AMFP Member Review Thread

[Damascus Rose]

Do all players need to be spoon-fed their visceral horror onscreen? I found the content of the very well written notes to be far more horrifying and disturbing than anything depicted visually in The Dark Descent (or Outlast for that matter). A Machine For Pigs mostly relies on the player absorbing the atmosphere and the content of the notes and so letting the player's imagination come up with the visuals, and that to me is far more involving than anything any graphics artist can come up with.

No, definitely not. But can you accomplish actual horror only by using cryptic notes? Sure they were kinda effective to make you uncomfortable with whats going on, but it just felt they they were a tease. You never got to see any of the actual scary stuff from the notes (or from the trailers) happen in the game. The notes show you what will scare you, then the game doesn't scare you. In TDD they showed you what would scare you then they did. My imagination can only scare me so much when the game doesn't even try to show you anything scary itself.

I only brought up outlast because the stuff they showed was pretty fucked up, and they obviously could've put more stuff like that in AMFP, it's not like it was 'going too far'.