As The Dark Pictures Anthology celebrates its fifth anniversary, here’s why its first entry remains its best | Gaming

I’m not sure if it’s my advancing age or the literal pandemic that arrived hot on the heels of this game’s release, shattering (perhaps permanently) our collective ability to accurately perceive the passage of time, but I really can’t believe that The Dark Pictures Anthology has been around for half a decade already. Man of Medan still feels like a new-ish game to me, so the realisation that today marks the fifth anniversary of its release is a sobering one.

Of course, there are now four Dark Pictures games out there that you can play right now — five, in fact, if you own a VR headset — and we recently caught a long-awaited glimpse of the series’ next core entry at Gamescom ONL. It’d be pretty unreasonable to expect Man of Medan, as the franchise’s debut, to be…