[SPOILER] Story Discussion

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Story discussion... let's update this great interesting thread.

That's well known that a lot of reviewers considered that Amnesia storyline is largely inspired by H.P.Lovecraft. For example even Wikipedia put Amnesia in a category: video games based on works by H.P.Lovecraft. What do you think about that in general? And what do you think in particular, is that statement fair or not? And another one question right away, no matter if Amnesia is truly inspired by H.P.Lovecraft works or not, is such an inspiration good or bad?

Inspiration isn't good or bad, it just is. You can't really control it, and usually if you try too hard it ends up being forced.

Anyway, of course it is H.P. Lovecraft inspired to some extent. Quick example: The concept of amnesia that's found quite often most notably in Shadow Out of Time, the story being told through letters and notes, the player being totally helpless against the monsters, etc. If it was heavily inspired by Lovecraft it certainly didn't reflect on the game itself, I think the "Lovecraft inspiration" gets overplayed way too much. "Lovecraftian" to me is the subtle atmosphere Lovecraft manages to create (that is present in Call of Cthulhu: DCotE) and Amnesia has none of that. It has a really thick atmosphere but it's its own thing. I consider Penumbra way more "Lovecraftian" but again, not really.