When The Darkness first manifests, you'll get a glimpse of its full power, as it takes over Jackie's body and mutilates a Mafia hit squad. Once you're back in contro🉐l, though, you'🎐ll have just a few basic powers, although you'll earn back the rest of them as The Darkness powers up over the course of the game. The only catch is that The Darkness powers up by eating human hearts - which, as it turns out, is extremely gruesome (but endlessly satisfying), as one dragon head tears the love muscle out of your dead enemies and then messily gobbles it while staring at you.

In return, The Darkness will protect you from bullets, aಞs well as enable you to send out one of its heads as a tentacle (gooꦗd for exploring tight spaces, crawling up walls and performing stealth kills), and that can last for a pretty long time as long as you keep it out of the light, which drains its power. Later on, you'll be able to send out a whip-like tendril that can impale and grab enemies, enabling you to effortlessly slam them around or just hurl them into the air for your own amusement. It's also good for grabbing random objects - garbage cans, dumpsters, and even cars at its highest power level - and either stacking them in creative ways or bashing enemies to death with them, which makes for some hilariously creative opportunities for murder.