Amnesia: The Dark Descent

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Amnesia: the Dark Descent is a fuck scary horror survival game that is so nightmarish and terrifying that it will either give you a heart attack or severely traumatize you (if you are below 10 years old or just very cowardly). You play the role of Daniel, the player character.

Gameplay

The game really makes the game literally a horror "survival". You don't have any weapons, and you are virtually defenseless. The only thing you can do when a monster attacks you is to run like hell, they can kill you with either 2 or 3 blows, and hide behind closets like a scared little girl. The game also has an sanity mechanic. Insanity will increase if you stay in the dark too long without any light, seeing horrifying sights like corpses or the physical features of the monsters (Seriously, they're not a pretty sight), and the fleshy stuff that grows out of the walls and floors along with huge fleshy balls that look like ball sacks infected by syphilis. When in insanity mode, Daniel's vision will become distorted and will begin to hallucinate. The screen will also show insects crawling about. Daniel will also begin to talk to himself insanely.

Plot

So first, the game starts off after Daniel drinks some liquids that make him lose the majority of his memories. He awakens to find himself in Castle Brannenburg, and at first, everything seems quite tolerable. Your just there in a dark and spooky with tolerable atmosphere. Sure there's a bit of creepy there and a bit horrifying there, but its tolerable....That is until you hear growls, shadowy figures lurking in the dark, wrecked furniture, skeletal remains (with some hidden inside a table drawer), that creepy looking statue on the fountain etc. the castles contents are just endless.

Anyway, Daniel slowly pieces together his past: He was once an archaeologist who discovered an orb somewhere in africa or Lord knows where. However, it was soon discovered that a ethereal and demonic creature, the Shadow, had followed him back to london and killed many of Daniel's colleagues merely for just examining the orb, let alone even glance at it. Daniel was certain to become next, but received a message from Alexander offering help. With no other choice, Daniel accepted his offer and travelled to Alexanders castle. (How innocently ignorant Daniel is about Alexanders real intentions).

He also discovers that he had brutally and mercilessly tortured innocent and not so innocent people in order to drive out the shadow. But when Alexander saw that he had outlived his usefulness, he abandoned him and left him to die. Daniel, being the cowardly pussy that he is, cried like a baby and went all emo about himself. Wanting to erase his monstrous acts, he drank an amnesia drought in hopes that his new self would be stronger willed to kill Alexander(Ironically, it didn't turned out as planned considering that he keeps hiding from the monsters without at least gathering the courage to at least get a fucking weapon and bash them to death).

So Daniel goes further into the castle whilst evading Alexanders minions and the water lurkers. Near the end, he meets with the imprisoned Agrripa. Aggripa asks Daniel to make a potion that will allow him to keep his Head alive so that he can could disrupt the portal that will disallow Alexander from returning to his homeworld. After that, and collecting and reassembling another orb, Daniel goes to the orb chamber and confronts Alexander.

The Player has a choice: take revenge on Alexander by destroying the pillars that are powering the portal and thus kill Alexander, Wait for the portal to open and throw aggripa head into thus killing Alexander,or doing nothing and allow Alexander to enter the portal and leave yourself at the mercy of the Shadow.

Characters

• Daniel - A british archaeologist who sounds like the younger version of Terrence Stamp. Daniel is manipulated by Alexander into brutally torturing people in order to avoid the shadow from killing him. Despite him being the protagonist, he was no better than a sick fuck like Alexander due to the fact that he started to enjoy torturing his victims ("Paint the man, cut the lines. Cut the flesh, watch the blood spill "). He's the sort of type that could catch Slaanesh's attention.

• Alexander of Brannenburg - The Big Bad and a huge dick. Possibly an alien who was banished from his home-world for unknown reasons. He had since been working for centuries to return to his home-world through desperate and gruesome means. He tricks Daniel into believing he could save him from the shadow by manipulating him into torturing human victims. After that, he abandons Daniel to prepare for his departure to his home-world. His hobbies include floating naked in his orb chamber, despite the fact that he claims he's just meditating. The Gathers know better. Due to his manipulative nature, it's possible that he's actually an Eldar.

• Aggripa - Alexanders former best friend who is left imprisoned in a dead husk of a body and is missing his lower jaw. He is also very talkative, and i mean he just cant shut up. Some people go crying to Agrippa for comfort and safety, despite Agrippa not actually gonna be doing anything but to keep on talking.

• The Shadow - The other big bad who is chasing daniel because he stole its orb. It leaves lots of fleshy substances around the castle as Daniel proceeds further.

• The Gatherers - Alexanders monstrous servants, and boy are they butt ugly. They come in two types. Grunts (Named Mr.Face by the fans) are hideous looking guys with they're lower jaw taken off and flops out over their chests and hands replaced by iron claws. Brutes (Named Mr.Tall by the fans) have vagina like heads and have blades in place of their arms. Despite the fact that they are terrifying and blood hungry beasts, some fans portrayed them in a much lighter tone. They were shown as being more gentle and actually pretty nice guys to hang around with. The only offset is that they still kept Daniel scared shitless.