Tenebris Lake Full Conversion

[Kreekakon]

Review Incoming:

I just finished playing this mod for myself, and I have to say it really is one of the scariest mods I have ever played. I'll be honest, the only reason I didn't suffer a mental breakdown from this was because I was already very familiar with the types of scares Amnesia had to offer. In other words, I think if I had played this before Amnesia itself, it would have affected/scared me even more than Amnesia. It's THAT scary. The addition of custom animations only intensified the effect.

At first, I was a bit annoyed by the fact that there was no monster music to warn me, which usually resulted into me running straight into the damn things, but as the game progressed, and I got used to it, I found this to be quite a nice touch on the horror aspect. In later stages when you are used to this system, you won't run into any monsters unless you are running at top speed straight ahead.

The major MAJOR shutdown for me in this mod was the lack of a feeling of the story. Save for the beginning, and the end, most of the story pieces you piece together are simply ways to "torture people". Also, after the premise has been set (Being the castle, and experiments), I disliked the fact that there was barely any plot that happened after the premise itself. What happened? Why did things become like this? What were the events that happened after one another that led up to the moment we are at now in the game?

In the original TDD, you could slowly "open up" the story of Danial finding the orb, encountering deaths, seeking out Alexander, helping him torture people, and finally regret it. The above are just the key events in TDD in simplest terms (TDD made it even better by adding loads of detail to the events). These key events I say are a absolute necessity in these Amnesia sort of adventure games. You need to have enough of these key events AKA distinct ups, and downs in your plot to make it interesting. Have too few, and the story will be dull. In my opinion, Tenebris Lake suffered the most from not having enough of these key points in its plot. Also like I said before, another thing is that the plot was too condensed to the beginning, and the end. You barely pick up anything super essential to the plot midway.

Voice acting is also an issue. I think the VAs could try, and put more life, and emotion into the voices. In my opinion, most of the voices sound quite depressed, and out of breath.

In the end, I still loved this mod massively. The scares were some of the greatest scares I've ever seen in a mod. Things I think could be improved on is a more appealing plotline.

Looking forward to your next work =)