At the end of Supermassive Game’s latest entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology – The Devil In Me – the season 2 premiere was teased. Titled Directive 8020, it will be a cinematic narrative horror game set in space.
The trailer, which you can see in the post-credits of The Devil In Me, also confirms the legitimacy of leaks surrounding the upcoming Dark Pictures games. Supermassive Games filed copyrights in the EU for various game titles and logos including Directive 8020. This means that it’s likely the next games will have the copyrighted titles.
So, let’s take a look at these logos and titles, and try to decipher what the game might be about. Of course, this is all just speculation and a bit of fun – as we don’t actually really know anything about these releases.
Intercession
We can see straight away from the logo that Intercession appears to hint at a religious or perhaps demonic theme with the use of an inverted cross as the ‘T’. The word ‘intercession’ itself means the act of praying on behalf of another person, further indicating a religious theme. Outside of these details, it’s hard to guess the direction Supermassive might take. It’s exciting as these themes were really successful in Little Hope which was centered on the Salem Witch Trials.
The Craven Man
As soon as I heard the name and saw the logo, I immediately thought of the 1974 film The Wicker Man. This film is about Druid priests who stuffed human sacrifices into large wicker statues to burn them. Perhaps a reach, but the logo does appear to have a large human-like figure, and so I’d guess that the game centers around a creepy cult.
The word craven means cowardly, but it’s difficult to extract too much information from that. I am very much looking forward to seeing the potential that The Craven Man has to offer as another unique addition to The Dark Pictures Anthology.
Winterfold
Much like Little Hope, I guess that the town in the game is named Winterfold as the title appears to be on a town sign, plus some creepy hand prints. Just based on the title alone, we may have an added element working against us keeping our characters alive like battling the elements of a hazardous winter storm that keeps us stranded in certain areas of the world.
Spoiler alert: At the end of House of Ashes, there is a reference to a quarantine in Winterfold. The scientists compare the incident in Iraq to one in Winterfold, but mentioned that Winterfold was worse and not localized to just one area. Interesting…
O Death
This one might be the most exciting copyright out of them all. The full title is Dark Pictures Presents: O Death.
From the logo, it appears that it is centered around the curator, as he can be seen on a playing card with 2 scythes forming a cross. Clearly, there is something suspicious about the curator, as he can appear in pivotal scenes across the 4 games in the anthology.
Plus, at the start of every game, the Curator walks out into his library in style to the song O Death. It’s too much of a coincidence if this game isn’t about the Curator.
The Dark Pictures Anthology has been an impressive set of 4 games so far, with each game offering improvements in gameplay, mechanics and graphics. It is very exciting to hear that the journey has just started and there is a brilliant set of titles already in the works. Here’s hoping to some more celebrity features, brutal decisions and gripping stories in the upcoming Dark Pictures Anthology games.
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