Which is something developers need to avoid doing. The structure and atmosphere of the game carries you along without such narration tricks, and I am not sure the engineer's added urgency really helped other than to point out that this is, of course, an elaborate haunted house/ghost train. I was put off by the frequent telephone calls from “the engineer”, even though that presence in the game was so of sensibly delirious, and urgent. These elements are handled well in parts, and not in others. Recording devices, telephone calls, visions and hallucinations, recollected conversations, and Mandus' own mutterings all feature.
Which is understandable, but a big loss to the overall experience.Īs Mandus' search for his children becomes more frantic, so the narrative begins to creep its way in. Dark Descent simply left a strong residue of fright. It's certainly as frightening as its predecessor, at least in individual moments, if not as a sum. It has the same sense of looming threat, but it is larger, and filled with far more impressive environments. It was the corpse of a pig, and something else that looked like a pig.Ī Machine For Pigs is deeply faithful to Dark Descent, and it probably suffices to say that those who enjoyed the previous game are already – rightfully – on board with this sequel. Someone had been trying to bury something in the graveyard. Even static things have a capacity to worry, because they are imbued with terrible implication. It is a game space filled with moments of dread. Some of it is real, however, and what he sees means the horror of what has happens spirals out into unfathomable ghastliness. Mandus' is an unreliable first-person narrator, and it's not clear whether some of what he sees is “real” in the context of the game.
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You begin to find things amiss: cages on the beds, a house full of disturbing objects, and the darkness of the situation rapidly escalates. Immediately he sets out to find his children, muttering about his worries for them. The protagonist, the person in the “first-person” of this horror, is Oswald Mandus, who has woken to find he cannot remember the intervening months.
The horror? The horror? Here's wot I feel.Ī Machine For Pigs is set in Victorian London, initially in a fabulous (and deeply sinister) mansion, and then in the works of some large industrial complex, adjacent to and beneath the mansion itself. Its sequel, A Machine For Pigs, wants to pull off the same tricks. Amnesia: The Dark Descent was one of the highlights in that regard: a world where vulnerability and atmospherics smothered you like the pillow in the hands of a maniac. It might be the thing that they are best at. As Ol' Grandfather Gillen pointed out so long ago, it's something that games are good at.
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