Dark

Dark (stylized as DARK) is a stealth action role-playing video game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media, released in July 2013. It was officially announced on May 4, 2012. A playable version of the game was presented at the 2012 Role Play Convention in Cologne, Germany and at E3 2012.

Why Its Filled With Darkness

 * 1) Dull and generic story, which is about Eric Bane, a newly turned vampire suffering from amnesia, who learns that he will turn into a ghoul if he doesn't drink the blood of his sire.
 * 2) Cheesy dialogue.
 * 3) Laughable voice acting. Not to mention the protagonist was voiced by the same actor who played Geralt from The Witcher franchise.
 * 4) Eric Bane is a very unappealing protagonist that makes Aiden Pearce, who is also an unappealing and boring protagonist, look like Batman or Mario. His motives are just to recover his memories and not die, that's it.
 * 5) The gameplay is rather boring, bland, and repetitive. You just suck the enemy's blood and try not to get caught by the enemy.
 * 6) Dumb AI that suffers from hivemind mentality, meaning when you're spotted every enemy knows exactly where you are.
 * 7) Bad stealth sections, where there are too many enemies and, following WIS#6, getting caught alerts every enemy on the map.
 * 8) Generic, and boring environments, and because of the terrible graphics, every looks dull.
 * 9) Terrible music that is barely hearable.
 * 10) Your movement is extremely slow, regardless of either walking, crouching, running, or moving bodies.
 * 11) Bad melee combat because you can ONLY attack when near an enemy and you have no way to defend yourself when spotted.
 * 12) The choices you make do not matter and are limited.
 * 13) The terrible camera: It's very awkward and limits your movement because most of the time something of the stage is blocking the camera angle, similar to this.
 * 14) Awful bloom effects that are too strong.
 * 15) Some basic stealth mechanics are locked behind a skill system like, being able to distract enemies and even regenerative health. If that wasn't bad enough, you have to further upgrade the skills so they're silent.
 * 16) *Speaking of which, some of the skills are broken like the teleportation since you can only teleport to certain areas, or the distraction since you can only throw a distractible in front of the enemies.
 * 17) Poorly implemented stealth as stealth takedowns make a lot of noise, but the enemies can't hear you.
 * 18) The graphics are horrid, and dull. What's worse is that the game dropped in 2013; GTA V came out the SAME YEAR and looks a thousand times better!

Reception
In the most negative review on the website, Andrew Reiner of Game Informer complained that "I’ve played a lot of bad Xbox 360 games for achievements, but hardly any are as unpolished and poorly executed as Dark. It’s easily one of this generation’s worst titles. Even when the stealth is working moderately well, the slow pacing is a killer, and no amount of blood sucking brings satisfaction. Most levels were completed through trial and error, failure after failure, and then success coming from exploiting an AI bug or an odd design decision.

DX included it on his "Worst Games of the Decade" video calling it "a stealth game that hates stealth games".

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