Disappointed with AAMFP

[DamnNoHtml]

I doubt he cackled with a top hat as he said "I'm going to say this game will be as scary as Amnesia and then lie about it bwah hahahah." The problem is, since the game is on the same engine and 99% of us have played the Dark Descent, we are more desensitized to monsters and scary events in the game. We know if the pig catches us, "oh, we just restart 5 seconds away and the pig vanishes, woo."

That's where I think TCR could have done something better. Make a real penalty for getting caught by an enemy. You need to condition the player into being terrified of being caught, whether it is something like playing loud terrifying noises, flashing scary images, even something cheap like that. As long as it conditions the player to be scared to be caught, you've done the job. There was none of that in A Machine for Pigs.