Disappointed with AAMFP

[padme]

Next up is story. i did not understand much of the story during my playthrough of A Machine For Pigs, so I will soon play through it again to hopefully get a better understanding of the world. I did miss voiced diary entries. There were the playbacks, but those were more a replacement for most of the flashbacks. Why do I miss diary entries read aloud? Well, I simply feel it enhances the experience, hearing the entries written by the character in his very own voice. The situation and emotion might become stronger (it would for me, anyway), and there is a whole lot more emphasis. Lastly, I think it would make the story easier to pay attention to, for many player. I was dragged more into the story in The Dark Descent when my character read his own words aloud.

I'm still playing the game and I agree with this part. The voiced diary entries in TDD were really good and they kept me stuck. And also it was a way to know if the entry was important or not, it was important for the story.

Now in AMFP there is so much text that sometimes I just skip parts of it. And I'm starting to dislike the notes, they are distracting. For example, in the church, I picked the candle and an entry was added to the notes: "Yep it's a candle". Oh thank you! I stopped the game just to read this? Annoying.

And I really miss the oil from TDD, it was some kind of way of telling to the player to use the lantern wisely. Now what's the point of turning it off?

I think the critics to AMFP are deserved. TDD was far from a perfect game but it had good ideias that could be very much improved but they were dropped instead.