#Amnesia collection series

Typical for most first person horror/survival titles like these, and can indeed take some getting used to, but like I said in a rush to survive, practice makes perfect. For example, you need to select the door and then hold it while using the right thumbstick, and then swing the door open in a half circle kind of motion. The most frantic part of the game, which generally adds to the fear factor and is what usually catches most players out, is the way to open and close doors, or moving interactive items and switches. The controls in Amnesia for all games are actually fairly solid and respond well, but can take a little bit to get used to, and believe me, you want to get used to them. Picking up little bottles of laudanum, which acts as health, will see you through to the next encounter. There are other enemy encounters in the game but I’m not telling you, where’s the fun in that? The monsters in Amnesia can harm you (and will) if caught or within close distance. These ‘Grunts’ as they are called in-game, can detect light, movement, and sometimes sound, depending on the section of the game you’re in. You may have googled a picture to see how messed up they are, but when you’re running down a dark corridor and notice a growl, turn around and see one of these things coming at you, it puts a whole new meaning on the word run! Your heart races as you scramble to find the nearest wardrobe or dark corner to crouch and hide in, slamming doors behind you as you run to offer the slightest amount of extra time. The creatures (or monsters) of Dark Decent are some of the scariest designs I’ve seen in a game. During the course of the game you will encounter objects such as gears and levers to use in door puzzles or to fix machines along the way, allowing you to dive deeper into the madness that awaits. Now what’s a horror game without puzzles? and there are a lot of them. You also come across polygraphs, which when activated, tell you the story as you proceed along. These can be collected in various places like cupboards and wardrobes, under beds and high on shelves.Īlong with these handy boxes you also have a lamp which you can hold out for light, to help calm your character down, and also serves is a handy tool to help you search for notes to piece together the story or to give you tips and clues on what to do next. You soon find out you must create light by lighting candles with tinderboxes – think of an old school zippo lighter. This is what happens when you start to lose your sanity and become overpowered by the darkness. As you start to move around the castle you notice things become blurry and slow, fuzzy even. The Amnesia Collection comes with two main titles The Dark Decent and A Machine for Pigs, along with a DLC pack, Justine, added for The Dark Decent – and so I shall review this collection as such.Īs the game starts off, you wake up on the ground of an unknown castle without no recollection of the past except for your name and a single motive, ‘he needs to die’. Horror fans can now rejoice and dive into the universe created by Frictional Games and explore the blood soaked, heart racing dark decent, which is terrifying to say the least. Amnesia has also been a YouTube and streamers dream game, with people watching from all over the world just to see someone scream or cry.Įven celebrity YouTuber PewDiePie had great success from these games and mentions how Amnesia helped grow his channel.

In many ways the horror/survival title has become a staple for horror games even today and has set a pretty tall benchmark for years to come.

#Amnesia collection series

The Amnesia series has been scaring the pants off of many horror fanatics for years now, since 2010 if I’m not mistaken, and still somewhat graphically holds up to this day, offering the scares that many have tried to recreate.