Disappointed with AAMFP

[Cuyir]

On the Shadow versus Machine argument:

Spoiler below!

Fyi, after the London chase scene (when you have to sabotage The Machine) you can see hanged bodies (like how they hang cows and such at slaughterhouses) being taken from somewhere, burned and then moved down the line. By starting it, Mandus went through with his plan of turning everyone into pigmen/women and the already existing beasties went looking for people (ie all of them). Before they (Mandus and The Machine) only kidnapped a few and experimented, making sure their processes worked.

It also seems to be trying to kickstart itself from time to time beforehand, which is a sign that it's somehow sentient. If that's not creepy, I don't know what is. The Machine behaves differently than the Shadow. The Shadow was very Lovecraftian, while The Machine was just all the evil in Mandus (personal interpretation) given ''life''. Both were menacing in their own ways. Personally I stopped thinking about the Shadow a little bit halfway through TDD but I kept thinking about The Machine all throughout AMFP. That moment when I realized that all those slaughterhouse-like processes you kept hearing about were referring to the treatment of humans was chilling.

Personally I wish the Shadow was given a bit more time in-game. It seemed to only serve as a writer's mechanism to force Daniel into the castle