Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

[FlawlessHappiness]

Maybe the monsters will always kill you with one hit so there's no need for medkits or laudanum. This would make monsters even more dangerous.

I really hope they don't do that. The whole reason the monsters was scary was that they didn't do a full 100% health damage to you, so if you got hit once your screen would go red, making you realise you were going to die (but hadn't yet) causing you to freak out even more. If you were wandering around and then all of a sudden one appeared and you got one hitted, it'd kill the atmosphere for me :/

Did the brutes destroy the atmosphere for you? They can kill you with one hit, you know.

Exactly. If you are killed the immersion is ruined, though there need to be a threat.
You need to stabilize the threat so it's possible for the player to survive, and still having the threat