It was okay

[Jashin]

Fair enough, Dark Corners is the most similar game to Amnesia. I could've said Thief but that wouldn't be true.

Dark Corners is hard, I'll give you that. I had no problem with it except for the hotel escape sequence for a little bit, and I know a lot of non-Thief-playing, "action" people would have mild to major trouble with it.

Amnesia on the other hand is very easy. The monster doesn't active search for you. I think it's a good entry point to this type of games, but once you learn the extent of the npc beahavior like stealth games before this have achieved, to learn and adapt, sometimes even exploit with tools to create emergent scenarios... Well you get the idea.

I wouldn't go so far as do what the other guy did and jump on the desk to taunt the monster with books and stuff, and therefore effectively "breaking" the game. I did play the game the way it's intended to be played. It's just, well, a hefty majority of the "fear" the game tries to elicit is from the same humanoid monster stalking the hallways, and it's not reeaaally that scary. It's an endowment of the tired slasher trope, where the fear is in the unseen, and once it's seen the fear ceases to be.