Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Disappointing experience. As a horror fan and Amenesia games supporter, I thought playing this game would send chills down my spine. This game goes a different route than the first, and in my opinion - a worse route. Story aspect was not terrible, but left alot to wish for. Playtime seems very short, making the story fall flat because of how rushed it felt. The monster design was not scary to me personally. Also monster encounters were rare and very staged. Instead of having a monster roam free like in the first game, here the game events are predestined, meaning you don't have as much of a free will to play as you want [which affects the scare factor]. The atmosphere however was kept mostly the same as the first game, which is perfect. Overall, I think the change of developer studio made a big impact on why this game wasn't as good as it could've been.

writing is much worse than TDD and the game has a lot of bugs and crashes

great game

The sound design in the game is top notch, and it has a really dark tone that immerses you. Great game if you are into horror games. Can't go wrong with any frictional game really.

Esse é certamente aquele jogo estranho dentro da franquia. Eu acredito que pela parceria com a The Chinese Room, famosa pelos seus walking simulators, a gameplay de A Machine for Pigs destoa muito do seu antecessor em ritmo. The Dark Descent tem uma boa história, que brinca com detalhes históricos, mas que tudo isso fica em um certo segundo plano pra contar algo que é um tanto quanto simples no meio de terror. Não me levem a mal, eu só tenho elogios a The Dark Descent, o que eu quero dizer é que A Machine of Pigs parece ser meio que o reverso de seu antecessor, em vez de se apoiar em criar mais momentos de gameplay que são memoráveis, ele aposta tudo no seu enredo. Então, eu não tenho muito a falar por que os melhores aspectos desse jogo seriam uma puta de um spoiler para colocar na analise, Mas, gostaria de dizer que o trabalho da Jessica Curry com a tilha sonora é maravilhoso, o final de Machine for Pigs vive na minha cabeça até hoje, mesmo que toda a jornada até lá tenha ficado devendo na gameplay e ritmo tão bom que The Dark Descent criou. A Machine for Pigs é um lembrete para nós que mesmo que mídias de terror portem os mais cruéis atos por meios do sobrenatural e absurdos, os maiores horrores da humanidade são cometidos por nós mesmo e nós convivemos com eles como se não fossem nada.

Um jogo mais fraquinho, Amnesia, de survival horror, virou walking simulator... Não conseguem causar urgência com os porquinhos, tudo é muito linear e scriptado. Mas, ainda assim, arrasam na ambientação e tem uma história e conceitos bacaninhas.

Really surprised by how much I liked this. The gameplay is certainly less important to this game than in The Dark Descent, but I found the story of this one almost more interesting. It's also very short, which is a good thing to me but maybe bad to others. The pigs scared me quite a bit as well, and there's some great and subtle psychological horror tricks the game uses at various points that honestly had me questioning if I was imagining it. I would recommend this if you like horror games and want a game with more of a focus on the story and less on gameplay. Only flaw was some cheap-ish jumpscares but they weren't too common. Very underrated game in my opinion.