AMFP Member Review Thread

[felixmole]

Well, I think AMFP is pretty great, but I miss the good ol' chases TDD-style where you had to make barricades and the monster kicked in the doors. In this game you hardly get to do it, and when you do, the pigs only bang into the door only once before vanishing... It is too bad TCR didn't think of doing chases just like the old game, because I think that's the very reason many people were disappointed by the game.

The levels are gorgeous and very detailed, the music is exquisite, it remains psychological horror as the monsters' presences are revealed by the flickerings of the lamps around and especially Oswald's lantern. I liked that they decided to make the game very linear to change from the former game; TCR was very smart as to make some doors pop up or disappear depending on how you progress. I don't care about the inventory and interaction, as we still can interact with a few elements such as chairs and obviously the puzzle objects.

So, as I said, TCR should have put more encounters like in TDD. AMFP's terror meter is barely noticeable and so is the chase music! They should have put more complex puzzles in the exploration part so that the game would have lasted longer and some players would have found the begining less dull.

It is too bad that they didn't introduce these few elements that I think would have made the game better from the first opus as a survival horror game.

I'll rate it 8.5/10 because other than all of that, it's a very fine work, I can definitely see they worked hard on it, and the story and the telling of it are way better than those of Amnesia: TDD. Makes me want to try out Dear Esther.