With the season of spooky celebrations kicking off, Amnesia: The Dark Descent has added a Hard Mode for individuals who want to endure horrible cruelty as they discover the horrible ghost home of meat monsters. The new mode, added to 2010’s first-person spooker in a patch immediately, makes the meatmen extra murderous and starves us of comforting mild so we lose our thoughts (after which die as we lose our free grip on actuality). So an actual good time. It’s a stark distinction to the bonus mode builders Frictional Games added to their later Soma – an easy option for explorers and sightseers. This time, they need you useless.
Frictional clarify the horrors of Hard Mode:
- Autosaves are disabled, and guide saving prices four tinderboxes
- Sanity dropping to zero ends in demise
- Less oil and tinderboxes all through the degrees
- Monsters are sooner, spot the participant extra simply, deal extra injury and keep round for longer
- There isn’t any hazard music when the monsters are close to.
So there may be much less warning about issues that’ll hurt you bodily and so they’ll deal you extra hurt, and mentally you’ll discover much less to supply consolation and die in case your sanity runs out – and also you’ll have to make use of a few of these consolation sources to avoid wasting as a backup. Ha ha no thanks! I fired up Amnesia with this patch out of curiosity and shortly stopped as a result of ah you understand what, I’m good, I’m high quality, I’ll be simply peachy with out this.
Amnesia spooks me sufficient already and it’s the spooking that I actually get pleasure from it in, probably not the systemic problem. I’ve not completed Amnesia as a result of I acquired too spooked and look I’ve numerous different games to play, okay, however I’d reasonably hand over because of being overspooked than pissed off. But hey, Hard Mode is totally elective.
Should you want to take a look at your mettle, Hard Mode is now stay (on Steam and GOG, a minimum of) and does have a brand new cheevo for finishing it.
Frictional had stated they’ll add the mode on PC “after” its debut within the Amnesia Collection on Xbone immediately, however I suppose I hadn’t anticipated we’d get it on the identical day. That’s good. Well, good that they’re doing this horrible factor to us? Thanks?
