"I just wanted happiness. I just wanted a normal life, with no restrictions, with no one telling me what I have to do. "It wasn't my choice at all. Yet, it was. When I look back at those times, the times that brought me joy and incredible sorrow, are now the center of life. Why can't I get over it? My love may be gone, but my love will never die."
I would say that games are more like Narratives than any other medium, and the least like movies, movie conventions don't work in them.
This mod to me was more like a short story really with voice acting and a game environment. The advantage is you get to read other peoples letters which gives insight but than again you could put those letters into a novel...
The story does fit into Amnesia because Amnesia may be about horror, but it gives alot of room for stories about dreams/hallucinations and the main character was in a sort of dream re-living moments.
The trick to making people feel what the characters feel is by placing us in their 'moments'.
It's easy for a story like a love story to become sappy, its when you linger on those moments or reminiscing about them for to long, at the expense of character development and other things.
Theres no NPC's in Amnesia so without faces its all about the voice acting... this mod has good voice acting even from the side characters that play only a minimal part. This mod avoids sappy by giving us a proper introduction and what the characters feel and do before the love comes in.
But at the same time its a poor mod because its doesn't capitalize on a video games strength: interactive story telling and choice.
Invisible walls, linear path with key hunting to the next door, its all putting us in a leash.
You can put us in a leash but you can't make us bark. In other words, make us feel. The mod didn't make me feel but I will say it was a good attempt at it.
The story tells me, its bad to linger on the past.
And you shouldn't correct mistakes or punish evil unless it's beyond a reasonable doubt.