Amnesia: Justine Discussion Topic

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1. That's an interesting question actually. It depends on how you define "insanity". Insanity can be caused by many things. Some can be physiological causes, like hormone imbalances, having a grenade splinter stuck in your brain... stuff like that obviously wouldn't be affected by an Amnesia potion.

However in Justines case, her insanity mainly stems from childhood trauma, namely from the psychological experiment her father made on her and from growing up without her mother. (although it is mentioned in the wiki that she was also already born with a mental illness... I think the details here are open for interpretation.) So if a potion makes her temporarily forget all those memories, it could indeed pretty much turn her into a blank canvas again.

2. Magic. Or maybe the machinery was designed in a way so that the prisoner's restraints would automatically be released after a certain amount of time. At least for the first and second guy this could work since you don't see the exact mechanics around them and they could have then freed the third one. Also at least Alois and Basile have no business killing other prisoners, they just want Justine. And Malo probably went somewhere else to...do kinky stuff.

3. No idea...have to play again.

4. They weren't exactly lazy, making an animated character just takes a lot of time compared to, say, a piece of wall and they only had one character artist So making three enemy models for a small (and free!) addon where even the original full game only had two would have been too much work.

5. Gameplay reasons I suppose...

6. Well, the door is locked and only Justine has the key. Also Clarice is her long time childhood friend (the only one she ever had!), so if Justine tells her to please not snoop around in her cellar and disturb her families graveyard, she probably doesn't even think of betraying her friends trust.

7. Gameplay reasons. It's supposed to be claustrophobic and scary. In terms of architecture - underground ventilation system probably.

8. Same problem as with the torches in the original Amnesia, eh? Let's just assume she lit them on her way and that candles and torches in the Amnesiaverse are magical entities that burn forever.

9. Yeah I agree it would have been better if it were wooden doors. As for the prisoner, what counts is that Justine wants to save him, not if it would really work. It's a test of her personality, nothing more. Besides, if Malo doesn't know there's a prisoner behind the door, why would he smash it? It's not like he can smell him.
As for the level door... well it would have been awkward if the chase didn't end there. I mean following that logic, he could have broken through the next door too, and through the cellar door... basically by making the mistake of putting metal doors in the chase sequence they established him as an unstoppable Juggernaut which bends the logic of the whole ending a bit. So instead, let's just assume that he got tired and gave up on the chase to gnaw at his own flesh some more.

10. The first prisoner can't see you. He's blindfolded. So he just assumes you are another one of Justine's prisoners who somehow got free.