too fond of finding all the tarot cards, because there’s at least one branching route in the game that you can completely miss a tarot card, and if you want to go back and replay, you have to go through every scene because what’s a skip button these days, right?

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