My Impressions...to the victor goes the SPOILERS!

[ploppytheman]

I feel that Penumbra was a 9/10 and Amnesia was an 8/10. The characters and story for Penumbra were so wonderful and real with Clarence and Red being especially well done and of course Philip himself. There wasn't enough story although a great great amount of horror/atmosphere and just superb sound (as well as graphics) in Amnesia. I had to stop playing Amnesia twice due to the extreme horror, although I don't remember stopping Penumbra.

I really think being forced to trap/kill a monster is MORE scary than just avoiding them. In Penumbra you have to lock one of the Hivemind in a room by leading it in after it that horrifying scene... I mean wow that shocked me so much and was so freaky. The enemies felt a little less scary since they just seem to go away.