AMFP Member Review Thread

[bluel0bster]

I could spend hours critiquing all y'alls complaints, but I'm not going to bother in the slightest.

I'd give aamfp a 9.5/10. Absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. The narrative in this game even surpasses TDD's. The soundtrack and audio design was top notch.

The only real complaint I had was not having sanity effects/sanity meter; there was no real reason for me not to sit in the darkness until monsters pathed away.

People need to realize this is a different development team with a different design philosophy. TCR greatly emphasizes phenomenal narrative, as obvious in Dear Esther. This carries over to AAMFP. Just because the game doesn't have something that its predecessor has in terms of gameplay doesn't make it a worse game in any respect. That's not how you judge a game. The narrative in AAMFP is incredibly deep and thought-provoking, I found it to be one of the best story lines, rivaling bioshock infinite and even the original bioshock.

I really like how TCR approached the Amnesia series, and the idea of seeing how other developers approach Amnesia is an appealing idea. Along those lines, I'd like to quote Kotaku's review with respect to outside developers, "What would a Mojang Amnesia game look like? How about if Stanley Parable-maker Davey Wreden got to make one? Or Lone Survivor's Jasper Byrne, or Gone Home's Fullbright Company? With this template, a series like Amnesia could become less a continuous franchise and more of a philosophy, batted about and re-interpreted by the creators of our age."