Week Twelve Games as a Medium: Amnesia, The Dark Descent

This week for class we're discussing games as a medium and are suppose to write about our favorite games. Although I wouldn't say this is my favorite game I will say this fits this subject probably the best. 

I've chose to discuss Amnesia, The Dark Descent. Which is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, released in 2010.

This is a game about immersion and being frightened. Every book I've ever actually liked has been immersive and I think thats every books real goal and Games, especially this one, does that for the most part. Putting the player in an actual world were they themselves live the story instead of reading it. The freedom to make different choices and see the consequence first hand.

I chose to write about this game, because it is extremely good at making the player feel like they are in actual danger. I couldn't play for very long before I became nervous and extremely jumpy and had to take a break. This game is extremely immersive and does very well at setting the mood with low music and a dark castle that you must figure out how to pretty much do everything.You play as Daniel, who is a young man from London and he awakens in the dark empty halls of a Brennenburg Castle with almost no memory about himself or his past. He can remember his name, and that something is hunting him. He has a note written to himself, which tells him that he deliberately erased his own memory and is being hunted by a shadow, the note tells him to descend into the inner sanctum of the castle and kill its baron name Alexander.