-Amnesia: The Dark Descent Short Review-
The story is really well written, telling a classic horror tale with clear inspirations in HP Lovecraft, that remains dark, intriguing and terrifying until the end of the game.
The lighting, art direction, and especially the sound design are phenomenal, and combined they managed to create a dense and suffocating atmosphere.
In terms of its gameplay, the sanity system and lighting as a gameplay mechanic are the most interesting and remarkable things about the game and they are well integrated with the rest of the gameplay elements (resource management, enemy design etc.)
Unfortunately once you discover how the main enemy in the game works (the one who appears the most throughout the whole main campaign) he becomes predictable and easy to manipulate, and he stops being a threat to become just another obstacle. Although this only happened to me in the last third of the game, once i had already played almost 7-8 hours of the 12 that the game lasted.
Additionally, the puzzles and level design through most of the game are complex but fair, but on some occasions they can become confusing and obnoxious.
With all of this said, even though the last third was weaker and i had problems with some puzzles and levels, most of the game was an interesting, terrifying and well designed experience. I recommend it for all fans of the survival horror genre.
-FINAL SOCRE: 8,5-
I completed this game on normal difficulty and I played the whole main story until the end. I played it for 12.5 hours.
The story is really well written, telling a classic horror tale with clear inspirations in HP Lovecraft, that remains dark, intriguing and terrifying until the end of the game.
The lighting, art direction, and especially the sound design are phenomenal, and combined they managed to create a dense and suffocating atmosphere.
In terms of its gameplay, the sanity system and lighting as a gameplay mechanic are the most interesting and remarkable things about the game and they are well integrated with the rest of the gameplay elements (resource management, enemy design etc.)
Unfortunately once you discover how the main enemy in the game works (the one who appears the most throughout the whole main campaign) he becomes predictable and easy to manipulate, and he stops being a threat to become just another obstacle. Although this only happened to me in the last third of the game, once i had already played almost 7-8 hours of the 12 that the game lasted.
Additionally, the puzzles and level design through most of the game are complex but fair, but on some occasions they can become confusing and obnoxious.
With all of this said, even though the last third was weaker and i had problems with some puzzles and levels, most of the game was an interesting, terrifying and well designed experience. I recommend it for all fans of the survival horror genre.
-FINAL SOCRE: 8,5-
I completed this game on normal difficulty and I played the whole main story until the end. I played it for 12.5 hours.