Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Nyarlathotep]

I'm playing Slender: The Arrival It's an excellent game, guys. Buy it!

Nah, it's really short and it's just finding 8 things 3 times, the story's good, but not well presented. I had a better time watching let's plays with ten extra bucks in my pocket to be honest

Don't get me wrong here. I think the game is bad, in its current form. But my complaints have nothing to do with its length or the variety of gameplay.

The game is short, but there's no problem with that. It's cheap, it's made to be played in one sitting for a full experience. This kind of thing is great for horror games. I think it would only lessen the experience to pad out a horror game just for the sake of it.

The game has some great visuals and it is scary. Honestly, I'd say it had me on edge just as much as some of Amnesia's best moments.

The problem is, where Amnesia creates an illusion of challenge, Slender provides too much challenge. To the point where you'll be dying and forced to restart an intense level 10 times in a row. It stops being scary and then becomes frustrating.

This is, mainly just the third level for me. I've seen plenty of others with that trouble, too. Before and after level 3 though, the game is pretty great. Just that level and an easy to encounter bug in level 4 really drag the game down. If they get patched out it could be awesome, though.