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    Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Sep 10, 2013

    Sequel to 2010's Amnesia: The Dark Descent, this time developed by thechineseroom, with Frictional Games producing and publishing.

    levio's Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (PC) review

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    • levio has written a total of 10 reviews. The last one was for The Evil Within

    Boring in all aspects.

    The original Amnesia game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, was fun because it had interesting puzzles, extremely dark and scary locations, a suitable castle-and-dungeon setting, a story that included a very memorable villain, and some decent dialogue to set the stage. It also made great use of peaceful locations to contrast the dark and scary ones, and overall it was just a blast to play (unless you had major problems with the consumables, which happened to some people).

    In contrast, this game has "puzzles" that just involve clicking on one shiny object after another, locations that are never dark because your lamp has infinite fuel, a real oddball mix of non-scary settings, a story that is entirely nonsensical and makes no attempt to explain all of the off-the-wall events (like a drawer full of glasses and dentures in an office for some reason?), and the most absurd conversations you could ever hear (the sentence "eagle cactus pear" is one of the first things you hear in the game and has no meaning whatsoever). The game also has no peaceful/tense location contrasts to speak of, thought that's really the least significant problem this game has.

    Really, if you want a good horror game, play Amnesia: The Dark Descent. If you've already played it, just play it again. Even a 3rd play-through has more value than this other game has on its first.

    Other reviews for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (PC)

      The Swine Has Risen 0

      Watching Amnesia: The Dark Descent move from a game championed by horror game enthusiasts to a YouTube phenomenon was strange. Horror has been a consistently popular genre across all mediums for centuries because being scared is exciting. Amnesia: The Dark Descent proved that unsurprisingly, watching people burst into panic attacks is pretty entertaining. Amnesia gained a huge following from it's popularity on YouTube and the fans demanded more and in response we have the second entry in the fra...

      4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

      Fit for the Slaughter 0

      With its focus on disempowerment, a set of mechanics which made you push yourself into frightening situations, and a proof that in many ways indie development was more equipped to tackle the horror genre than AAA studios, 2010’s Amnesia: The Dark Descent helped write the book for low budget horror games over the last few years. Expectations were understandably high for a sequel, but its 2013 successor Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs was not released to the same fanfare. It wasn’t intense...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

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