Should I buy this game?

[hollowleviathan]

The tinderboxes are used to light incidental light sources found around the place - torches and candles, lamps and such. If you don't stay in the light very often, you'll either be easily locatable by unfriendly types, or you'll have to huddle under lamps every so often for a minute or two recovering after a stint in the dark.

It's really not an action game at all, and strongly urges you to role play as the character you're playing more than games like Half Life, where you only control Gordon. In Amnesia, you ought to BE Daniel, feel his fear, find Alexander because your past was wiped and only he seems to hold answers.