Yahtzee reviews Amnesia

[Mjarr]

All in all I liked Yahtzee's review but it always makes me laugh how you guys are all so scared of this game, and I, a girl haven't been scared at all, and yes I played "Alone in the dark".

Congratulations, you can officially label yourself with balls of steel now. It's not like everyone is pissing their pants and crying in terror, but once the hype comes out how it does something right it often tends to be overblown. It's same with almost any typical horror game, even when it's mostly shooting ugly things that growls like no-one ever loved them as a child. People get scared (either legitly or just brief startles) -> word goes out -> ZOMG SCARIEST GAEM EVAR -> repeat until the hype dies out or people realises it's just another one of those peekaboo ghost scares you did when you were 5-8 and playing in the dark.

The very definition for being "scared" is bit loose end, as you can be scared for the time of few seconds if something really unexpected comes out that simply triggers some interesting reaction from your end, or you could just freak out and lose it to the point you'll lose control of your bowels. Ultimately it doesn't matter what your gender is, if you simply didn't get freaked out or scared that much, then you didn't. To be honest most of the time in Amnesia you could avoid potential scares by basically using what could be referred as common sense, what is mostly retained in any form of (real) amensia. Of course since the game's Amnesia is caused by artificial means I still have a reason to believe that even when Daniel's life is on the line he probably would know how to do pre-emptive stuff to avoid being ambushed, atleast most of the time. That is up to the player though

However as for your "not having weapons is an annoyance", the problem with the concept of weapons in more horror based game is often that either you can blast everything to death and lose the potent of having enemy enemies around to begin with, while making them piss poor renders them useless and even greater annoyance. Not having weapons plays more on player vulnerability on the basic level, that someone is out there to make kebab out of your lovely chest and you bet your arse it will do it faster than you can blink your eye if you give it a chance. What makes it only bit 'disapointing' in Amnesia is that generallys peaking hiding in places is somewhat too obvious to the point few looks at teh enviroment can give you a hint if something's going to happen. Once in a while there are areas in which nothing happens but merely plays on the thought, so due to its passive-aggressive nature it's not that bad of a thing to add extra kick in its own ways. Reaction for the system on the other hand is mostly individual in terms of how much it actually adds atmosphere.