AMFP Member Review Thread

[Hunter of Shadows]

I'm not going to make any friends with this review, but here we go anyways

DISCLAIMER: This review is entirely my opinion, it is your choice to be offended or otherwise, I do not care if you are offended and will laugh at you if you choose to become offended by it



I can't say I was really surprised by this, but the game was compared to TDD, really really bad


The story was incomprehensible, the scares were bad, Oswald as bad, the mechanics were bad, and letting the the chinese room develop this is the source of all this badness, people praised Dear Esther, when in reality it was an absolutely awful game because it was so damn boring, and this has carried over to MFP's

I'm rating this so badly, because of how much of a massive disappoint it was compared to TDD, as pointed out by the Escapist's review, one of the reasons TDD was so scary was because you had to play around Daniel's fragile psyche, his was afraid of the dark, terrified of monsters, scared of this and that and the sounds he made reflected it.

But in this, Oswald has no fear of the dark, he is silent as monsters plow by his hiding spot, he makes no noises as he does gross things, in other words, he's a video game hero.

The stripped down mechanics also make this game even more dull and uninteresting to play, it felt like the only real mechanics were stealth, and hunting notes...and that's it.

I don't even want to talk about the story, TDD told it's story well, this didn't.

And the monsters good GOD, the two legged pigs were basically...pigmen from doom, and the other pigs were like dire pigs or something much akin to a dire wolf from fantasy, just a bigger meaner pig. There wasn't anything intrinsically horrifying by either of these monsters, especially since Oswald isn't really scared by anything.

So, bad game only worth it on a steam sale, thank you chinese room for ruining the potential of this by being YOUR USUAL, BORING DEVELOPER SELVES, if you were hoping for another round of mind melting terror like TDD, then move on and find another horror game like Outlast, it's certainly better then this garbage.

I'm guessing that people who have been here longer are actually playing the game and enjoying it rather than sitting here whining. Wink

I wish that was the case, but I'm smashing this game because of how much of a letdown it is