An audio-visual mod to make Amnesia: The Dark Descent look and sound like a PS1 game.
This is rock! Feels like you are playing some 3d games on PSX :)
Nothing much to say. The mod does exactly what it says and even more.
There are the most noticeable changes like the shaders, the fog and low render distances. Which very convincingly simulate the PS1 era graphics. But what I really like are the small touches like the fov, the hand model not moving, the downsampled sounds, bigger fonts, the startup splash screens and the startup sound of the PS1 console, changed menu screen and so on.
But the best thing that nailed the mod and really put everything together is the soundtrack. It's just amazing. It's really well done to the point where I have some of the tracks in my music playlist. It uses sounds very similiar to the ones that were used back in the day, it sounds really nostalgic and most importantly you can still tell exactly what song has been remade, staying very true to the original.
Overall 10/10.
Easy installation, does what it has promised, runs great, it's really polished and the amount of work that must have gone into it is above impressive. Good job.
Gave a sort of silent hill/resident evil/dino crisis first person vibe.
the mod does what it says, and it does it with perfection. 10/10
I've had so much fun with this mod.
The music is reminiscent of games such as Dino Crisis, Silent hill, and Resident evil to name a few. I was presently surprised with how well the music sounded which also added to the PS1 aesthetic.
I played the main game all the way through with my only issue being the floor warping way too much. The textures would stretch out of proportion when I looked forward and walked around. I fixed this with a reinstallation and the guidance of a YouTube video.
In short, I highly recommend giving this mod a try if you like the old gen horror aesthetic.
Very original and perfectly manages to be what it claims. The "remake" of the OST is amazing, and I love all of the bitcrushed sounds and pixelated filter and texture warping. You did amazing work here.
As good as it is though, the blue filter replacing the insanity effect is incredibly distracting and annoying. If your sanity is anything below Crystal Clear, you have a permanent blue VFX blocking your view which ruins the experience rather than benefitting it.
I also find it upsetting you did not create custom themes for the Brute and Suitor. Brute has a different patrol theme, if I'm not mistaken, but the exact same danger theme. Suitor just uses the Grunt's.
The very low FOV does not add to the experience, it just makes it nauseating and headache inducing to play. You added some even lower resolution textures than vanilla Amnesia has, but it seems you didn't finish doing that because only a small handful of things look downgraded and it clashes with the more higher resolution textures.
FINALLY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY
The custom shaders pack that this mod comes with is incompatible with the most recent version of Amnesia. Areas are extremely dark and it's impossible to see anything. I've had to swap around many shader files from vanilla amnesia in order to get it fixed, and I wish I could've seen what it was originally meant to look like. Luckily, other than the lighting, all the other VFX are here. Weird pixel bloom filter, texture warping, some other thing - However, the texture warping and the "other thing" are completely incompatible with custom stories which is very disappointing... Meaning I have to disable/remove the both of them. At least the pixel filter tied to Bloom is compatible with custom stories. Just a filter.