Opinions on how TCR & FG are dealing with AAMFP criticism

[Alardem]

That ignores the detailed comments people have made. The most common objections are not that the game 'wasn't a clone of the first game'.

The details of those comments essentially boil down to 'this thing from Amnesia 1 wasn't in Amnesia 2', so yeah. :p

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No, if it were up to the fans the player would be more involved in the game, would have their hand held a lot less, and would be able to interact more with the environment.

I wish you were right, because that's something I want too. Unfortunately, one thing I'm seeing a lot is that people are whining that the story has nothing to do with the original (because they were on auto-pilot) or that elements that Frictional themselves had second thoughts about (voice-overs in notes, insanity mechanic) were not included.

I wonder what would happen if it wasn't made public that TCR was behind A Machine For Pigs. I personally thought that Dear Esther was boring and not worth the 10 dollars I wasted on it, but AMFP was actually a great synthesis of horror and narrative. Unfortunately, a lot of people throw accusations at AMFP being a 'walking simulator', an accusation that doesn't actually make much sense.