Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

[Pablodius]

Damn dude, I love it! All that would fit perfectly
Now that you mentioned it, I got the idea that maybe the little boy in the teaser is someone who died because of Mandus, and he is having hallucinations, etc.

Also, 'the machine coughs, roars into life'; now what could that mean if it was metaphoric?

Whoa yes something else just came to me. Think about what we know so far from the previous amnesia games - Daniel, Justine: each time, the protagonist had administered the amnesia drug to themselves for some specific purpose.

Mandus wakes up, and hears the machine coughing and roaring in to life - it seems like he has timed this perfectly. What is it that he needs to accomplish that a) requires the machine to have begun working and b) requires him to have lost all recollection of making the machine in the first place?

Could it be that he knows he needs to destroy his re-incarnated family, and knows he wouldn't be able to bring himself to do this if he knew who they really were?

As you may have guessed, I personally don't think the machine itself is a metaphor (at least, not solely a metaphor). Consider the quote from the end of second trailer:
"There are surely not enough pigs in the whole of London to feed the appetite of such a machine."
"That all rather depends, professor, on what one considers to be a pig."

Here it sounds like Mandus is referring to something very specific, not just a vague allegory.