Reviews - Blood Enemies mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Mod is very simple, bad level design and only keys searching.

Horribly generic. A functional custom story alright, but no environmental sounds or music whatsoever (well maybe like 5 at most.) Extremely repetitive: enter area, monster might appear find key, open door find key, open door and that's basically the formula, no puzzle solving no nothing. Chapter 2 is more of the same and it's unfinished and makes absolutely no sense story wise. You'll finish these in under 20 minutes.

OLD REVIEW
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15th of August, 2015
Okay, so I played your custom story and I want to tell some things :)
-Ok mapping
-Ok story
-Maybe bit too much/too fast monster encourters
-Great atmospheric

Not bad, but you need ramp up a bit :)
I'll give you 6 :)
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Now as I've experienced myself more with this game, I can now make a more advanced review of the story.

Positives:
-You made a story
-Basic usage of the .lang-file

Negatives:
-Story was uninteresting. A fight between two politicians, who both wanted to be elected, was not interesting enough
-Mapping was most of the time very bland
-No music, no ambience whatsoever
-95% of the puzzles were key quests, and there were TONS of them

Story: ✕
Really uninteresting from the reason I stated above. 4/10

Mapping: ✕
There were some decent parts, but otherwise very empty and boring. 4/10

Scare factor: ✕
No doubt the weakest part of the mod. As there were no ambience and not any kind of a music, I never felt myself frightened even a small bit. All the monster encounters were easily known when they occur. 2/10

Puzzles: ✕
Very, very boring key quests. Few puzzles included the needle to be used, but the base idea was still the same- use it to get past locked doors. I was a bit happier when I saw you to use hammer/chipper puzzle. 3/10

Ambience / Sounds: ✕
No music was found in the mod, unfortunately. 1/10 :/

Creativity: ✕
2/10 from creativity.

Overall: This story was not the worst there is. But, it was not even a bit good either.
Overall score calculated lead to 2,6, which is just enough to get to 3.

3/10 - Bad

Good things:
-The mod spooked me a couple times
-Storyline

Bad things:
-(I agree with Kiralmmortal) The story is unfitting for the mod's surroundings
-Key quest after key quest...
-Bad level design
-Boring for the most part
-Could do with more oil + very dark in areas
-Rather short
-No music/not much ambience

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Storyline > For a mod like this, the storyline is a bit odd, just because it doesn't fit with the mod itself and how it all works.

Level design > The rooms are kind of bland, which in my opinion makes the mod kind of boring. Fill the rooms more, decorate them.

Lighting > In most areas, using a lantern was essential to see, otherwise you'd be wondering in the dark most of the time trying to find what you need. You should include some more lighting (windows/torches/candles) so you don't need a lantern all the time. Especially when you don't have much lantern oil.

Other > The mod was rather short for what it was, not including the time it took me to solve the key puzzles. You should put more effort into creativity. To sum it all up, you tried, but this mod bored me, and I had no need to replay it. Spend some more time on your mods next time.

3/10 Awful

Mapping: 4 - Very basic mapping, very dark or very light, no work at all.
Story: 4 - Standard story when you are locked in a mansion/castle, when things try to kill you and when you need to escape
Scripting: 4 - Picking up an item make a grunt spawn, wow
Gameplay: 2 - No puzzle or anything, you just pickup keys and open doors again and again, you pick up oil and you have no lantern...

I really can't give any higher score, I didn't find anything unique, just planned boring, repetitive as hell, find key and then another it's just pointless and gets boring really quick. Scares are cheap ones with jumpy ones.. don't do those because it really kills the atmosphere when playing mod and then quickly it becomes really lazy experience overall. Map design is really weird and small maps didn't impress me either, like those Dungeons, Cellars really rushed ones and too small to imagine this one to be "dungeon or cellar map" same thing with every each of the map what I played. Hub is really just long way with locked doors and whole playthrough is really boring and repetitive with key quests and cheap-*** scares, ugh.

Overall you really can do better and unique experience with rich detailing and unique ways to scare actual player. This is just rushed mess with really poor design with boring ideas and monster poofers aswell.

My experience and things what annoy me: (Just helping what you need to improve)

- Really bland beginning and after picking up key, monster spawned immediately
ruined my experience a lot
- Many poofers, nothing actual reason to spawn monster here and there
- Found extra key and didn't use it anywhere
- Found bug after going back to main hall if I didn't collect everything and go
back door is locked.
- Really boring to progress, just finding keys and I didn't enjoy poor and low
detailed rooms
- Not scary at all, couple stupid jumpscares with no reason
- No actual puzzles at all, just finding keys
- Bland atmosphere and I didn't feel one second I was really at danger and feared

I'm just helping with critizing a lot and writing critic review too. Not being harsh even if I sound like that, just try to improve, because this mod needs much longer gameplay and just exciting story with detailed map design, unique scares, puzzles etc. just spend time with a mod, don't ever rush it, you will get low score for sure if you continue doing that.

Good luck with your further projects!

3/10 - Repetitive key hunt with bland design (Not recommended)