Opinions on how TCR & FG are dealing with AAMFP criticism

[Alardem]

All this talk about the blue filter confounds me. After the mansion, the filter disappeared for me and the darkness was pure black - a shade far more unsettling than even the blackest moments of the original Amnesia.

To be fair, this blue filter returns in the ending, which can justified by the frozen nature of the area. But the sewers, the interior of the Machine, the underground segments? Couldn't see a damned thing.

Looking back I really wish it wasn't in the mansion or street level because that was one of the most atmospheric parts of the games really since that's where all the pacing is.

Spoiler below!

It was in the mansion, streets, church (kind of annoyed by this one because the church was a highlight of the game), and a few other places underground like in the level where you have to get 2 chemicals and mix them together. The area's it wasn't in where usually tense unsafe areas so you couldn't really soak in the atmosphere as well as you could the safe rooms, which is why having it in all the safe areas kind of was a bad move.

Might be my poor graphical settings, but the blue filter disappeared once I went under the church. I don't get your point about the dangerous areas being the darkest parts - SURELY it's more unnerving when you rely on the flashlight in the sections where the pigs try to get at ya? You seem to be favoring the ambient lighting at the moments where it's least necessary.