AMFP Member Review Thread

[Dash213]

ok, i just finished the game (took me 7 hours) and here are my thoughts. mind you this will contain spoilers so if you didn't play the game don't read any of it.

first of all, while i am not part of frictional games and don't know any of it's devs, i think if i were frictional games i would feel ashamed after reading some of these posts, they completly miss what frictional games is trying to deliver in their games (again, my opinion). i played all frictional games's games and the idea they try to deliver is story and immersion over action mechanics, i mean what about no weapons in black plague? same as getting rid of sanity meter and inventory for me.

i will agree that in the middle the story seems kinda mendatory and simple but it gets way way better the more you get to the end. the writing is obviously better and the story is great in it's own way, diffrent from Dark Descent but not any worse. also the voice acting was superb.

the scary stuff, it had less jump scares then the last amnesia but the ones that they do have were really good and surprising, i espacilly liked the electric pig (that guy is damn fast) and when they teleport you twinstingly. there was also the part with avoiding the pig guy which was really good, you had to hide in the dark and close your lantern and it was really fun and scary hearing him sniff (the number 1 sound effect of all time)

the level where the pigman are taking over london was also a testament to the imporvments of the engine. the levels with the rivers of blood were really great ("i think now i understand what the other component of compound x is"), and the idea of a machine god created by a madman and works on steam and gas felt like taken straight from a h. p. lovecraft book (the inspiration for frictional games's every game). also the pigmen as kids playing and with cubes or being chained to walls in cells really made me feel for them, i tried to open one of their cells multiple times lol, was a better monster design then those of amnesia in my opinion.

lastly, it feels short in the beginning, until you realise it has 3 more hours after the "ending". the game is great and amazing in a diffrent way from amnesia, and thats great in my opinion. redoing the same thing is one thing you don't want to do. getting rid of obvious mechanics like inventory or sanity meter and replacing it with ingame mechanics that do the same thing, like close lantern when piggy is near and hide in shadows.

the really scary stuff are sometimes not the jump scares or whispers in the background, it's the story and the ideas of the story, inhuman creations that were created by humans. a god made out as a machine, and loads of blood as a vital ingredient of the enemy. it's really like reading one of h. p. lovecrafts greatest books and i think it's a testament to how the chinese room dealt with this game.

9/10