AMFP Member Review Thread

[Edrioth]

This game was unfortunately a huge dissappointment. As an individual game it was "nice" at best but as an Amnesia-game, it was an utter failure IMHO. I had waited for the release of this game for so long and the expectations were very high. Albeit overall I think the game failed, I do appreciate some aspects of it.

I think the further I got in the game, the more it failed. At the start of the game, everything seemed promising but towards the end I felt quite annoyed. The story was quite good and the graphics were very very nice as always. So what went wrong? As so many people have already said, this game was a walking simulator by thechineseroom with some pigmen thrown here and there. There was no gameplay, no interaction. Only straight forward walking and clicking on things. Therefore, no feelings of accomplishment! The voice acting was superb, I will give thechineseroom that.

The encounters with the pigmen. Oh gosh, what can I say. The pigmen weren't scary at all in my opinion. The AI was bad and there were too few encounters and even those were very mild. Not horrifying.

I think many people will disagree with what I am about to say right now but here it goes: the soundtrack was bad. I know this is just about personal preference so what can you do. In the previous Amnesia and in the Penumbra -games the soundtracks by Mikko Tarmia were a major part what made those games for me. The soundtrack in AMFP just couldn't wake up the terror in me. I am a composer myself too so don't get me wrong, it was not badly composed or anything. Just not a soundtrack for a horrifying experience.

From what I wrote, you could draw a conclusion that I hated the game but that's not true. I actually somewhat liked it. It wasn't a bad game. It was a bad _Amnesia_ -game. Of course people are going to compare it to its predecessor because it has its name on it.

I gave this game a 4/10. If this wasn't an Amnesia -game, I would probably give it 7/10.

Describing the game in one word: Anti-climatic.