The writing, oh the writing ........

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Just have to say how much I love the writing in this game - Dan has done a really tremendous job with the dialogue and the notes. Really outstanding.

Very much agreed. The first Amnesia was clearly built with the game mechanics in mind, the plot added in relatively late to the production, built out of gothic horror tropes and Lovecraft references. A great game, to be sure, but not a terribly original story. A Machine for Pigs on the other hand was built with existing game mechanics, so the developers could wholly focus on the storytelling, and it shows. Thechineseroom managed to produce true existential horror with this game.