AMFP Member Review Thread

[SurvivalHorror]

Won't be making friends with anyone with this review, but its gonna be an honest one. Having played many survival horror titles such as outlast(best game in this genre right now), all the penumbras and the first amnesia, I was really looking forward to this game, wondering if TCR could surprise me. At the least, I expected it to be as good as the original, but what did I get for 20 bucks? A compulsive desire to sign up on this forum to express my disappointment and maybe warn others.

Storyline-Reading many of the reviews here, people go so far to say the story rivals that of bioshock infinite. But IMO, that's an insult to the latter. Maybe I've got it wrong but all I got from it was That Mandus was slaughtering people in his house in order to save them in his twisted mind. And come on, we knew the children were dead from the start. This gave diminished purpose from the start as the whole goal was to save your children while the player knew the children were dead. towards the end, the game just felt like a drag as well. but perhaps I wasn't patient enough to grasp it, and I'd give the story 5/10 largely in view of that consideration, but to me, nothing special here.

Gameplay-This one was really poor for me. Diminished object interaction, repeated "puzzles" if you could call them so? Bugs, lack of inventory, rigid movement(compared to outlast, perhaps unfair), lack of hiding places and need to actually hide make this a really disappointing experience. 3 years and they churn out something lesser than the last game. I would give this 3/10. Considering I consider TDD a 7/10

Horror-I'm gonna outright say this. 0/10. I really felt that TCR had failed before they even started when they began to choose pigs as the monster in the game. In the few encounters I had with the pigs, I didn't feel threatened at all, walking up to them and even inspecting them closely the first time. the atmosphere which made TDD such a trailblazer in its genre was totally absent. Totally! I mean what the hell? make a horror game without chase music or even the scary music which is present throughout? The TDD had few encounters but the music made it a terrifying experience. Overall I was hoping the scares would deliver something despite initially being skeptical of the pigs, but I was left empty handed. The adversaries you encounter in this game don't fill you with fear, you just sidestep them at walking pace and continue. Sorry but this really made it feel like walking simulator 2013. Shocking.

Summary:Overall, unworthy of the Amnesia title which is the only thing keeping it selling in the first place. Repetitive elements, lack of atmosphere and poor choice of enemies make this game more annoying and frustrating(crashes anyone?) than enjoyable and terrifying. Put this here, turn this switch, repeat, game ends. Perhaps if you play purely for storyline this could be classed as an average game. Survival horror? You'd be more scared of how they convinced you to actually buy this game. 2/10.

Having said that, this game could have easily got High ratings had they stayed true to the amnesia experience, and it is all the more frustrating that this didn't happen.given the 3 year gap between the first game and this.