I'm a huge fan of Super Massive games, love me the Dark Pictures Anthology. I'm a bigger fan of DBD. Day 1 player right here. Banned on PC though, so now I play it on console.

You would think combining the two would be a match made in Heaven. Sadly, it is not. Frank Stone is not a good Super Massive title, and it's not a good DBD game.

From the wonky facial capture, the lack of thrilling QTEs, the hamfisted elements of DBD thrown in (WHY WERE THERE GENERATORS?), the ONE TOTAL ENDING, and just general mediocrity, this game was sadly a huge letdown.

bought the game for the 2 million bp, as soon as i got my bp reward i refunded this game, 10/10

Ale gówno

this game is not scary at all and your mostly watching scenes rather then playing.

buggy even after several months of being released, u p much have to replay the whole game if u wish to 100% or see alternative ending. qte sound effect and when they appear on screen are massively delayed, just watch it on youtube

This game has so many failings as a narrative storytelling game. You split the story not just across multiple timelines, but also multiple dimensions. This makes keeping track of who is from where and even where we are at that point maddening.

Two other issues arise from the two timelines as well; the characters and plot do not get enough time to be fleshed out and become interesting since they have to share the screen time with a completely separate story and with some of the characters being alive in the future narrative, the sections where they are in "danger" lose any sense of tension since I know that they will live through this.

The action sequences of the game are little more than 'slowly point at the bad guy till he goes away'. While supermassive aren't known for their amazing game play, generally being little more than quick time events, at least games like Until Dawn required people to have quick reflexes, which paired with high pressure situations could result in people making mistakes. The action in this is boiled down to looking at the bad guy with a camera until he dies and doing that about 5-10 times. He is slow moving and comes in a straight line surrounded by fire which alerts you to the direction he is coming from. Failing this section requires you to actively seek failure to see what happens.

You'll also find the game has very little action in it, and generally telegraphs when it is coming. At no point was I scared or worried that something might happen. Once again comparing it to Until Dawn, while slow, you are constantly dealing with different "monsters" that you don't know the rules for with a few big twists to keep you on your toes. Frank Stone however has two sections where his arrival is announced. Which is during the ending of each timeline. Before that there is next to no tension since we know the bad guy is currently out of commission.

*SPOILERS FOR THE END OF THE GAME*
The ending also blows massive ass. There is no pay-off. The person the game is named after, Frank Stone shows up for all of 30 minutes. Kills one person (more if you pick the wrong arbitrary choice that is literally a coin flip on people living and dying). Then the game ends. You don't have a showdown with him, you don't defeat the big bad or even the crazy lady who summons him. You just go into the Fog, get given a large lore dump that raises more questions than answers and then it ends.

While the ending does connect directly to the lore of Dead by Daylight it does nothing for new or old fans of the lore. For new people the game just ends. They have no clue what is going on as the Fog doesn't get explained or how the Entity is involved besides the crazy lady trying to feed the world to it.
For old fans nothing new is introduced. No new revelation to the lore that changes how we look at things or how we interact with the narrative of the DbD universe.

TL;DR Story is all over the place, gameplay is slow and boring, even for a QTE game, and horror elements are non-existant.

Good game, only issues (for me) is that, first, the Alt Outfit are locked behing the DX Editipon, which is sad, because 20 bucks more for them and the early acces to the cutting room and that (Spoiler alert)



Jaime Rivera can't be bought into the fog, I'd loved to have him as a survivor in the Entity's realm for this game
Also, I want him as a Survivor, or even a legendary skin I don't care when Casting of Frank Stone gonna be a chapter in dbd :(

good game

A little bit slow but overall fun,
Only things that annoyed me the most is that one, the relationships dont matter really at all it seems, you spend the first like 2 hours of the game talking to people but it doesnt really matter whether the people like you or not.
Only other issue is that some choices just feel like a coin flip where one kills you instantly and the other you live