Klemens Koehring is the actor who charmingly portrays John ‘Poe’ Pope and Leah Cunard is the delightful Ellis Munro. ![]() Poe often professes his love and admiration of Munro to her in private, and yet he is a married family man that doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to change that status any time soon (to the disheartening of Munro). Unknown to their listeners, Poe and Munro are also in a secret relationship, but it is a bit of a star-crossed one. It would be a good radio show in real life. It is enjoyable listening to Poe and Munro’s witty banter as they speak to their listeners. ![]() The pair interacts with their often odd, sometimes dangerous and at times vanishing while on-air devoted listeners over the phone during their radio shows discussing such topics including listeners’ dreams and secret confessions. The town of August is also the name of the mysterious place where they live and where all sorts of strange events and supernatural happenings take place throughout the course of the six episodes. Poe and Munro are the hosts of a nighttime radio show called “Dark Nights with Poe and Munro” on the lone local radio station called Radio August. The game has six fully interactive episodes and about five hours of full screen full-motion video. Presented episodically, almost like a television series, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro follows full-time radio hosts and part-time investigators John Pope (Poe) and Ellis Munro through a series of mysterious and sometimes supernatural happenings. And it works fine on both last generation and next generation hardware. Now people can, as the game has moved to both PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Our reviewer loved it back then, but wished that she could play it on her big TV. We previously reviewed Dark Nights with Poe and Munro when it originally came out on the Steam platform. It’s developed and filmed by D’Avekki Studios, which is getting quite a reputation for games like this, especially ones that are both creepy and cool. Basically, this is another D'Avekki hit game that I will probably never stop referencing or wanting to discuss.Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is one of those narrative adventure games where real actors go through various scenes and at different points in the game players are given choices which the actors follow. ![]() Thanks to the trophies, it is relatively easy to explore all dark corners of the game. Koehring and Cunard play off each other wonderfully, building off character stereotypes from past films and fiction when the men were "manly" men and the women were "dainty" ladies. The gameplay is new yet familiar, with the developer mixing up how choices are made by going from text to video in a way that makes it perfectly clear how to play. The supernatural aspect somehow fits perfectly with the noir aspect. The noir feeling of the narrative means that choices aren't always delineated as "right" or "wrong", but, rather, a choice between bad and equally bad. ![]() It's a completely individual title that slides in nicely with what I shall, in the future, refer to as D'Avekki lore it can be played alone, or it can be played before or after the other two titles in the "series," but any way you play it, it's a standalone experience.
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