In 2020, it’s downright cringeworthy considering nowadays the very act of finding pages in horror games has become a cliché.Īnother outdated trope is the over-reliance on jump scares. This storytelling trope became cliché with the release of Slender in 2012. You’ll also find notes strewn throughout the castle further detailing your recent past the expedition, its aftermath and other adjacent events. Revealing the disturbing events leading up to the start of the game. Playing through, you recover your memory from flashbacks triggered at specific parts. A Foreboding Atmosphere, with a Few Clichés for Good Measure Since discovering it, an intangible horror has been pursuing him and the only way to seemingly stop it is to descend down the depths of the castle and kill Alexander: The Baron of Brennenburg and sponsor of the expedition. Over the course of the game, he slowly recovers his memory of an expedition to Africa where he finds a mysterious orb. He wakes up in Castle Brennenburg without any memory of why he’s there. So how does it hold up?įor the uninitiated, the story follows Daniel.
I decided to give this game another go after leaving such a lasting impression way back in 2010. Since then, numerous indie developers took their blueprint and developed it like with Outlast, while others just simply ripped it off with mixed results. It’s been a decade since Frictional games revolutionized horror games with Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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