Reviews - Final Revelations V.3 mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

I'm sorry to say I have just about nothing good to say about this custom story. I didn't even finish it because it was so bad.

-First off, the English was so bad that it completely ruined the story. I don't understand how some people say the story was so amazing, when there wasn't much story at all, and what story was to be found was entirely ruined by the awful grammar.
-Voice acting. Normally I would give a plus to a story for at least having it, but in this story, the only word I have to describe it is "horrific". The audio quality was bad, to the point where even when I was "talking" to an NPC, and not just listening to one of the various recordings, I felt like I was communicating with a pathetic excuse for a robot. Not to mention that the voice actors all spoke in just about a perfect monotone, and couldn't even pronounce basic English. (Seriously, "treatment" pronounced as "tret-ment"?). I don't know who that female voice actor is who did the voice for Elizabeth, but I've heard her work in other custom stories, and this was just as bad, and left me cringing every time I heard her voice. Overall the voice acting did nothing but jar me from the story and remind me at every moment that I was very definitely playing a game. The only voice actor who did a good job was the person who voiced Alma. Her delivery of her lines was excellent, with proper emotional expression, and the audio quality of her sound files was excellent.
-As I said, I didn't even finish the story, but the lack of monsters was a major problem for me. I didn't encounter a single one in the portion of the story that I did play, and I'm not going to count that dog in the tunnels, because it made a five second appearance and was absolutely no threat to me, and there was no reason to go anywhere near it.
-Most of the unique aspects of this game, like money, side quests, and the day-night cycle, were pointless. It seemed like the developer came up with great ideas and then put virtually no effort into actually making a good game with them. I found virtually no money despite a meticulous examination of every map. There were minimal sidequests, all of which proved to be overly complicated (I spent half an hour looking for the flower for Alma in the shop and didn't find it), and even misleading (trying to free Michael-the game said use a heavy tool to destroy the padlock, but there was no hammer or crowbar anywhere in the map that I had seen, so I spent several minutes dragging the big mallet across THE ENTIRE MAP from the torture room just to find out that it was the wrong tool and didn't do anything.) The day-night cycle was also poorly done, as there was very little to do in each cycle after the first two. After that, it was literally "grab an item, go to sleep to change to day, open a door, get a key, go to sleep to change to night, get an item, "But-oh-no we-can't-get-access-to-that-place-at-night" so it was back to bed to change to day, get into the new area, get an item, find out I couldn't access the new area that the item would open up during the day, so it was back to bed to change to night. And then after that, there was pretty much nothing to do with the day-night cycle.

Overall, I felt like this story was a waste of my time, and I really don't understand what compelled other people to give it such a high rating. If you want a good custom story that has good length, go play something like "The Great Work", "Lost the Lights", or even "The Things in the Night".

This mode is HUGE and it's not really good thing because locations are big and empty, walking long distances is boring. Village looks totally dead. All puzzles have no unique touch. It took me to complete 8.5 hours on steam. It has it moments but overall pretty cheap quality, especially voice acting.

As this is one of my first Amnesia mods I've played, its hard for me to give comparisons. I do recognize the amount of effort you have put into this mod and how different this mod is compared to others. However, I feel that this is an exercise in futility as you repurpose horror assets into tasks they weren't meant for. It gives a very inconsistent tone in atmosphere.

Tl;DR = A in effort, F in execution

Very awesome for a custom story! Moreover, it is quite long. I don’t know English and that I can guess what the plot is about, but I liked it for the atmosphere, voice acting and the interesting location!

This is probably in the top 3 of my most favorite non-covertion amnesia mods, just fantastic work, switching between story and scary parts , pretty good noise acting as a whole , it made me feel like I was playing something not like amnesia at all at some points and thats an amazing feat. Polish this one up a tensy bit more , and I cant wait to see what you'll work on next

Loved it! 2nd playthrough and a good ending! voice acting was kinda poor but otherwise masterpiece

Finished with this excellent story- took me around 9 hours to finish this excellent mod.
There are lot's of positive things, and a few negatives also. The negatives did not affect the gameplay that much, so they don't count towards the score- most of them were small things which are not that important.

Positives:
-Awesome storyline
-Terrifying atmosphere in places it was supposed to be, and also everywhere else
-Mapping was excellent- very few flaws in the whole mod
-Very, very long
-Best puzzles I've ever seen in Amnesia
-Tons and tons of creativity
-NPC characters
-Buyable things / sleep / music and other nice small things
-Easter eggs
-Very well made jumpscares- all of them got me good
-Lots of good music
-Some humour too

Negatives:

-Suitor was annoying, because of its line: "If I can't have Mary, no one will." I heard that half a hundred times while playing, not joking
-So little oil in dark areas. Due to the darkness my sanity went down and I had to play with that annoying delay when you have the "..." sanity- was little annoying
-Village area was pretty empty, but what can you actually expect? Village afterall
-Voice acting existed, but it was painful to listen at some parts

Story: ✔

Interseting, complex storyline with lot's of plots and characters. Very good and hooking overall! 9/10

Mapping: ✔

The village area was empty-ish, but like I said, what could you except?

All the areas were great, but there were also parts which were better than great. I'm struggling between 9 and 10 so I give 9,5. 9,5 / 10

Puzzles: ✔✔

No doubt the best puzzles I've ever seen. So much creativity and huge variety of different items to use. Optional quests too, and.. I just can't explain. Better than fantastic, so 10+/10

Scare factor: ✔

In the scary areas which were supposed to be scary, it was god awfully scary. In some of these scary areas it was not that scary, but otherwise- very scary overall.

Also the jumpscares- couldn't get much better. Some of them are so unexcepted / some oh them were so scary that I shouted few times xD. So good job on this too! 9/10

Atmosphere: ✔

Variety of scares, ambiences and music made this story to have unique atmosphere of its own. Good!! 9/10

Overall:
One of the best mods around, no doubt. Amazing and lenghty experience every amnesia player needs to experience- new player or veteran, whatever.

Thanks from this amazing mod!

Score: 9,35 = 9/10 - Awesome!

An amazing experience from the beginning to the end

Easily one of your best creation. A new and original story, side quests, living npcs, easter eggs, this shows that you worked really hard on this mod. I love how few of the characters in your previous mod (Alma, Isaac, Michael) is referenced or appeared directly in this story, also each environment is unique. The village, the dungeons, the mines. The soundtrack is also nice. Despite that, the voice acting could've been better (I know you hired free voice actors and not all are superb). Overall, a really good CS definitely want to play it again

One of the best custom stories I have played. Great job!