#Amnesia the dark descent suitor Pc#

Across these many videos, an author addressed simply as ‘Lovecraft’ would pop as a source of influence over the game. I quickly grew obsessed with the lore of this game and as any natural devotee of any game does, I took myself off to YouTube to find as many people discussing and unpicking the lore and potential theories to do with this game. This game, by the way, was ‘Bloodborne’, which is by no means a horror game, compared to my previous rantings/definitions. Normal people who do normal things, who grow an obsession about a something that is unknown to them, which changes many of the characters in this game into one of many definitions of monster, be it a physical monstrosity or a person with monstrous thoughts who actions them. Last year, I bought a game that was a fast-paced JRPG that was almost entirely based around blood, that made me open my mind’s eye to what I think is a far more effective way of dealing with horror, where the fearful villains are not necessarily the big scary monsters or the people that may have conjured them up in a laboratory, but the things to fear are people themselves. My experience of horror would soon change… These sort of examples were the only experiences I had with horror for many years and so it can be forgiven if that was all I thought the horror genre consisted of, zombies and/or body gore that was designed to create this repulsive dread and fear in the viewer/player, as well as jump scares, which I now believe are not scary and create the emotion of fear, but a physical reaction that is called ‘unpleasant’. My distaste in this physical horror was probably birthed from my father, who would probably win Most Irresponsible Father Award in 1999 when forced me to try and tackle Nemesis from ‘Resident Evil 3’. I just didn’t appreciate the vast amount horrible zombies present.

No, I am not lying and yes, I knew it was a comedy and found bits of it funny. To give you an idea of how pathetic I may seem to avid horror fans, I was absolutely terrified when I first watched ‘Shaun of The Dead’. Ever! I am a huge wuss and easily startled by the likes of zombies and excessive gore, which is the general approach with western horror (or at least the few that I have been exposed too) during my life so far. The reason is simple: I don’t do horror games.

#Amnesia the dark descent suitor Pc#

Amnesia: The Dark Descent was released almost 10 years ago on PC (at the time of typing) and I refused to play it for pretty much since it’s release.