AMNESIA: A MACHINE FOR PIGS (Zero Punctuation)

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[@HeatyFrog]

That "Amnesia: Revelations" joke hits different now that they actually called the newest sequel "Amnesia: Rebirth"

[@coltenwestin7457]

Instablaster

[@TheGlenn8]

Which, to be fair, is still a fitting title since pregnancy and birth is a major theme in the story.

[@quinn4436]

3:49 the single frame shows a man carrying a gear into a doorway that says "slow down hoss"

[@Argonwolfproject]

+Mr. Guy Could've just said it was the same one as 3:14

[@liljakesspokesman3337]

I managed to see the frame!

[@itsme2313]

Quinn Possibly he was trying to subvertly turn us insane as well.

[@thebackofdoctormanhattanshead]

3 years late, maybe, but if you use the < and > keys you can move frame by frame in KZbin

[@Ramsey276one]

@@Argonwolfproject thanks for that!

[@gruntage95]

I work in a large pig slaughtering plant. So my buddy bought this for me for my birthday to celebrate. I started off being all freaked out, and towards the end I ended up just kinda being like "Hah, wait til' you see what I do to your cousins every day by the thousands."

[@bootmanbill2362]

Wow I'm surprised you weren't attacked by hordes of vegans

[@NeoSaturos123]

Either that or angry Muslims.

[@scrums4748]

As a muslim, I agree

[@nauro9187]

Just Another fuck :v

[@THEGODROD]

Lol

[@Percival917]

I suddenly want to make an adventure game called "kleptomania."

[@Hotfox999]

"Eyes on the prize of your thighs."

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Cause thighs always catch our eyes.

[@scirrhia_kruden]

He was surprisingly and pleasantly positive towards the game. Nice to see that.

[@Thoreaux]

"the game does a good job of making the titular machine feel like a groaning inescapable monster given a hideous lurching life by whirring engines and boiling steam with you, an insignificant speck, lost uncomprehending in its workings, like a terrier in a sex orgy." I laughed for probably an entire minute. Such a simple simile, and yet so VIVID.

[@clonemaker12]

The sense is smell- *And the smell is piss.*

[@Flabulo]

+CloneMaker You got 15 free likes for quoting the last line of the video. I want to be mad, but I can't.

[@Schlorgan]

Well, it was made by the guys that made Dear Esther and not Frictional, the developers of The Dark Descent. Frictional are off making a sci-fi horror game called SOMA.

[@Valiordruid]

Isn't that the drug that makes everybody all loosy-goosy, easygoing and much more likely to engage in orgies in _Brave New World_? Hmm. Imagine that.

[@johnauner5139]

***** Yeah! My mom used to take them...........

[@christophervanerp1133]

played it, pretty good

[@TTRPGSarvis]

You...didn't make a Wind Waker joke about being caught by Pig Men you have to sneak past, and if you fail you are sent to a cell? That is like...exactly the most frustrating section of Wind Waker.

[@paperbag2410]

I can't believe they didn't get rid of that in the remake.

[@Weldedhodag]

Paper Bag It wasn't that bad

[@MegamanXfan21xx]

Karimnchok Still, having your first real mission be a stealth section seemed like a bad idea to me.

[@hoodedman6579]

+Paper Bag They made it much easier in the remake. +Karimn D.K.I It is trivial to go past them if you keep the upper path; the lower bath has corridors where you have to hide in barrels. Even when it's easy, it certainly isn't fun anyway.

[@schradeya]

Oh my, the use of 'eponymous' in this video is just plain sexy.

[@BortzProductions]

I LOVE this game so much.

[@raulsanchez543]

i got 2 mins in and a i am scared. i had to put it down to see what is happening on youtube. so i dont shit myself.

[@rachelglenn4821]

Please explain why,yes it has been 7 years but i played all three and i was mostly confused in MFP.

[@anthonyyan338]

Some Victorian factory owner tries to improve the working conditions in his factory through automation and ends up nearly bankrupting himself in process. Desperate, he and his sons go searching for some artifact. The artifact gives him visions of the terrible atrocities of the 20th century and of his sons dying in the Battle of the Somme so he kills them to spare them the horrors of WWI. He then returns to England and uses the artifact to turn his factory into a human sacrifice machine or something and also starts turning people into Manpigs. Then I think he gets sick or something and his soul splits between Mandus and the Engineer. Anyway that’s what I can remember

[@ElChuntyCabra]

Just played it for the first time now. Sorry, it sucks bad

[@alexwithadashofsalt]

@@ElChuntyCabra then you’re stupid

[@clairescoffin]

I watched a let’s play of this game and the story was really interesting to me. I thus went on a google spree, came across the Wikipedia page for it and dug up more information about it. I found my now favorite book ever The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. It was one of the books that inspired HP Lovecraft and where the development team got the idea for the pig humanoids. Random facts from a google diver and run on sentence master.

[@SPM0717]

4:00 I agree, if you either see or hear a pigman literally trotting around for more than a couple of seconds then it's time to hide. Otherwise, it's just ambient noise and nothing else. The sewers are a prime example: I heard some pigmen in a little labyrinth I had to enter, but as it turned out they just seemed to be in the freaking walls or something because I met nothing.

[@Villevalo0666]

Did anybody else see the "mis-frame" at 3:48 ?

[@nirseanguarino8084]

I feel dumb, i just realized that the chinese room is a philisophical thought experiment

[@thewhateverguy1]

New rule: don't drink water while watching zero punctuation. I did and I nearly drowned.

[@micksquizzy]

you think thats bad? I was drinking Root beer

[@LeinadCasey]

***** You think that was bad? I was snorting cocaine.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

LeinadCasey You think that was bad? I was licking pussy. ...while watching Zero Punctuation. My partner has some unusual fetishes. Don't judge us.

[@micksquizzy]

Moon Mover LOL

[@pploversuckerandhuffer]

thewhateverguy1 STOP POURING WATER, YOU WON'T DROWN IF YOU DON'T FUCKING OPEN THE FLOOD GATES

[@peterrawlins1190]

Listing to the opening theme on 0.5 speed is the most metal thing ever.

[@fwenzelfwenzel]

+Peter Rawlins Holy shit you are way too right

[@fwenzelfwenzel]

+Peter Rawlins 1.5x also ain't bad

[@TwiggehLeaf]

I also felt that the monsters were less horrifying visually. The gatherers made my heart skip a beat the first few times I saw them, and seeing them still makes me uncomfortable. But when I saw the pig monsters, it was more like, "Oh yeah. It does look like a pig man. Okay, moving on."

[@crabscycle988]

I love how when Yahtzee is talking about child laborers you can hear him running out of breath.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

3:49 If you can pause at just the right moment, you can access a slide with a mustachio'd man carrying a cog into a door and the sign above the door saying "Slow down hoss". Is that supposed to be a hint at the character's Tyler Durden relationship or something?

[@Mzzaart007]

no, it's merely the same frame as a few seconds before it, they just messed up

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Mzza-art Oh

[@dikspachinco3614]

i did that then scrolled down to post a comment about it

[@cccookie1556]

They should remake both Amnesia games. Only to name them "Amnesia: The Double-D" and "Amnesia: A sausage for breakfast"

[@pavester4]

The put on a blind fold and shit yourself part is fucking hilarious and accurate

[@cereal_chick2515]

That figure with the unhinged jaw was the first jumpscare ZP's ever given me, as well as one of the most horrifying images it's ever shown us imo.

[@milto1232]

"Couldn't we just call it Amnesia Revelations or something?" Laughs in Amnesia Rebirth

[@MisterAAnderson]

lol

[@Crispmyass]

There's a frame of something else spliced in at about 3:50 that i cant make out

[@XiYen]

It's just a frame from earlier in the video.

[@1987slim]

Looks like a possible editing error in the video.

[@Jaceblue04]

"What do you call this one, 'duck egg blue?' Yum, tastes like dying brain cells!" lol

[@TheBlackWaltz]

As someone who greatly enjoyed the first Amnesia, I started playing this, and as soon as I figured out that there was no inventory system, got bored. There was no reason to play anymore. The story was cool, yeah. But I got maybe two or three hours in, nothing had happened, I explored EVERYTHING, and yet, I found nothing of interest. I was very disappointed. I didn't even find it to be scary.

[@DrPotatoPerson]

dark descent was not the first, just so you know.

[@TheBlackWaltz]

It was the first amnesia game in the series. The game they made before it, was similar, but not the same series.

[@DivisorOfZero]

TheBlackWaltz I guessing you are talking about the Penumbra series.

[@Myrdin90]

This game wasnt an Amnesia game. It was developed by The Chinese Room, who made such killer titles like "Dear Ester"... And they only used the same name as the original Amnesia.

[@TheYoyoYoko]

Frictional hired them to make it. So I'd still call it an amnesia game.

[@tyraelarchangel183]

I agree with you. Nostalgia is just that: remembering the good things about the past. Normally all nostalgia is, is remembering the GOOD things about ones past, and it's normally easier to remember all the good things ("Oh, the good ol' days"), when in reality they weren't that good because you just ignored or forgot all the bad stuff. Like this, "Oh the good old days when phones couldn't be carried around." Yeah, right grandpa, those were the good ol' days. Prime example of nostalgia.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

3:48 Anyone catch what that was?

[@lithenism]

Captain Rave Slendy its a single frame of whats shown at 3:14, probably just a editing bumble

[@xesolor]

lithenism Nope nope it's a horrifying subliminal message because the game is real and you're in it

[@zxinsWorld]

Captain Rave Slendy I did.

[@raylazerman8240]

Captain Rave Slendy SLOW DOWN HOSS!.

[@Thalkor]

0:45 I want this picture its weird but cute

[@NinjaMasuyo]

The complete removal of gameplay killed the immersion for me.

[@MrSpyPotatoes]

I loved Dark Descent, but this game did not scare me at all. I didn't even realize the first two times I was in a room with pig monsters because they were so easy to get past. The lack of inventory meant no more backtracking, which meant I didn't have to run through an area avoiding a monster, get a puzzle piece/solve a puzzle, and then realize I had to go back. That realization built tension, made me want to stay in that room. But now it's gone. Also, no more limited oil/tinderboxes. Mixed feelings on this, but ultimately it builds tension and contributes to the atmosphere; when you let the lights be unlimited, there's no real reason no to turn everything on, especially if you know there's not a monster around. Also, from a gameplay perspective, it's not as fun because you can only interact with story related objects and a handful of other things; no more furniture barricades like in the previous game. And perhaps most importantly, removing the sanity meter means that there's nothing keeping you from staring at the pig monsters, and the longer you look at anything, the less scary it gets. Do a google search for the amnesia monsters and they look silly, but put yourself in a dark room where looking at them slowly causes your vision to distort and your breathing to become heavier, eventually resulting in the monsters hearing you, is a great way to build tension, and that is unfortunately missing in this game. Really feels like they took a bunch of steps back in this entry.

[@supercoolguy43]

2:31 Bows backwards. You'd need some serious lower arm strength to hold it up like that.

[@supercoolguy43]

***** You know how to train that finger strength ;)

[@captaincraftit696]

+supercoolguy43 *_Cookie clicker, clearly._*

[@supercoolguy43]

CaptainCraftIt oh baby

[@TigrisISA]

Amnesia stole the Pig thing from George Orwell...

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

And America stole the country thing from Europe.

[@TigrisISA]

Europe stole country thing from Summeria, actually.

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

Isaac Friedman I wasn't talking about Europe stealing something, now was I? =P

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

***** That was... Actually pretty good... Huh.

[@ExpeMatrix]

I have a feeling you've never read Animal Farm.

[@notimetoexpIain]

The reason A Sausage For Breakfast turned into a sightseeing tour is that the original studio wasn't working on it. They were doing something else and the people that made ASFB are the same people that made Dear Esther.

[@erttheking]

1:55 Oh Christ that sausage looks good.

[@ummhello99]

He is a reviewer/ critique if you have played any of the games he reviews he brings up some very valid points. If you define the word critique he fits the description. All he does is just make his reviews funny and enjoyable.

[@HardMGaming]

I really was looking forward to this game. The first one was the first horror game that legitimately scared me and the custom stories kept me occupied for weeks. Taking away most of the things that make you dread the monsters such as insanity, limited oil, non-regenerating health, etc, really put me out of it. And with the custom story support taken out, I have absolutely no reason to buy it. Sucks really.

[@BoNeHeAd910]

THANK YOU! I remember when they first started talking about removing all these things how disappointed I was... and everyone told me I was overreacting. Were all the custom stories masterpieces? No but they extended the life of the game. I was seriously disappointed and have yet to even think of buying it until they re-include the new things in the old level editor... so then we can play with the fun new things, in the fun old game, limited oil, insanity, and whatnot. So thank you. I'm very glad I'm not the only one seriously discouraged with this one, while being absolutely in love with the first.

[@DILFDylF]

I fucking hated the insanity meter. It was the most arbitrary, annoying thing I have *ever* seen in a game. At the *very* least it should have gradually restored whilst you stood in light, but no. If you were stuck, out of light, and had to traverse monster infested areas your character would break down upon sight of a monster because he hadn't successfully used his brain in too long.

[@RickJaeger]

Zachary Comstock Not really arbitrary. Annoying maybe.

[@marther3898]

i thought the invisible "Sanity Meter" in A:DD was just fine, since it wasn't a displayed meter like in Eternal Darkness (there was the little brain icon in the menu, but that was it). They only active gauge the player had for their sanity in A:DD was how wobbly the visuals got, which replaced the missing challenge that combat would have given us. Sanity as mechanic in A:DD worked because it was still nebulous and mysterious. You never knew how sane you actually were until finding the very rare and finite drug that brought you back to normal. i say this because my deepest root memory of A:DD was having escaped the Gatherer chasing me and having none of that sanity candy to heal the brain with and only 1 tinderbox, so I gathered my real world nerves, light the closest candle, and stared at the flickering flame for at least 10 minutes in-game, telling myself I was going to be okay as my heart pounded in my chest. and then i made it to the prison cells of the castle's dungeon and my memories kind of locked themselves away after that, as if my brain knew that forgetting would be good for me, this time...

[@BlargleWargle]

"Amnesia: The Double D" Coming to a porno theatre near you.

[@headfirst1987]

3:48 - The bit where Slow Down Hoss reappears for a nanosecond....intentional?

[@alternative6819]

I dunno. I saw it two, and was thoroughly confused. I guess he's either making a joke on how the game is too easy, even when you die, or Yahtzee just messed something up.

[@Jaceblue04]

I'm watching this video whilst playing Resident Evil Director's Cut

[@fearedjames]

Also it's already released. Just only on the escapist website.

[@ReiAyanami8]

Amnesia isn't the most used Mcguffin in gaming. It's the biggest writing cliche I can think of.

[@namesaresohard]

For some reason it's the same frame at 3:14; Guy carrying gears through a door with the text 'Slow Down Hoss'

[@blodstainer]

I liked this game, because I got scared shitless from games like Dead Space and I wasn't able to finish the first amnesia because of this and this noob-coward version was enough for me, but I still think it did its thing wrong because when its catering to a person like me who doesn't really enjoy horror games its not doing its job correctly

[@blodstainer]

deamento Please use English, but I'mt not saying this game is better, I say I preferred it because I don't like traditional horror games because I'm a scared shit.

[@blodstainer]

deamento In my defense, I don't remember writing this comment xD

[@blodstainer]

deamento Oh I'm Swedish, our courts lets anyone go.

[@blodstainer]

deamento Its disgusting how victims are treated.

[@Lewtable]

deamento Bloodstainer Well that conversation sure escalated quickly.

[@dawhale-badger4523]

your picture matches that quote so much

[@iainmaclean4872]

3:49 Slow down hoss

[@NinjaMasuyo]

I completely agree with you. To me, the lack of gameplay and interactivity and the heavily linear environments (though they were nicer looking than the environments in the first game) made the entire thing feel like a Haunted House tour rather than a survival horror experience. I was also disappointed that they only added one new monster, and that fella got old rather quickly.

[@DarkUb3r]

It shows a guy holding a gear walking through a door with the words, "Slow down Hoss" above a doorway

[@Lemau]

This video amuses me every time. 2013 - I don't like it when a game tries to tell you how you feel. 2015 - The Consuming Shadow (which, for the record, is awesome).

[@GenJeFT]

Start at 3:22 and you have a perfect description of what its like to visit US National Parks right now. The National Park Service being the randomly spawning monster.

[@theLivind]

It the leotard man with a mustach, caring a cog while walking over to a doorway labled "slow down this"

[@smurfofsanity]

Just spent 5 minutes tapping the pause button and reloading only to be rewarded by "slow down hoss". *sigh*

[@Ramsey276one]

Just half a minute, thanks to comment s

[@Xinderkan]

It's the frame at 3:14

[@Blahsheep]

One little clip is at 3:49. It took me a minute to pause at the right spot. It says "SLOW DOWN HOSS"

[@biscuitomcbiscuito2423]

"Eyes on the prize of your thighs" xD

[@SporeFreak2010]

the Charater From 3:07 Holding a Key infront of an open door

[@dullheadedfreak]

Amnesia: A Metaphor for Lower-Class Workers

[@Vixikats]

The new KZbin play-speed option is really awesome!

[@xZippy]

I feel like the only person that absolutely _loved_ the sanity meter. It made shit more scary and interesting.

[@Gideon_the_Seraph]

I adored the sanity meter.

[@CreationTank]

i usually forget about zero punctuation for like a month, then I get so excited when I see how many new videos I have to watch :D :D :D

[@takidlicious]

I had to pause when I saw Harvester because I couldn't stop laughing.

[@magnusm4]

the game had a story which always happened of screen and i didn't even need to hide or anything just run then run in the opposite direction. The first pig man i met i ran straight past just 1cm away from him and instantly went throe the exit.

[@TheMinxTail]

For those that didn't manage to pause it exactly yet. It's a mustached man holding a gear heading into a dark doorway marked "Slow Down Hoss." Probably just a leftover from editing. Probably

[@zyad48]

im sorry but I cannot find amnesia a machine for pigs to be scary, the loss of the sanity meter and inventory is what did that, in the original the sanity meter meant you couldn't look at the monsters or stay in the dark too long which kept you on your toes and made it hard to judge when you should move since you cant look at the monsters, in this game the only concern ppl have is the lantern flickering out when you get close to a monster, this I find just nerfs the game since the lantern turns into a monster radar and since theres no oil in this game which is another reason why it isnt as scary as the original, you can have the lantern going as much as you fucking please, anyone who finds a machine for pigs to be scary is either lying out of their ass or has just never played a horror game before in their life

[@handsomegamer6964]

Wrong. A game isn't made scary by some gimmick telling you how you should feel. It's in the same bag as jumpscares - cheap stuff that desperate people overrely on, because they can't craft actually engaging environment (and because it's becoming the mainstream shortcut to "horror"). And inventory? That is the last relevant thing in a horror game experience. In fact, not having one and having to do extra walking can make you get the most out of the atmosphere, provided the game is well made. Unlimited flashlight is a better point, yet still not gamebreaking, take Condemned for example: you literally have to have the flashlight on at all times to even see where you're supposed to go, because the game is pitch-black almost all the time, and it still is creepy as hell, because it has atmosphere and true horror elements, which are all about your own imagination, not your HUD. If anyone considers stuff like the sanity meter an element which makes the game scary, they're just wrong and probably have just never played a horror game before in their life (to quote a certain gentleman), i.e. if you NEED something like the sanity meter to feel scared, then you are the problem, not the game when it removes it. Also, you're kind of contradicting yourself, your last sentence clashes with the whole message you've been trying to get across.

[@zyad48]

Handsome Gamer rlet me explain what I meant by why the loss of the sanity meter nerfed the atmosphere and difficulty of the game, Amnesia a Machine for pigs losing the sanity meter means you never need to worry about looking at monsters for too long or staying in the darkness for too long, in the dark descent you needed to hide from the monsters while at the same time making sure you were in a good hiding spot WHILE you made sure your sanity didnt lower too low since the lower it gets the scarier the atmosphere gets for the player, you obviously either never played dark descent or while playing never had your sanity lower to the point of "..." which by that point will start to get you hallucinations of monsters that arent there, doors opening on their own suddenly really you havent even gotten that low on the sanity meter in amnesia dark descent have you? Also the loss of a inventory so you cant look at your health is an automatic fail and the sign of the devs trying to make you feel scared about your health but the problem is it always regenerates, look I dont need a sanity meter to have a game be scary, quite the contrary, I find Outlast to be much scarier than amnesia and MILES scarier than a machine for pigs and srsly did you find a machine for pigs scary? if so then you're a pussy, srsly that game is NOT scary, the lantern acts as an enemy radar which effectively nerfs all of the difficulty AND the scariness that the game tried to achieve, its like being scared of Slender The Eight Pages which lets be honest is the most abysmal attempt at a horror game in history, and if you say that FNAF is just as bad in the horror department first of it is scarier than slender, second its main drawing points are the difficulty and the lore which is what the creator really focused on

[@hadsbros]

Never been a PC gamer, but after seeing a preview for Amnesia, I so wanted to experience this game! Got the Collection for PS4 and Abosultely LOVE it! Now that you thankfully might press"Read more", gotta tell you that "A Machine for Pigs" is ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY DIFFERENT compared to the original and even it's DLC. It does have a great story and saying that alone makes it a great virtual book of a game! It has little to no gameplay outside of movement, finding notes, putting objects into other objects to proceed, and best of all RUNNING in this game's very few action segments. Just like Amnesia:TDD, Headphones are a MUST, but now, just enjoy the experience without actual gameplay and it's honestly like a virtual horror book on tape!! A Machine for Pigs is the first minimally control required story-driven fun time you'll have without consequence. YOU ARE in this world and YOU experience it first hand just like a GREAT suspenseful horror novel!!! First time I've felt like I was a part of a book in gaming EVER!!!!

[@Jaceblue04]

But I liked Actually Surprisingly Lively Space 3 :(

[@Dragonagegearsofhalo]

The point of horror games is to make you piss through your eyeballs, dead space grew to be more of a shooter

[@AngryNerdBird]

Orion Virtute The first two were fine. I enjoyed htem both quite a bit and found they were both quite creepy and unsettling all over the place. The third straight-up wasn't even trying to be scary anymore.

[@Dragonagegearsofhalo]

Goatmon There's a third one? What's it called

[@Dragonagegearsofhalo]

What is it?

[@Jaceblue04]

Orion Virtute Dead Space 3

[@mihneaadr]

A new Zero Punctuation video appeared in my feed! Yay, now I can go watch the new one on the Escapist site.

[@UnBR0k3enAngel]

Amnesia: Memories in Space that Make A Revelation That You Were On an Island The Entire Time.

[@azzzertyy]

slow down hoss

[@Feilur89]

He likes a lot of things... he is just good at pointing out what he did not like.

[@TLB95Switchblade]

I would be interested in a full length TV show of the Zero Punctuation character attempting to traverse a yellow world filled with angry video game boxes.

[@randompeanutoftame]

A machine for pigs... It is just a more in depth mod you pay for.

[@Laoruperteen18]

this "game" was just a haunted house ride from a theme park, you walk through it, and occasionally youll hear a Boo!, but you are never in any actual danger and no threat of terror or anything remotely scary once you realise its just a man in a mask. there is nothing to interact with other than what you need to progress forward, there is ONE puzzle in the game, and it isnt that good, you put acid on a lock, then burn it with a light....big woop, also the scares were INCREDIBLY badly timed and all the monsters apart from about 2 parts of the game are nothing but fake poofers that werent there, while the story of the game is scarier than the first game, without the gameplay mechanics that made the first game famous, no puzzles, typical non-scary monsters that you mostly just end up feeling bad for after your second encounter, the unlimited light from your lantern, the linear areas where in the first game you could choose which section of the area to go to first to get one of several components, but in this one is replaced by "Oh look! the only item im able to interact with! ill hold onto it and itll be used for something since i cant interact with anything else in the world." then it just proves that this fails as an amnesia title, not to mention the story and "hidden message" was predictible from the get-go. REALLY bad Amnesia game, more of a horror walkthrough than a game, or an amnesia title for that matter.

[@thundararious]

these are the only reason I follow this channel

[@SaraRoseVaughan]

I think this game's biggest flaw is the linear gameplay. At least for me. I liked the more diverse environment, I liked the deep isolation, I liked the lack of sanity, I liked the lack of tinderboxes and oil, and I liked the lack of enemies that keep you from doing anything. I just wish it felt more like a game and not a long, interactive movie.

[@zyad48]

"actually surprisingly lively-space 3" XD

[@DoratTheKiller]

4:03 It's now been ten years (I think) since I played this game, but I still remember this being my main complaint as well. The *first* time you play the tension and atmosphere make you *very* scared, but after learning that a lot of the monsters encounters were scripted chase scenes which only require you to keep running to not die, the game loses A LOT of its fear factor. That said, its soundtrack is *superb* and perhaps enough of a reason alone to make the game worth playing. I might even say that *to me* it's possibly *the* best soundtrack I've heard in a video game.

[@ElvenRaptor]

There's also the fact that Mandus's idea is stupid if you stop to think about it. The instant I realized his plan was doomed to fail even if he saw it through to the end just killed the game for me. Mandus's intention was to extinguish all humanity with his pig machine before World War I happened, right? Problem is... He did all this in England. An island nation. You cannot walk to any other country without boarding a boat in 1899-1900. Okay, assuming he annihilates England and eradicates it of all human life, what's the next step? How were the pigs supposed to spread out to the rest of the world after that? As stated, you needed to board a boat to move a large amount of bodies to the mainland shore. Who was going to run the ship? Just Mandus by himself? With a bunch of murderous pigmen who don't even seem to recognize their own creator locked down in cargo or something? That he somehow corralled in there by himself because presumably all the other humans are dead? There seems to be a big hole in his plan here. A few big holes. I mean, yeah, the sudden complete death of all human life on what was still a relevant nation at the time would hurt humanity economically, but it wouldn't be anything the whole rest of the world couldn't recover from. So that still leaves the problem as to how the pigmen were supposed to be a worldwide destroyer of all man. And why Mandus thought our improving military and even civilian weaponry wouldn't be able to handle them.

[@specopspoptarts7525]

I need that on a T-shirt "The sense is smell. And the smell is piss!"

[@VanguardFencer]

There's something flashed for a split second at 3:49

[@binatlas6620]

3:49 Anyone else notice the "Slow Down Hoss" frame?...Yes, I take too much time tracking these things down.

[@Funnyduckify]

5:03 best quote ever

[@JackandSally4ever]

Arbitrary thing to notice, but when the games play the Violin/Viola and Bass, they're holding the bows backwards.

[@KaiXau]

It's just the picture of him playing the character holding the gear saying, slow down hoss again.

[@angrycid]

Don't watch these that often, prefer other Escapist content, but i really enjoyed this review and i hope tgere are more like this

[@IMmephiles]

I agree, but that does make the overall library better.

[@ShadoVVings]

Agreed. How could you trade features like oil conservation and being hunted by the most terrifying of creatures for MORE written notes and nothing but reading? At least when TDD wanted to tell you something story related, it also involved literal flashbacks and interactive scenes. If I wanted to read a disturbing book I certainly would have bought one.

[@channelfadge7438]

Yatzee doesn't like sanity meters... *cough- consuming shadow -cough*

[@lyingpancake95]

This review was surprisingly positive O.O

[@xseth1]

1: Thanksgiving was a celebration about the peace between the Native Americans and the Colonists, which later fell apart. 2: Columbus Day is just to celebrate Americas 'discovery', not necessarily anything else Columbus did.

[@GTXDash]

"Couldn't we just call it Amnesia Revelations or something?" Now that's funny

[@leongotget4157]

@ 3:40 it shows "the very British man" in that leotard of his going through a door with text above it reading slow down hoss

[@Montesama314]

Interesting that no shooter has actually been titled "Bullets", as far as I know.

[@ecfbem]

EXACTLY!!! Its an rpg, not a bs jrpg or any of that horror jumpscare stuff, just real, powerful, true fear, it makes you feel lonely and weak, and thats scarry

[@TheDromenon]

I love the fact that I actually decided to look down here.

[@J1MB05L1CE]

Whats up with the flash frame of the puzzle solving again at 3:49? look very closely you'll see it

[@xSmythosx]

My day is good now. I know it's gonna be good, but it's even better