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Review - What can you expect from the game?
By Phantasmal Warlock
A review for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Please notice that this review is based on my opnions and gameplay and might therefor not be 100% accurate.
   
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Category: Game Modes, Maps or Levels, Story or Lore
Languages: English
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10 Sep, 2013 @ 8:09am
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I have a lot of experience with Amnesia The Dark Decent and was elated to play A Machine for Pigs. To be honest, I'm not really sure why the game is called "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs" as I saw almost nothing Amnesia related. They used some models and a few textures from the main game but that was it basicly. I did not have an inventory, I did not have to worry about my sanity, health nor oil, I could not use tinderboxes and could barley interact with anything at all.

I tried to immerse myself, but failed pretty badly. It offers low to no challange at all. The puzzles were easy and did not require much intelligence to complete. 80% of the quests did include items I had to find or valves I had to turn, as I didn't have an inventory and the original Amnesia quests was a lost call.

The enemies were way to easy to avoid, as half of them spawned in corridors and could easily be spotted by simply sneak behind a wall or a pillar. Not to mention the lantern that warned me when a monster was nearby by constant flickering.

The pig enemie was glitchy and I was able to go right through the enemie model. While I did, he was unable to hit me.

The water monster was also way too easy to avoid as I rarley had to cross the water. Only time I was in close combat with him was when the game developers forced me down the water against my will.

The levels felt very repetitive and offered a low varation. The storyline was actually decently good, and I'm glad for that. I'm not sure if I could find motivation to continue this game otherwise.



Conclusion
It's obvious that Frictional Games did not make his game/story alone. I never really liked what The Chinese Room produced and this is not an exception.

It's filled with badly designed and glitchy enemies, repetitive levels and puzzles and offers almost no scares whatsoever except for a pig running by once in a while or shaking screens which I eventually got used to.

They did a great work with the plot and the game mechanics, it's not a bad game, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped for. I have seen custom stories for Amnesia with more challange, better scares and a longer plot. This to me was like another average customs story from Moddb.
Is it worth the money? If you never played the original game, yes you will probably find this game cool and scary as hell. If you played the original game, yes but don't expect it to be like the original game. You will get disapointed.

6/10 - Decent
6 Comments
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Phantasmal Warlock  [author] 18 Jan, 2015 @ 12:55pm 
This was before that though. It's an old review mate
shezzor 18 Jan, 2015 @ 12:37pm 
This is a review and not a guide. Reviews have their own section on Steam.
💕Cyril💕 3 Jul, 2014 @ 4:50pm 
this game just didnt have the atmosphere, or the pretty levels. i look back at dark descent even today and all the light effects and everything just fit extremely well. this game felt like you had no freedom, you couldnt even interact with anything, which was one of the main things in dark descent
Mr_Goober 13 Sep, 2013 @ 10:17am 
As an Amnesia fan I was hugely disappointed with this 'game'. No adrenaline rushes to be had here, just a boring walk around with 3 or 4 encounters with non-scary piggies. I feel ripped off.
UncleGwen 11 Sep, 2013 @ 7:21pm 
Yea, I can tell this is not a great game, even though I only played 20 min. I know It won't be anything like TDD, but I've been waiting for this next 'Amnesia' game for 1 year, so I'll play it just for the lawls.
omega18 11 Sep, 2013 @ 1:06pm 
They dumbed it way to down in this one. I think Outlast puts this new Amnesia to shame BIG TIME. : /