Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs

They made this it's not that good as a horror game. Music is nice, puzzles are ok, the monster 3/10 and annoying too

Gameplay : 1/5 You have literally nothing to do. No health bar, no inventory, no resource management, no platforming, etc. The game lacks every component an horror adventure should have. Of course you also have no weapons to fight your enemies. it is just a glorified walking simulator. Also the levels are totally linear, nothing to explore. Music : 2/5 The music is creepy and makes you feel uneasy. So it does it job. But it is too loud and they overuse it. The whole game you are tormented with the "danger music". Which makes you believe that the next jumpscare or enemy is just about to happen. Unfortunately it gets old really fast, and then it is just annoying. Atmosphere : 3/5 The only saving grace for this game. Its atmosphere is dense and creates a horrifing world that you just want to escape somehow. Graphics : 2/5 The game shows that it had a limited budget. Outdated graphics and poor visual effects. It is still okay for an Indie game. The enemies : 1/5 Often time these horror games have frightening foes, that will stay in your memory for long. The alien in Alien : Isolation, or the Nemesis in Resident Evil games. In this case, your enemy is a mutated walking pig! It is not scary, its A.I. is horrendous and it poses no threat at all. It is just annoying and you wish you could just kill it to end its misery and spare you all the annoying future encounters. Story: 1/5 unfortunately the story is also dull and boring. Presented only in form of letters and diary entries you couldnt care less. For me it was pretty annoying to read a whole page of cryptical nonsense. I just left the letters on the ground after a while because i didn t wanted to be bothered to read a long text again. Some dumbed down frankenstein story about creating pighumans. Price : 1/5 Sorry the price is too high, only get this Indie game if its on sale for less than 5 euros.

I got to say, i was not a fan of the whole walking-simulator genre, and i'm totally not a horror kinda guy, but Amnesia: The Dark Descent was a great game! It made me like the genre and was fun and challenging with the sanity system and all that... A Machine for Pigs, sadly has nothing left from the first one, except maybe some assets and that it's a walking simulator... The story was boring and bland, and the overall gameplay is boring... you walk around, reaaaally slowly, and retrace your steps some times, slowly... but as you delve deeper into the game, there's no actual challenge, the puzzles are way simpler and the enemies area almost not present, and when they are are easily circumvented... there's never that gnawing feeling of the shadow from A:DD All in all, it's a boring game, that makes me want to have amnesia and forget about it...

I was very disappointed by Amnesia 1 at the time. It failed to scare me, and besides the alleged scariness the game had absolutely nothing else that made it worth playing. So I am very happy that Amnesia 2 is very different. The Good: - Meaningful, moving story. - Sometimes truly scary (as opposed to part 1, which never really scared me). - Much more interesting world: the fascinating underground machine works a lot better than the super-generic castle in part 1. - EXCELLENT soundtrack. - Annoying and pointless sanity meter from part 1 removed. - Great and satisfying revelation at the end. - Exactly the right length. The bad: - Technically not very good engine. - The scene in the streets of London is kind of superfluous and does not really fit the rest of the game. - The writing would have profited from a little more polishing. - The gameplay is as dumb as in part 1 ("find the place where the game wants you to click next, and then click"). The bottom line: Does the game have something so unique that you should play it? For A1 the answer was a clear no. For A2 it is a clear yes. Is anything about the game so bad that it would make it difficult to enjoy that unique thing from the previous question? For A1 the answer is a clear yes (bad level design; story that's so nonsensical that it feels like it comes from a random generator). For A2 the answer is a clear no. Ergo: Play A2 and avoid A1.

Though it had a good story, just as dark and twisted as the fist, it lacked gameplay. You pretty much just walked down a very obvious path and solved the extremely simple puzzles. Monsters did not feel threatening at all. This would have been a killer addition if they could recapture the magic that made Dark Descent so great.