Disappointed with AAMFP

[Fortigurn]

Again, upon reading interviews and such, you'd see that they were toying the mechanics, as in, changing them. They never promised the exact same experience. The mechanics aren't the same because the game emphasizes story instead of survival.

1. Pinchbeck (February 2012): 'Pinchbeck explained that The Chinese Room tried to look at protecting the sense of it being an Amnesia game and really belonging to the design template that was set up by its predecessor'.

2. Pinchbeck (March 2012): 'I think the challenge for us is how do you retain the core kind of experience of playing Amnesia but have some new Inge [sic] going on in there that means you can't just settle in and go 'alright, I know how this works, I've done this before''.

3. Frictional (June 2012): 'Hope you'll enjoy the first peak [sic] at what AAMFP (http://aamfp.com) is shaping up to become'.

4. Pinchbeck (October 2012): ''There’s a definite case of 'don’t fix what isn’t broken''.

5. Pinchbeck (November 2012: 'It’s fairly true to the spirit of the original game'.

6. Pinchbeck (March 2013): 'I think this has ended up more of a natural successor to [Amnesia] Dark Descent than we ever thought it'd be'.

7. Pinchbeck (March 2013): 'Originally, we thought it'd be this halfway point between Dark Descent and Esther, but in a lot of ways, it's much more like Dark Descent'.

6. Pinchbeck (August 2013): 'Our initial hope was to have a game that was a cross between Amnesia and Dear Esther. As the project grew and got to be more than we initially thought it would be, it has turned to be more towards the Amnesia type of game'.

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The Machine is a living slaughterhouse. When you learn what it is and why it was built, you realize that its movement means death. Sure, it's vague in the beginning, but so is the Shadow in the beginning of TDD (and still is at the end).

Yeah but by the time the player comes across it, the Machine isn't killing anyone. Firstly it's out of operation, and even when the player activates it, the Machine isn't actually doing any killing. The conveyor belts are empty, yet inconsistently there's an occasional torso on the hooks, though the Iron Butler isn't carving anything up. There's also buckets of blood flowing here and there at various intervals, for no apparent reason. But the Machine is otherwise non-functional, and isn't killing anyone.