Those are available as a talent tree, where you can only buy one talent only after you purchased previous abilities lower down the tree. Depending on how you kill the opposition, you get points that can be spent on buying new demonic abilities, moves and weapon upgrades. Two conventional arms that can yield one or two weapons, and two demonic arms which can grab, slash and cut the enemies. With the demon, Jackie has quadruple weapons set up. If this sounds all confusing – it's because it is confusing, but the story is delivered well with impressive cut scenes and conversations that almost makes it logical in an obscure and cunning way. In the other corner stands The Brotherhood – who wants The Darkness for themselves, and an imaginary asylum to which Jackie digress as a possible alternate reality. Needless to say that some motivation is needed, and Jackie hallucinates that this demon – The Darkness, can help him unite with his murdered girlfriend Jenny. Here comes Jackie – a mobster, who is possessed by a demonic entity that haunted his family for generations – and this demon is trying to emerge back into existence after Jackie managed to keep it repressed for a while. 8/10 ABSOLUTELY PLAY THIS GAME.ħ0% PCThe first Darkness game never came out on PC and while some narrative is given about the story’s background, the first scene throws you into what feels like a confusing and uncharted territory. Overall a great game with some control issues. Gratuitous violence, nudity, smooth combat, perfect length. The real shame of all this, is that this game is absolutely fantastic, an absolute BLAST to play through. If you don't slash in the direction PERFECTLY, you will miss, and the enemy will be on you like white on rice. The directional slash with the tentacle is also a nightmare with the mouse as you have to be absolutely PERFECT with your directional movements of the mouse. Custom mapping can help alleviate some of it, but it will never be perfect and it will always be awkward trying to remember which key to press for a certain attack. In the end, it's a real shame the controls are so convoluted on keyboard and mouse. Maybe there was a better way to map my keys and I just didn't find it. There's a strong argument in the favor of this game being better on a joypad. In the end, I decided to just grin and bare the controls on keyboard, forcing myself to use each of the attacks occasionally, which got me killed plenty of times. Each attack is perfectly mapped out on the joy pad, however, this obviously means you won't be using a mouse to aim, which in my opinion, is a deal breaker. Playing this game with an Xbox 360 controller makes the tentacle controls a LOT easier to manage. It can be extremely complex and likely you'll go through the game not using some of the attacks as it can be overwhelming to remember every key. I remapped many of the controls for the tentacle attacks and switching guns. The only real problems I had with the game are the quad wield controls. You'll get around 10 hours out of this if you play on the hardest difficulty, maybe more if you aren't used to shooters. 80% PCThe epitome of "hidden gem", The Darkness II is an absolute treat.
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