I'll be honest, I did enjoy the remake of Alone in the Dark with David Harbour. Even though Harbour comes across a pedofile in real life, he seemed to be a decent pick for Carnby. I wasn't sure how well he would do given it seemed like an odd choice, but he brought some everyman appeal to his performance, and surprisingly he did not sleep walk through it. It made it decently enjoyable especially because it had the slower paced gameplay and more grounded combat mechanics I've been craving out of a game for a very long time.

That being said... the game makes it obvious it stars the uncomely hag playing Emily Hartwood, and boy is she portrayed as insufferable. It would have been better had she been played as a bit more of an uppity, posh, frightened English lass, because it could have increased the scare factors being put into her shoes, but the actress playing her just comes across as the typical snarky, self-aware type that we get in every kind of modern piece of media. Really detracted from an otherwise okay experience (the atmosphere in the game is done well, and the environment artists did a great job bringing the locations to life even though they're limited in scope).

Anyway, it's a shame we don't get more games with the actual gameplay of Alone in the Dark or that recent Evil Dead game that was made into a stupid asymmetrical multiplayer title -- I wish we had an Evil Dead game with those more grounded and fluid combat and movement mechanics, but with a linear story line Alone In The Dark, would have been right up my alley.