. scream like a little girl whenever a monster spawned close by?
Only Once
... boast to others that the game wasn't that scary only to shit your pants shortly thereafter?
Nope. I was clear to my friends when they asked about it - I found it truly terrifying, is what I said.
... at any point have to quit the game to give your heart time to slow down and/or your hands to stop shaking?
.....Yes....
... die more than once - because you were killed by the same monster?
Nope
... regret that you turned the handle and allowed a certain someone to talk to you?
No, I liked Agrippa
... feel too frightened to open a door, because you thought a monster might be on the other side?
In the Prison. *shudders*
... feel too frightened to pick up what you had come for, because you knew a monster might spawn?
Actually, no. I picked up everything as soon as I saw it. If my brain hadn't been ffked up by fear, I would probably think that.
... pass out from low sanity while waiting for a monster to disappear?
In the Prison a couple times. Turns out, the monster had disappeared and I hadn't realized.
... pass out from low sanity while hiding from a monster that wasn’t even there?
See Above :3
... attempt to flee from a monster only to run right smack into it?
Yes in the Prison when after you retrieved the rods and are going up the stairs to leave. I thought it was behind me. Biiig mistake!
... jump off the window ledge in the study, just to see what would happen?
Yes. I thought it would be funny.
... jump off the window ledge in the study and then laugh like a maniac when you died from the fall?
I didn't laugh, I just said "Oh. Note to self, I CAN die from falling off"
... spend a few minutes giggling insanely as you threw various objects into the vat of acid?
As my brain wasn't working, I never tried.
... pick a hiding spot and realize too late that it wasn’t a very good hiding spot?
Yes
... play through the game multiple times only to find out to your
unpleasant surprise that things were slightly different that time
around?
Actually, yeah. The second time, I noticed MANY MANY things I didn't on my first play through.
... go back to an earlier save and play an area over again because it was so damn much fun?
The Storage, pretty much so I could get my friends to play it.
... frantically try to stop the elevator when things started to go south?
Yeah, I was trying to pull the switch up and down and up and down but nothing was working!
... curse the Shadow six ways from Sunday when it showd up and ruined
the sanctity of the Back Hall? (Bonus points if you did so in more than
one language. XD)
Yep. I blatantly said "Fu*k you!"
... curse the Shadow six ways from Sunday whenever it showed up and made
your sanity go from "Slight headache" to "omgwtf I'm dragging my face
along the floor!"?
In the end before the Inner Sanctum is the time this happened, but no, I didn't curse it a second time.
(If you played Penumbra: Overture first...)
... walk into the Refinery and think: "This isn't the Refinery."?
I played the Penumbra's afterwards, so NOPE.avi