Your Demo Failed

[superluser]

I hate to say it, but I agree with OP. I'll explain this in comparison to the Penumbra demo (not the tech demo, the regular demo). In that demo, you're thrown into a mine shaft in the middle of nowhere, alone and in the dark. As you round a corner, a dog jumps at you...

DEMO OVER.

I spent a good chunk of Penumbra believing that the dogs were unbelievably powerful and would instantly sense you if you were near. That was a *very* *good* demo. Amnesia, on the other hand, ends with you opening a door where you appear to be safe (or at least safer) than where you were before. It did make me think the water monster would be more difficult than it was, but still.

The fast pace of the demo and the water monster interactions actually caused me to go onto one of the forums I frequent and tell people that while it was good, it didn't look quite as good as Penumbra. I subsequently corrected myself after playing enough of the full game to determine that it was just the demo that wasn't as good.

Amnesia probably does not lend itself well to demos. I don't know what solutions there are, and I don't know what the developers will do with this information, but I think that feedback is important to improve things.