Thoughts on A:AMFP

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You can, but that's not what Amnesia TDD or MFP shows. They show something completely different; Far Cry 2 does it realistically, in a manner which preserves immersion, but the Amnesia games do not. That's the point. The note reading mechanic in the Amnesia games is no more realistic or less immersion breaking than the inventory mechanic.

I still fail to see how note reading in AMFP breaks immersion, you're reading bits of information about the story as you progress and the ambient sounds are still playing as you read the notes; the game is still running while you're reading your journal or random note. Again, when it comes to realism it's more realistic to read a note than it is to bring up your own inventory menu.

I agree, but the game does provide seamless information on your health (movement rate, blurred vision), and sanity (insanity effects), without breaking immersion, and I agree with the other poster who said the inventory screen is at least akin to looking in a rucksack.

I do agree with the point you make here, personally I didn't find going into an inventory screen an immersion barrier, all I'm doing is going over Bluel0bsters point that it's more realistic to be able to read a note than it is to bring up an inventory menu. An inventory menu is indeed akin to looking into a rucksack, though if we're talking realism I think you'd be in trouble if you found your own heart and brain in a rucksack telling you how you're coping with some of the traumatising events in the game.