Next on Grand Designs, how to make your kitchen look like a haunted castle! On the other hand though, what it did show us was still very effective. Amnesia: The Dark Descent didn’t manage to show us any brilliantly new ideas beyond what we’d seen in the Penumbra games.
We were confident that the small development team at Frictional Games didn’t have any more tricks to fright us with.Īs it turns out, we were right on that last point and Frictional Games is plainly struggling to find a way to push their unique flavour of horror forwards.
We'd played the entire Penumbra series over the years. Still, there’s a difference between knowing that it’s going to be scary and actually trying to prepare for the cartful of horrors and suspense that Frictional Games is determined to throw at you.
Just take a look at the name, for example – this isn’t like to be a case of rainbows and bunny-flavoured lollipops, is it? Amnesia: The Dark Descent Preview Publisher: Frictional Gamesįollowing on from and using many of the same ideas as the indie-hit Penumbra series, it shouldn’t really need to be said that Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a very scary game.
