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Seriously, it's a bit hard to rate this mod.
There are some interesting points about the gameplay.
But it's confused. Some hint (mementos) can help a bit.
Running on every place and run backwards is really frustrating.
I'm sincere. I stopped to play in the map with the grass.
Totally lost, I do not any idea how to progress.
I died tons of times but the monster is easy to cheat, and it's not scary at all (seen millions of times)
Some cutscene are nice, but this is not sufficient.
Rooms pretty empty.
Game forced in some event.
Not clear, very confused.
I wanted to do a high rating than this, but this time, not.
5... + 1 for the creativity.
6/10 : enough
Make more!
Positives:
- Creativity
- Awesome cut-scenes
- Often nice scripting
- Good voice acting
Negatives:
- Sometimes, the level design is good, sometimes the textures (like in the parking lot) are so low-res it looks like I'm playing doom. Same goes for everything else. Sometimes very well looking, sometimes less so
- The first level broke for me twice (read further down in "bugs")
- It's way too dark, especially at the first quest in the second level
- Many of the quests are really tedious, and going back because I missed an item is also really tedious
- Monsters found me ridiculously easy and killed me in one hit. This isn't necessarily a problem, but for me it was since many times it was unclear where I was supposed to go
Bugs:
Every mod can be glitchy, but when the game has gamebreaking bugs twice or more, I have to point it out.
First, I died by the grunt in the first map. I respawn and so does he. He tries again to break the door, but the door bugs out and refuse to open. I reloaded a previous save and this time it worked fine, however the exit door couldn't be unlocked this time around, forcing me to restart yet again.
Story:
Not that unique but kept my interest thanks to the well made cut-scenes and voice acting.
Quests:
Tedious, confusing, miss one item and you have to backtrack a lot. Overall, the quests could have been better if you ask me. It's also soooo dark it was hard to see where I was supposed to go from time to time, especially at the first quest in level 2. I think I died around 10 times before I managed to get down without dying.
And why does the grunt automatically give chase after a certain time, even if he never sees me?
Scripting:
No doubt the strong part of the mod. Well done there.
Conclusion:
I played another mod made by you almost 3 years ago, and gave it a 5/10, and this ain't that much better :/.
It seems to me that the problem is: you are getting water over your head. You don't have enough skills to pull this off, because I can tell you right away, the scripting is amazing just like it was in your other mod, but the level design is so inconsistent, the story is average at best with (fortunately) good cut-scenes and voice acting, the quests are so tedious and it bugs out way too easily, with annoying backtracking if you miss something.
Overall, it's average, despite the bugs, because you show a lot of creativity and amazing scripting skills, but that's all the mod really offers, and after seeing a bunch of youtube videos of this mod, it seems like im not the only one that finds this mod confusing and tedious at times.
5/10 - Average
I couldn't even bring myself to finish this custom story. For a number of reasons which I'll get to in a second, this custom story is probably the worst I've played so far, which is a dissapointment for me.
The nummber of bugs, the small size of each section, lack of mementos, the vagueness of the walkthrough which I tried to use BECAUSE the game itself was vague in telling me what the hell I was supposed to do. Well, it was either vague or explained in such a way which didn't make any sense.
Sure, I could watch a let's play to see how I should progress further, but it shouldn't even get to that point. When not even the game nor the walkthrough explain in good enough detail what you're supposed to do, the score will drop by a lot. Let's not forget the bugs, as I said. Numerous bugs which had me restarting from the beginning or from an earlier point. Please bug test your custom stories, mod makers.
The only good thing about this custom story is the music and the subtle humour in the cutscenes which may or may not have been intended.
I must give props to the author because he came up with many MANY new ideas, but which ultimately fall flat because they've been poorly executed.
One last complaint is the story. Again, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but Jigsaw, or rather, Billy, doesn't act like the wise criminal he is in the movies, but rather as a mad murderer who kills for fun, which I didn't really mind but felt like it has to be mentioned.
Conclusion: After getting fed up with trying to find NEW sources on the internet which would tell me how to progress, I ultimately deleted the custom story. If it weren't for the numerous bugs I would've probably gave it another chance, but as it stands now, I feel it's a rather weak custom story.
This is the most unique custom game for Amnesia that I have seen so far.
It's very challenging and almost mean the level of Torture the designer puts you thru.
I was plagued by several bugs in the first two levels that messed up saved games when exiting. This forced me to find a earlier saved game file to proceed.
I'm giving a 6 rating as I think the designer did a really great job of making a extreme challenge Mod. some of the Map art work is truly awesum.
I think it's too hard for some people and they give up and give it a very low rating.
Even with the walk thru posted it's still hard to complete a couple challenges.
I actually gave up on the last level challenge in the swamp.
Maneuvering Two different long planks in the dark to get across the swamp was too tedious and frustrating for me.
I always hated the Water monsters in Amnesia and this mod combines that with a very tedious and hard task in the end.
It was at this point in the game that decided i just didn't see the reward in continuing this madness in frustration. I had stopped enjoying the game play at that point and it was time to move on.
The water area where you have to use planks to avoid the monster is extremely hard and impossible to finish. The mod is way too hard in general. Otherwise, it's well made.
10/10!
2 fps but still good