Reviews - vikaniss

I'll tackle this review as a game that has nothing to do with Amnesia the Dark Desent, because not only is that a hard title to live up to (and it was just under the bar) I very much give credit to a game that holds its own. Before I do though, it did irk me that they took the name Amnesia without adding the classic amnesia traits such as insanity, tinderboxes, oil, picking up random objects and OPENABLE CLOESTS (my favourite hidding place!!) which gave the original game its extra "survival" feel.
The story definetly kept me enterained, unpredictable in its plot twists enough to keep me curious but not enough to get me annoyed and lost. The monsters were admittedly very scary (I will never hear a pig's squeal in the same way ever again. 0_0 ) the puzzles were easy enough for the detailer misser like me to get but didn't make it stupidly obvious and although I did find the machenery sound effects to be very garbled in layers and sometimes too much for me to listen for monsters properly, the soundtrack could be very pretty (and creepy as hell)
Overall, I do believe that Frictional games should have taken charge of its own sequal completely and although mfp had a tricky time living up to it's precessor, I can give a hats off for the Chinese Room for making an horror game which still embeds fear into those who play it.