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Pathetic, Really
Dec. 18th, 2010 12:15 amAmnesia Diary
How big a wuss do you have to be to hit the EXIT button in panic halfway through a game? >.< That's what I found myself doing after encountering a monster and turning tail to run - only to realise that I'd lit all the candles in all the rooms, which meant I had nowhere to hide, and was therefore DOOMED. (I would've used my lantern instead of lighting all those candles, only I'd run out of oil long ago...). So I took the chicken exit out of the damn thing.
Epic fail.
By the way, I take back what I said about the game not being pretty. It's not clean, high-render pretty, sure, but it more than makes up in highly *effective* lighting effects. This is the one game I've played so far where no light = *complete* darkness. But it doesn't stay pitch-black forever; just as your eyes adjust to darkness in real life, Daniel's eyes also adjust to the darkness around him, which means that when you step into a lightless area, you see nothing at first... and then you start being able to make out shapes and structures. Pretty damn cool.
Oh, and I don't know what's worse: chancing upon a monster in the dark - which is exactly where you'd expect to find one, but which is scary just the same because you can't see it coming from afar - or having a monster appear from out of nowhere when you're someplace you'd THINK you were safe, like that very cosy, warmly lit guest room with the cheery fireplace, and the game suddenly sends you a warning that a monster is coming your way, you have no defences, so you'd better find a hiding place REAL QUICK OR DIE. I have never run for a closet so fast.
What the hell are those things anyway?
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In other news, our annual concert is tomorrow. I've been shifted from the right end of my row to dead centre, which, in a way is good: the hearing in my left ear hasn't returned completely (and I think I have some kind of new superpower that lets me *feel* very low frequency vibrations in said left ear... although it's pretty much useless for anything else), which meant that for the past few days I had trouble hearing the rest of the orchestra from my corner, but now the sound is a great deal more balanced. On the other hand, I do *not* like sitting right in the centre, so am getting a mild case of Nerves. Especially not when they've just dealt out a new piece and I find that I have two very long duet parts with the trombone. Gah!
[No, this is not the best time to be playing a highly stressful survival horror game either. LOL.]
How big a wuss do you have to be to hit the EXIT button in panic halfway through a game? >.< That's what I found myself doing after encountering a monster and turning tail to run - only to realise that I'd lit all the candles in all the rooms, which meant I had nowhere to hide, and was therefore DOOMED. (I would've used my lantern instead of lighting all those candles, only I'd run out of oil long ago...). So I took the chicken exit out of the damn thing.
Epic fail.
By the way, I take back what I said about the game not being pretty. It's not clean, high-render pretty, sure, but it more than makes up in highly *effective* lighting effects. This is the one game I've played so far where no light = *complete* darkness. But it doesn't stay pitch-black forever; just as your eyes adjust to darkness in real life, Daniel's eyes also adjust to the darkness around him, which means that when you step into a lightless area, you see nothing at first... and then you start being able to make out shapes and structures. Pretty damn cool.
Oh, and I don't know what's worse: chancing upon a monster in the dark - which is exactly where you'd expect to find one, but which is scary just the same because you can't see it coming from afar - or having a monster appear from out of nowhere when you're someplace you'd THINK you were safe, like that very cosy, warmly lit guest room with the cheery fireplace, and the game suddenly sends you a warning that a monster is coming your way, you have no defences, so you'd better find a hiding place REAL QUICK OR DIE. I have never run for a closet so fast.
What the hell are those things anyway?
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In other news, our annual concert is tomorrow. I've been shifted from the right end of my row to dead centre, which, in a way is good: the hearing in my left ear hasn't returned completely (and I think I have some kind of new superpower that lets me *feel* very low frequency vibrations in said left ear... although it's pretty much useless for anything else), which meant that for the past few days I had trouble hearing the rest of the orchestra from my corner, but now the sound is a great deal more balanced. On the other hand, I do *not* like sitting right in the centre, so am getting a mild case of Nerves. Especially not when they've just dealt out a new piece and I find that I have two very long duet parts with the trombone. Gah!
[No, this is not the best time to be playing a highly stressful survival horror game either. LOL.]
