Amnesia: The Bunker

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7.8 I really enjoyed Amnesia The Bunker, it's a solid entry and my favourite gameplay from all the Amnesia games. The beast is such a great enemy overall keeping that layer of fear throughout yet never pushing things into an action way, or feeling unfair. It coming and going works with the Hide and Seek style gameplay (that despawned in TDD). My first major complaint is in the core gameplay loop, at least with saving before an area. I found myself saving to then explore the next area, realising what I want to take minimum and then doing more of a 'refined' run of the area by doing it in one more cleaner swoop with the prior runs carving out the tactic. This isn't terrible but general tension of an area is very different the 3rd time going through the same actions. I am disappointed by the lack of any other enemies but the Beast really, there are rats and they are minorly annoying but a meat or molotov would handle them. (I never got the gas mask initially). There is one other enemy and the area that it is located has a neat initial tension but it dissolves fairly quickly. I am glad though with the Hide and Seek style that the Fear/Insanity mechanics are gone as during blackouts and the monster had a larger presence hiding looking at a wall for sometimes a fair while was nice that I wasn't also dying because of it. The crafting system whilst initially interesting feels somewhat lacking as I think the only thing I created with it was molotovs and a bandage in a pinch. Considering how much wood is around I only found I think 2-3 sticks. I did like how something like bullets were not craftable though stopping the game just becoming a 'shoot the Beast if he comes' style. On that topic I don't think I shot the beast once as bullets were so scarce, only locks. I did also by the mid-point realise more just the abundance of cloths, heals, bottles, flares and grenades I had in general so started to just run around a little more rushedly so. This might be fixed on higher difficulties (This initial play was Normal) I did really like the environments for the most part, areas felt a nice mixture of enclosed with the tighter corridors of the bunker but with enough larger rooms throughout to have to explore more around. Only a couple were very large but still wasn't too bad. The focus around the generator too was a nice mechanic with using enough fuel to give enough time to explore an area. Although overall it did mean that I never used the torch, but it keeping the Beast calmer in general was nice enough. I REALLY like the addition of the custom mode. The ability to tweak exactly what you want out of the game is a really nice addition. Along with the other randomisations makes for a somewhat nice idea for future playthroughs albeit the map afaik doesn't change. It is a shame that there wasn't more story involved but it's story itself was at least contained and worked, just would have been more interesting with more going on and happening, but it excels more with it's gameplay. Edit: Finished out the other achievements and shell shock difficulty and raising my score a few because of it. Latter half of that run just felt genuinely quite fun and was overall a pretty tense yet not unfair run with careful planning etc. Just left me feeling a lot more appreciative of some of the things in the game in general.