HOLY SHIT! That is a exclamation that will be uttered by everyone who plays this several times. This is a game that truly knows how to scare it's players. Right off the bat that game tells you how you should play the game, to maximize the effect of the pant soiling. No lights, use headphones and try to focus on the game. The only bit of this I didn't completely follow was the lights, I had Christmas lights on behind me, I'm still slightly jumpy when Christmas lights are turning on or flashing.
Amnesia - The Dark Decent is an indie game created by Frictional Games. With many indie games, I don't expect much in the graphics aspect but in the story. For a game from 2010, the graphics aren't stellar, but for an indie game they actually aren't all that bad. In fact, they are pretty good. But this is a horror game, graphics aren't all that necessary for this type of game.
Does this game stack up to today's horror games? You bet your ass this game does. Considering more of today's horror games give you either awesome guns that take challenge and thinking, and subsequently scaring, out of the game. When they do this you aren't left with much more then a shooter with some creepy looking baddies. Now does this game stack up with something like Silent Hill 2? Almost, in both games you are frightened to leave whatever hiding hole you have created, the place you are forced to be in feels like it is against you, you don't really know what the hell is going on and you don't have many choices other than running. Sure Silent Hill gives you a gun, but chances are it isn't going to be doing much.
When I was playing Amnesia small things like sounds and the occasional blur in the distance would make me piss myself and I'd go find a hole to crawl in. This game is almost an embodiment of what you want in a true horror game. Things actually scaring you, and not that "Oggly wooggly woo I'm in a closet" crap, this game will scare you on every level.
This game also entails some puzzle that occasionally beg the question "This makes sense why?" or "Didn't I do everything right?" But once you figure it all out the puzzle make sense again, sort of. The puzzle can be challenging at times but always rewarding to know you are getting farther and once step closer to no longer soiling yourself.
In Conclusion: If you enjoy horror games, this is definitively a must. The game is scary on many levels, the puzzle can be interesting and complex and it's really the only real horror game to come up in years. I would highly reccomend this to anyone who likes horror games.
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