![]() If you look in your menu and hover over the brain image, you will be told Daniel’s sanity in a way, from being “crystal clear”, to having a “slight headache” to “…”, it’s not precise, but it’s certainly easy to understand.Īfter walking around the (kind of) tutorial area, you will pick up a lantern, and a letter that your past self has written to you. All of these are clues shouting that you should get Daniel into a light source ASAP. There are audio cues, such as: Daniel will start breathing heavily, you will hear his heartbeat pounding, and the classic teeth grinding. There’s not really any indication of when Daniel is hitting his breaking point. THIS IS VERY VERY BAD! You do NOT want to be insane! Oh, and here comes the fun part: Daniel is very afraid of the dark (as he very obviously should be considering his situation), so when you are in the dark, Daniel’s sanity is slowly draining. Is it blood?Īs you follow it, strange stuff starts happening – doors creepily open up for no reason, and wind will suddenly swirl around you and blow out every torch. ![]() Sure enough, one glance at the stone floor shows a strange red trail of drops is on the floor. Going into this notebook pulls up your – you guessed it – notes! You have one note to help you get started: to follow the trail. If you go into your menu (which, on the Switch, is your X button) you can see your health, sanity, items, and a little notebook. There’s a montage of fading in and out images, and then you wake up on your side with no idea what’s going on. So you are dropped into this castle, your vision is foggy and you’re about to black out, and you keep telling yourself not to forget your name. All excellent advice if you are looking to get maximum-spooked. Wait, back up! To be perfectly honest the game begins by making you adjust the gamma so that you can have the spookiest experience possible as well, the game tells you to play with headphones in the dark. The story begins and you are dropped into this big old castle looking place. So here I am now, in 2019, 30-something years old and deciding it would be super fun to give Amnesia a go again on my Switch, JUST in time for Halloween! Whee!īUT OH MY GODS! IT IS SO SCARY! What has happened to my constitution?! Is it just a rule of adulthood that you become less and less able to handle things? I mean, I used to be fascinated by getting my vaccines, I’d watch the needle and be very brave but now when I go in to get my flu shot I have to look away, take deep breaths, and even after doing all of that I STILL get lightheaded and sweaty!Īs soon as I started Amnesia up, and it gave me some pre-game warnings about how this game isn’t played to win, and that the shadow chasing you can’t really be beaten – even just then I was panicking and thinking “Oh my goddess, I want to turn this off right now and play something cheerful!”īut I didn’t do that! I had a review to write! I’m A Survivor! I’m Not Gonna Give Up! Here are the main things that I remembered about the game from playing it in 2010: you have amnesia, a really spooky monster-thing is chasing you, and when you get too insane your character starts grinding his teeth – a noise that just made me cringe! ![]() Since it has been 9 years, I have honestly forgotten most of it. I played Amnesia : The Dark Descent when it first came out on PC, waaaaay back in the day – it originally came out in 2010. That whole idea of the barrier between the spirit world and our world being very thin… oh and, of course, spooky video games! It’s that time of year folks: Halloween! The time of year for costumes and candy, horror movies and haunted houses. Review code used, with many thanks to Frictional Games! I Don’t Think You Can Handle This, WOO! System: Nintendo Switch (also on PC, PS4 and Xbox)
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