The Swine are Rising! In 2010 Frictional Games terrified the world with the cult horror Amnesia: A Dark Descent. Now they bring you a new nightmare. Created by The Chinese Room, the studio behind Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an intense and terrifying journey into the heart of darkness that lurks within us all. The year is 1899. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus awakes in his bed, wracked with fever and haunted by dreams of a dark and hellish engine. Tortured by visions of a disastrous expedition to Mexico, broken on the failing dreams of an industrial utopia, wracked with guilt and tropical disease, he wakes into a nightmare. The house is silent, the ground beneath him shaking at the will of some infernal machine: all he knows is that his children are in grave peril, and it is up to him to save them. Step back into the horror.
In all honesty I was really hyped up for this game since it was the sequel for Amnesia: The Dark Descent but it did not live up to the standard I had for the game.
There are a lot of things that are better then The Dark Descent, such as the graphics, setting, story, etc.... I do feel like these were good things but I feel the story was so heavy focused on you forgot about the GAMEPLAY.
I was thinking that this was going to be one of the scariest games out there but it does not come close at all. There are hardly any monsters to run from and you guys took away some of the key features of AMNESIA. Such as collecting oil and having to maintain that oil so you can keep using it. This game just lets you run unlimited lantern which made the game so much easier and less scary then what it should have been. Also the puzzles are so simple I feel like no one should have trouble with them, half of the stuff is right in front of you that it is nearly impossible to fail at any of them. Also why is darkness not a factor of fear anymore, I thought the bugs eating away at the brain was perfect but you guys also stripped that away in A Machine For Pigs. Also the AI need to be fixed, there were alot of times where I was standing 2 feet from them and they never tried to chase me.
I hardly feel like this is the sequel to the original let alone a horror game. I wanted to be terrified, I wanted to be constantly screaming, I wanted AMNESIA.... I can only hope you guys will realize your mistake and make it up with a DLC.
7/10 is actually really nice of me to give this game for a rating. I don't know about you but I am severely disappointed with this game.
If you want to watch The Ending or Part 1 the links will be below.
Part 1: Youtu.be
Ending: Youtu.be
Amnesia A Machine For Pigs is definitely a good game, but in my opinion it could not meet the expectations (which honestly were way too high to be met anyway).
The points I enjoyed the most were the Story, it´s pacing, the setting and the absolutely gorgeous sound.
The main things that I did not enjoy were the missing interaction, the low difficulty level and the absence of the sanity sytem. Though I understand that too much interaction may distract the player and too difficult puzzles may get the player stuck I think that putting in some more moveable objects and just increasing the difficulty a little bit would not hurt the gameflow and intensify the immersion a lot. Even worse the missing sanity system and ressource management are two big points that made the enemies less of a threat and therefore not as scary as they could have been.
Nevertheless I enjoyed the game :)