Alas, A Machine for Pigs can’t hold a candle to The Dark Descent. The plot is good, the atmosphere is still sinister but all the fear is gone. Instead of a bone-chilling survival horror, we receive a casual adventure game. How causal you ask? The inventory and the sanity meter are gone. The lamp you’re carrying would never cease to work. The realistic physics are still present albeit they’re limited – you can throw every chair around but you can’t break bottles, lift random items etc. As for the puzzles, I’ve seen more challenging ones in action games. Enemies are not even half as frightening as those in the first part. The pig guys are almost cute and when I encountered one for the first time the game didn’t even allowed it to kill me. Still I liked this game. The interesting story and the dark mood were enough for me to enjoy Amnesia: A Machine for pigs in spite of its many flaws.
