Research on "who" you felt like in Amnesia

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When I played the game for the first time I felt like everything had happened many years ago, and that I was reliving the horrors as a different person. In the same way that some of the early letters are written about events that happened months/years ago, I read all the letters like that. So while I was experiencing Daniel's horrific story, it didn't feel like I was re-living the experience as Daniel.

I think to some extent I was also expecting a game about my character going crazy (the "descent"), and so I wasn't sure if what I was experiencing was actually happening - particularly the monsters.

I was, therefore, surprised that Agrippa was still alive, and was addressing me as Daniel. But even after that point, I felt that I was experiencing torture that happened, not that I was responsible for it myself. The stuff I was expecting to come round the corner and kill me was rather more of a concern.

I have since enjoyed replaying it many times "as" Daniel though, now I know the full significance of the letters, the torture sounds and the crying girl screaming "get away from me".