Disappointed with AAMFP

[cantremember]

I agree it was a mistake to remove interactivity.
Since you don't get to shoot anything, exploring chests and drawers and throwing boxes around to find tinderboxes was a big part of the gameplay, aswell as managing lantern usage & tinderboxes. With this & the sanity gone, the gameplay is gone aswell, the game only consists of walking around & pulling levers to open passageways.
With the terror and the whole game being blurry by just even looking at monsters added to their mystique and horror.
Penumbra didn't have it but it was implemented differently, eg. the monster's torch lighting the doorway before it came in & the blue haze meaning you were more hidden.
In machine for pigs, it's just gone and the puzzles are too simple (replace a broken object, pull some levers to open secret doors, etc)

The mansion at the beginning is really boring for these reasons. I knew monsters wouldn't come in the beginning, and with all the doors and drawers being untouchable, despite it being a big area, I was gone through it quickly, and solved the puzzles quickly since the items you need to pull simply show a "hand" icon.

Don't get me wrong, a machine for pigs is still an interesting game, but IMO it doesn't surpass TDD and I consider it more to be an add-on rather than a real successor of TDD.