Disappointed with AAMFP

[bluel0bster]

(http://jacobalbano.com/2013/09/disappoin...-for-pigs/).

Your link is dead.

Really, if the game had started with a long letter describing everything in the notes, followed by a rapid decent by elevator to the hearth of the machine (why isn't there a direct way to go there? Major plothole!)

Really? You'd have no problem reading out of context notes for an hour?

And what's wrong with no direct way to get to the heart of the machine? Why is that a plot hole?

If they had only been shown in their holding-cells I might have felt some genuine pity, but now if just felt fake.

They were.

There was no illusion of freedom, so immersion was broken. There were no choices, so there were no complex emotions or ambiguity, and no identification with the protagonist.

Immersion isn't necessarily tied to "illusion of freedom." There were plenty of complex emotions and there was plenty of ambiguity. Just look at the plot discussion thread.

That is exactly not what I do in real life: walking around with stretched arms with some item in it, because I know I will need it in the next room.

And the realistic, real-world alternative is stuffing everything pick-up-able into your pockets as you walk around because you might possibly need it? Inventory in TDD isn't realistic. AAMFP is.

I don't get why FG failed so spectacular with this game.

FG didn't make the game.