This was a memorable experience. The game starts out in a room and you can't leave until you take your medicine that you misplaced. You have to think logically as if this was real life. Almost everything in the room can be manipulated. The game drops you in and doesn't give you a long tutorial or lead you by the hand. It's a streamlined experience all about the atmosphere. Thick rich, deep atmosphere! Incredible sound, foreboding music. Tension. Forget about a backpack full of inventory, it's streamlined. You push forward and pass each section mostly carrying just one item or using whats in the immediate area. Having just completed it, I have the following to say about the monsters, the puzzles and the pacing. Yes I've played amnesia (loved it). This is slightly different. The monsters in here are just to mess with you and scare you, they get progressively scarier as you go deeper in the game and the areas get darker and harder to navigate. There was one genius part where you have to reboot a server that has a timer clock, you sneak past a monster and push the button but then you can’t just hit the button and run, you have to hit a manual confirmation switch while the monster comes back to chase you. This was nerve wracking and intense (a few good sections like this). Though there was ONE monster scene that I must admit was not intuitive. You literally have to run away from the monster to escape. Puzzles are not bad, I wasn’t stumped at all once I got the gist of how the game wants me to play. This is a tense horror game, very interactive and you will make heavy choices before you reach the end. This is not cheesy silent hill stuff, this is questions of ethics, the dark side of human nature. Highly recommended – Don’t worry about multiple endings, it all ends up in the same place, don’t worry about just running past a monster to get to the next section. I loved it and will remember this game for a long time.
