Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a pleasant surprise by Frictional games :)

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Greetings horror games fans, I'd like to share my thoughts about one of the best games I played in the last 2-3 years. Amnesia:The Dark Descent. Even by seeing the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M627-obxNzg) it already gets you a little creped out though the main thing is a lot better. Now why do I think that Amnesia TDD is a really good horror game? First of all when it comes to horror game the main aspect for me was always the game's atmosphere. Atmospheres like the ones in amnesia, silent hill or even in some of the first Resident Evils, always caught my attention cause in games like these the creators tend to create not only fear (which always passes after some time as soon as you start to master the game) but the magic ingredient of desperation. Desperation that happens when it seems as the game has the upper hand on beating you than you beating easily the game. I found that in Amnesia too, from the first little spooky things combined with some nice ambient music, till your first enemy encounters combined with some heartbreaking music. It gets you the feeling that you won't have an easy time here. The concept of not having any weapons (which was also introduced by Frictional games in the "Penumbra: Black Plague") adds some extra desperation to your enemy encounters since the only thing left to do is running and hiding. In addition to all the above your character has not only a health status but a sanity status which tend to get lower when you encounter enemies or unexplained occasions or when you stay too long in the dark. Whenever your sanity level gets lower your players vision gets blurry like when you are dizzy, walking becomes a little unstable and if it gets too low it results on having your character fade out and hearing a beeping sound. Now about the story... The story begins in an place like a castle in the Middle Ages with your main character, Daniel, waking from something like a sleep and as progressing you can easily understand that Daniel is in a short of amnesia state. From the start till a very progressed stage of the game Daniel seems to be a victim in a crazy world that his opponent Alexander (which is also his goal from the start to stop him and kill him) created. As you progress you find out that Daniel isn't as innocent as it seems in the start but more than that he seems to be one of the bad guys after all. I think that I spoiled too much about the game. If you haven't try it horror game fans I'm proposing you to give it a try. If you already played it I'd like you to share your thoughts about this game. What did you like the most? Which was the freakiest/scariest scene of the game in your opinion? Are you up for a new Amnesia game? (I AAAAM!! :))