Amnesia The Dark Descent

Warning 
, massive spoilers ahead also this game is down right spooky so yall been warned….if u wanna stay then awesome …If u don’t then oh well see yah…..here’s the trailer

Let’s get the rating out of the way, overall I absolutely freaking love this game it’s downright horrifying….there’s a reason why it’s considered a classic in the horror genre, there are some issues, mainly that the AI gets annoying…but overall I’ll give this game a solid 9.7/10, warning spoilers ahead y’all been warned

So the plot of this game is, the character u play as (I unfortunately have forgotten his name, maybe I am having amnesia of my own lolo ..no I ain’t I just thought I’d make a joke) wakes up in a castle with amnesia, he doesn’t remember who he is or how he got there…..what we do know is the info that’s on a paper that’s in the other room…it basically says hi I am u and I’m about to give myself amnesia, but I’m gonna need u to go to the cellar of the castle and kill Alexander……..yeah thats vague……so u the main character has to roam around this big castle, u end up finding papers that retells the events of what happened there……also in different areas his memory starts coming back which then he starts hearing the flash backs of the people he killed….yeah did I forget to mention he killed people? Yeah will get to that in a second….I want to quickly mention the mechanics in this game, the entire game is pitch black except for segments that have small amount of light….u have to stay out of the dark otherwise u will start hallucinating things….reason is because ur main character was born with massive fear of the dark…..oh if u stay in the dark for to long u will have a rough time playing ur screen will be wobbling around, u will see bugs where there’s none existing….heck if u let ur sanity meter go down u urself will see bugs crawling on ur screen and there is no bugs on the screen it’s just a way for the game to scare u…it definitely startled me….oh throughout the game u will pick up these 2 things oil bottle for ur lantern u find…..don’t use it to much otherwise u will waste fuil easily…then there these things called tinderboxs…..there these things that allow u to light up a torch, in this game ur gonna need to be very careful ans decide whether u should save the tinderboxs u find for later and walk through the dark or light the torches up now…..because there’s nor enough tinderboxs to light up every torch…..I think that’s also what adds to the creep factor in this game….BTW this game is a slow burner, u won’t encounter any monsters until ur like near the end of the first act of the game basically….anyways also once u encounter the monsters u cannot stare at the monsters for to long…otherwise ur sanity meter goes down…..so u kinda have to hide behind a wall and just hope the monster walks away from u so then u can leave…so u can’t look over and see if the monster left or not….also the way to get ur sanity back up is by solving puzzles which there are many in this game….now to describe some of the events…so throughout this game u will have memories and read notes that describe that ur character killed and tortured innocent people because he wss tricked by Alexander…he told him if he did these things that cure him of a curse he has…but instead Alexander tricked him and instead this was helping opening up a portal to a different world where Alexander lives at…he wants to go back home….so yeah no wonder why the main character wants him dead…..anyways so by the third act of this game after navigating lower and lower and lower throughout thr castle u will find a husk of a corpse being possessed by a ghost who is tied up….he will ask u to help him by finding different fragment pieces to a orb…u must find it for him….then after that he will ask u to decapitate him …..this is where u have 4 different endings….1st ending if u decide not to decapitate him u will go ans encounter Alexander who’s already half way through opening the portals…if u decide to stand there ans do nothing…he will leave…and the evil fleshy blob u see throughout this game called the shadows will gulf u up…… 2nd ending if u get captured by the monsters u will be put I’m a cell if u decide to stand there and do nothing…same scenario…. 3rd scenario u go there and stop him from completing the ritual by knocking down the pillars……and u will get to leave out the castle alive… 4th ending…u decapitate the husk and toss his head in the portal…but ur character dies but then u hear the husk pleading to someone or something to spare ur life and the game ends there…honestly I went for the ending where u walk out alive but hey that’s just me…..onto my negatives and positives

Positives: honestly this game is eerie I must give credit where credit is due…the decision to ad a sanity meter and make it u don’t have enough light sources was a great idea…..good job……the atmosphere of the game is eerie, and gorgeous at the same time…I do like the way the story plays out….now onto negatives

Negatives: the AI are so horrible it ain’t even funny…for example if u stand behind a knocked down chair and a monster tries hitting u to kill u…it can’t kill u but it will stand there doinf hitting animation…wow talk about horrible programing…..I know of slightly older games with better AI programming btw….so saying this game is old isn’t an excuse…… other issue uh I’ve encountered a bug 2wice where I fall through the map….into a void…where I had to exit and reenter the game…yeah I can tell they never fixed the issues In this game.. its like they made it…dumped it out and said pfff where done…onto the next game.  …

Overall really great and spooky game I highly recommend it especially during October…I’m giving it a solid 7.4/10…