Out of food, water, and ammo, you (the last remaining of your group) leave your underground bunker out of desperation in search of salvation. You will start out weak with low sanity. Your bunker is littered with the corpses of those you once knew. Contains custom binaural (3D audio) samples.
the running quickly out of oil is terrible, can't see anything
without it it would be another great CS
Interesting idea. This mod had a few nice sequences with the 3D audio but everything else is simply average
Very scary!especially where a naked guy crawls on the ceiling to creepy music!
trash, the music never want to stfu
Eh, it was okay, however there was a lot of copy/paste jobs here, i like the new mechanics to make it more challenging, but exploration feels pointless if you just burn through all your materials that quickly. I did enjoy it though, even if it felt I "wasted" a lot of time, heheh
I have to admit, I created my account specifically to review this amazing custom story. To start off, I did like the tweaked sanity and oil burning rates, which I thought were very well done.
I should say here that atmospheric horror has very little effect on me. It might seem cheap, but most of the time, if you want to get a reaction out of me, you have to jumpscare me. This mod, however... Without giving anything away, let's just say that the "event" in the Library left me more terrified than I have ever been. Between the music and the general execution of the event, the hair on my arms was standing up and still is ten minutes later. Nothing has ever scared me like that, and I absolutely love it. I can't wait to see what else this story has.
Edit: Okay, just finished it, and even though it was a lot shorter than I expected and ended rather abruptly, I still say it's a perfect 10 out of 10... Absolutely amazing. "Scared out of my mind" would hardly be an exaggeration to describe what this CS did to me. I'm still getting chills through my arms because of it. Absolutely amazing work.
This is my opinion and I is a story fanatic
First I didn't really understand what was going on. That was what really drove me to keep going (finding out what was going on). The scares were slightly below average not too great, not too bad (people have differing "scare reaction" so to each his own)
The level design was strange to me I didn't know why how was where and who was which?
There was no context-from what I could gather-so I was lost at the start and at the end.
Now I loved the sounds/music it got me hooked, that "binaural audio" thing didn't really catch my attention at many parts.
The new mechanic(the lantern thing) was a gimmick i really liked and would have made me conserve oil more-only if there wasn't many oil bottles everywhere. The sanity thing was also creepy and contributed to the atmosphere.
So the gimmicks and the sound are practically the only things I liked in this story.
That's it for me.
The mod has potential, but unfortunately, it's not fully used.
Let's focus on good sides first. The atmosphere is really quite nice - scary, almost no jumpscares, some nice ideas. However, it's also not the horror of the original - I feel that some locations are too big to feel overwhelmed and really scared, but it was good nonetheless.
Level design is decent - sometimes maps are too big, sometimes are rich, but lack some final touch(so many empty drawers, who needs them?), sometimes there's little logic behind room placement, and sometimes it's just too big.
Lights are sometimes unnatural, but overall reception is okay.
Music is also great. Atmospheric use of the music makes it really noticeable and improves the experience a lot. Good job on that.
Also, good work on bringing some new ideas on how to scare the player - some weren't as scary as they could be, but they were interesting and deserve to be appreciated.
However, there are also downsides; lack of storytelling being the biggest pain - there are few notes, but they are scarce and don't explain anything. You don't know much why you're doing this, what was happening there, and why you and monsters are there; this could take place in the old castle and there wouldn't be the difference.
Binaural audio: it sounded impressive when he told about it, but he only said the one sentence(at the very beginning), and the rest wasn't really noticeable.
Quest: when I finished the game, I was surprised. "Is that it?", I asked. I expected it to be bigger than that, whereas the game just "ends". No outro, no explanation, no nothing.
Physics and minor bugs: Once I got locked myself in the room I shouldn't be able to go into and spent some time trying to get out. The door bounced like they were in the disco. It was sometimes annoying.
Linear: you can't choose whether you go to A or B first, because there's no B, only A.
Lack of final touch: these are minor things: sometimes you try to open few doors, but you only get note on one of these doors, and the character somehow knows where the door leads. You also don't get the notification that you need the key or for whatever other reason are the door locked; you have to figure it out yourself. Plus, lots of unused space.
No puzzles: there is only one puzzle in the entire game, and it's dead simple that you could almost say that it wasn't a puzzle.
Unbalanced sanity: On one hand, you have fast burning lantern. On the other, you have tons of oil, laudanum and sanity potions - yet character loses sanity really fast, and it becomes pretty annoying when you don't want to(nor have to) lose oil because you just want to go somewhere, but you're passing out due to low stamina.
Overall impression is quite good though; the mod isn't the best, but it isn't the worst; it is better than many others, and you can play it - sometimes it gives a good scare, and isn't too long, so you might play it. Not Amnesia 2, but I would recommend it for some of the ideas.
This mod is how mods must be made.
Its pure psychological horror.
Earie atmosphere, disturbing music.
Better play it with headphones to maximize the fear effect.
The oil and the sanity mechanics where tweaked to drain faster and you are forced to travel by dark a lot of time, plus the maps are big enough to be almost lost in total darkness.
Really impressive what this mod achieved.
The only drawback its that lacks a deeper story and that is too short.
Nice CS :D
Very nice and scary custom story with a brilliant 3D Soundsystem.
Nice Idea ! ^^