"Take the script, they said, it'll be fun, they said." Voice lines in Dead by Daylight aren't a common find, least of all once you've loaded into a match, but Nicolas Cage is the exception to the Entity's rules in more ways than one.
As I instruct the actor-turned-DbD star to crouch down and mend a generator, carefully minding his snappy red suit in the process, I tilt my camera up by accident. Nic Cage is face to face with The Onryo, and what does he do? He screams. I hit the A button while running, hoping to get a speed buff, and after half a second of high-knee jogging, what does he do? He screams. Dead by Daylight's newest Survivor and his meme-able perks are already shaping up to be a fan favorite on day-one of his public test build debut, and not only because it's hilarious to watch him fake his own death. I didn't have it on my 2023 bingo card at the start of the year, but Nicolas Cage has just rescued Dead by Daylight from its sophomore slump, and it's an absolute relief to see.
