You step inside a life of a man who steals for living and is hunted by City guards. And who has lost his light in the darkness. His wife. Rikhard is a thief. He gets certain objects for his clients. But after the murder of his wife by a hitman hired by an angry man who was robbed by Rikhard, he got depressed and started drinking. Lost the house and moved to the miserable hideout in the allies. Not doing big jobs anymore, he's doing his living by picking pockets. But then, he wakes up to a knock on his door. A note left under the door inviting Rikhard to his house for a job.The note was sent by his good friend and a client, Thomas. This custom story is heavily inspired by Thief-game series.
The idea behind this mod is interesting, the problem is that the execution just wasn't great. Much of the gameplay is stealth based, with you sneaking around past guards to steal various items. The problem is that the guards are just the suits of armor from Amnesia, with slight modifications. This means that they can't move, and never really act like real people, so I never felt like there was any challenge to the sneaking.
Another problem is that there are invisible walls all over the place in this map, and many times I can't really see why. They just make the mod a little bit more difficult to play, and for the wrong reasons. There's other minor problems, such as a lamp that you cannot use, a complete lack of enemies (even though monsters are not mentioned), and some voice acting that occasionally gets drowned out by the game's music.
Still, in spite of this it does have some very good qualities. As I said, it does have a rather original concept behind it, and the atmosphere during some of the creepier parts is excellent. The problem is that there's just very little challenge to the game, along with some other nagging issues.
Theres no challenge to the sneaking, its not scary and not particularly funny with the bumbling guards. Its a mod trying to give us a unique experience with inspiration from the Thief games, problem is Amnesia's constraints are evidence here. Theres animations to the NPC's, they are just suits of armor that don't move or act. If you want to have a great thiefing experience then play the thief games and stay away from this ****. Theres other issues like the story not being particularly good, with the so called powerful monster being stopped by a lone thief, invisible walls and uninspiring level design.
Short interactive story with virtually no challenge. Is it good? Well, if you enjoy as I said, a short interative story, go for it, but if you're looking strictly for Amnesia content, then avoid. Also is quite buggy if you happen to rush through segments, sometimes voice lines overlap, or the camera gets stuck in a specific direction, so there were quite some oversights. I did enjoy it for what it was, but the bugs prevent me from rating it any higher.
I play it very long time ago but I always forgot to gives my reviews.
POSITIVES:
- Nice rpg style,
- First TDD mod where I seen dog in TDD. Nice !
- Long game playing,
- Stealth mode,
NEGATIVES:
- Not much scares,
- A lot of running to make mini progress in the game,
To be honest, if this is really inspired by the Thief series, it's missing the main point of the entire franchise, player-controlled sneaking.
The voice-acting is subpar, and often drowned out completely by the ambient music. Having subtitles would cure this problem, sadly, it's absent. Practically any text in the game has butchered grammar and bad spelling.
Forcing the player's view to every single group of guards undermines the player's capability to fail or be surprised by anything other than what's meant to be surprising. The entire story is unnecessarily linear with blockboxes harrassing the player at every turn and destroying any freedom the player has over the course of every mission.
All the while when trees are involved, these blockboxes are conspicuously absent. With the path not being very clear, it's easy to glitch into the trees and having to reload a save, or in my case, the entire story. For a second time, the first being when I accidentally crouched when meeting with my first mission-giver. Apparently, the game wrestled control away like it does in any "cut-scene", but there was no voice acting or progress for a minute, and I had to restart.
The guards are indeed, as they should be in any Thief game, blundering idiots who couldn't see in darkness for the life of them. But if that's all you've got going in the Custom Story that is supposed to remind us of Thief, then you'll need to replay the games and re-evaluate your mod.
Enemies don't move. The last time I played a Thief game, guards would chase your squishy thiefy behind through the streets to capture you. Instead, here, they stand still, being 'blundering' in their own non-comical ways.
Why haven't you just used edited Amnesia monsters to have a dynamic enemy, and then have the cutscenes/notes/text contain the humour? This could've been a lot better if the player had active influence, or even give the player multiple approaches to a problem.
This doesn't measure up to Thief in any way.
SUCH AN AWESOME CUSTOM STORY! THIS WAS PERFECT!
it doesn't matter if it weren't any scare.it was just to well done!
Oh my God! I loved this custom story! Thank you for making it.
I would have given it a 10/10 but there were all those invisible walls that was a pain in the backside and I didn't feel like I needed to sneak. I would like to have an element of fear so to speak. If the guards would chase you if they saw you or something like that.
THIS IS SO AWESOME! I love the ending.
The voices were too silent and that ruined everything. Please talk clearly into the microphone next time.
I finished this CS and it was pretty short to what I was expecting... and I didn't like it that much, it was boring.