Then the game gives the player a flashlight. So the player has actual health, instead of just automatically healing over time, or losing sanity. There is also an ability to lean around corners and aim the gun.Īfter a short gun fighting tutorial in which the player is scripted to take damage, the game hands us some cloth with which to craft bandages. Aiming and firing the gun is slow, clunky, and imprecise. To reload, you have to open the cylinder, drop out the empty shell casings, and manually reload each new bullet one at a time. In order to check how many bullets you have in the revolver, you have to open the cylinder and look at how many bullets are left. Within the opening minutes of Amnesia: The Bunker, the player is dropped into a World War I trench with nothing but an empty revolver. I have not been this impressed or excited by the opening hour of a survival horror game since booting up Resident Evil VII for the first time.ĭeath from German machine guns? Or death from an eldritch Beast? Take your pick. This is a return to old-school survival horror, but with modern conventions and twists. As such, Frictional Games wastes no time in telling the player that Amnesia: The Bunker ain't no walking sim. Survival horror seems to be going through a renaissance of late, thanks in large part to Capcom hitting it out of the park with most of recent Resident Evil games. But even though Amnesia retained more mechanical complexity and more genuine threat than its contemporaries, it (and its sequels) never hit the level of complexity and action of a classic survival horror game. Amnesia also remained one of the more mechanically complex horror games, as more and more horror games leaned harder and harder into the paradigm of the 'unarmed, defenseless player character' and erred closer and closer to walking sims. and Visage (though I'm always surprised to remind myself that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories actually preceded Amnesia by a whole year).

PlayStation 4 Observer_, and even the likes of P.T. So close to hitting a survival horror sweet spot Constantly pulling the flashlight draw string.Waiting for the Beast to retreat takes too long.Return of many classic survival horror concepts.

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