Amnesia: Justine Discussion Topic

[Diz]

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Thanks everyone there is one more thing I still don't understand though: if I am indeed playing as Justine then why is it the recordings that you hear are by Justine? she even says something like "don't bother looking for me, because this is a voice from the past" implying that she is dead. I am still very confused that I am actually Justine and not someone else. How or why would she make those recordings for herself?!
At first the story leads you into thinking you're just some random prisoner, but towards the end it implies that you are actually Justine. It is really confusing me. I'm going to do a second play through of it today.

She knows by previous experimenting that the overdose will give her a temporary amnesia effect, and she takes advantage of this by tricking herself into thinking she is imprisoned by someone else, a villain that she cannot control. The study requires that she must do this. By believing that she is trapped in a terrifying and life threatening situation, that she is an innocent prisoner during it all, she has the best possible grounds for studying her own psyche. If she knew that she herself stood for the entire act, she would risk jeopardizing the entire study and its results, seeing as it would be partially biased and not as fresh and threatening of an experience as it should have been. She chose to remove any sense of security (as far as it was possible, anyhow), which would include to make her believe she was being tested/surveilled by a wicked villain. ^^

Then there is the age issue. Though the recordings make Justine sound older the story (like in the first area) leads the player to thinking she is actually younger. Like how her friends "play" together down there. Then in the last part where you're called for dinner by the maid/servant one would think that a child would be called to dinner...

Hmm. Correct me if I am wrong, as I have not played this expansion pack for a while, but I believe the notes regarding her childhood are describing events of the past. This can be confirmed by the fact that the same notes describe her talking to her father, while toward the ending, she talks about how she eventually decided to kill him.

One of Justine's prisoners still refer to Justine as a child, a twisted one at that, but that might have been intended as barely underage, mentally ill or simply much younger than the prisoner himself.