Reviews - abominable37

Absolutely without a doubt the greatest Amnesia custom story. I want to write a long review but it has actually been almost a year since I last played it so I don't remember it that well.. I just know I felt so invested and enveloped in the story. There wasn't a moment that I felt like some "trick" was used to overcome the limitation of the Amnesia engine. It all felt very natural.

I only had 1 tiny hiccup that could almost be my fault, and that was when I needed a rope and I had picked up the note and looked away too quickly and spent 10 minutes looking for the rope... doy.

Other than that, absolutely perfect.

I honestly thought this mod was quite original. It made use of something that hasn't really been done too often, and that is made the character play without weapons, and just solely solving puzzles. If you're really into puzzle games then this will certainly make you happy. I had several moments where I was spending a while trying to figure out what to do until I finally had that Aha! moment, and that always felt nice!
I didn't have many issues with the game play but the maps, I am sorry, could have definitely been worked on. Clearly your attention to detail is there, there are plenty of physics objects set in just the right spots and it makes the puzzles much more overwhelming when you first enter a new room. The lighting could easily use some work, play around with using lights in conjunction with light_spots to make for interesting lighting, and don't forget to make lights match their models. No such light in this world creates a perfect white stream of light, make it a little off yellow or off blue. The texture choice was a bit strange, and the lack of HDR kinda ruins a lot of things for me... You used the Ep2 Engine but didn't make use of HDR!
The only thing that bothered me about gameplay I'd say was the bits where you would spend a lot of time looking for the way out when you just had to find a key, primarily in the Kastle area, the key was unfairly hidden, it just didn't feel clever like the other puzzles, I basically ran around and mashed E until I picked it up! It was a great mod idea and concept, but the execution could have been better, but definitely don't stop modding, you certainly have something here!

Quite possibly the most goofy/interesting/entertaining/original mod ever.

It's goofy because the dialogue is always funny and the character models are just plain silly looking :P It looks awesome though the contrast between the realistic architecture and then the goofy as hell fish people.
It's interesting because the game is actually very simple, you solve puzzles, and you look around at the pretty architecture. The puzzles are always easy to spot because of the awesome B&W surroundings compared to the important stuff that is actually in color.
It's entertaining because the sense of humor is really great and it definitely adds a lot to the game! I definitely had several laughs playing this game!
It's original because I never thought I'd be solving so indirectly. I did play as Water of course, but I also spent a lot of time controlling other people and I thought that was incredibly original. The RPG style turn based fighting parts were hilariously new and definitely never-before seen in an hl2 mod. I feel like this as potential to become an entire game on it's own, it's a shame it's so short (I give it ~2 hours gameplay time)! Great jobs all around, perfect mod!

While this mod could have had potential to be brilliant, it really does lose a lot from the gameplay. The game is incredibly long which is awesome! (Most mods are really short) But I feel as though the actual game is just run around like an idiot and continue to make wrong turns until combine soldiers open a path for you. I don't feel like I'm playing the game, I feel like I'm under puppet strings being told where to go. The game is also unbelievably difficult... I played this on hard and the soldiers do as much damage to you as you would to them, and you die way too quickly. There is very few ammo/health pick ups in the game sometimes and other times you get overloaded and it just feels silly.. I feel like it could have been a little more evened out. Also one major problem is some times the cutscenes really mess up your game... I had one instance where a soldier was attacking me when I began a cut scene and he killed me during the scene... I was dead and the game wouldn't reload, so I had to go back to my previous save (which by the way was 15 minutes earlier..) and watch the long cut scene again. Which brings me to the next problem of too few save points. All in all the game is fun, and without a doubt certainly challenging, but I feel like it could have been polished a bit... The maps were really great for the most part, and the custom models were also really interesting. Good job, I'm sorry I couldn't give a better score, there was just too much that took away from this mod for me!
Thank you for spending so much time on this map, and making it certainly unique, and one to remember, I will attempt to finish it (however difficult it may be ^^) because I am quite interested to see the ending!

I could spend years playing this. Enough said.