The game’s tension remains consistent throughout. It forces you to keep fumbling around in the dark even if you’ve got a match, and thus, you can never relax. The problem becomes more pronounced as you progress through the game and you juggle limited supplies with constant worry about where to use them. While one might think that the best strategy is to light every single room as you progress, this will leave you with no hiding places should you run into trouble. To hide from a monster you have to be in the dark.
You have very little health it only takes a hit or two before you’re dead in the game. The reason that Amnesia surpasses most other survival-horror games is that your relationship with darkness is complicated by the monsters in the castle. This element generates tension in the player, which also compliments the scares and dread that comes from playing. You get more of these as you progress, and in turn, you use them up as you go. To handle this issue, you’re given a lantern with limited oil and tinder boxes for lighting various torches and candles. You can’t see even the little bit that you can in the dark. You walk more slowly and the soundscape fills with strange noises. When you’re in the dark, your sanity meter drops and your vision distorts. The castle that you are exploring is a very dark place. In the Silent Hill games, it’s more about health. In Resident Evil, the resource will be ammunition. Monsters are scattered around a large area and the player has to get through them, usually by fighting. The player never quite has enough of something that is essential to progressing in the game.
Survival-horror games at the design level are about resources. For newcomers, it will set a standard that few titles come close to. For longtime fans of horror games, it is a breath of fresh air in a genre that is now more about thrills than genuine fear. It readily borrows their ideas and adapts them while dispensing with their flaws. Eternal Darkness, Silent Hill, and the previous Penumbra games are all present in one form or another here. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a well designed survival horror game.
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