Penumbra's Plot

[VaeVictis]

I'm not saying these things weren't sad, but moments like those tend to show a person's character in real life, and I just felt like Philip could have had more of an emotional range at these times.

To be fair that's hard to do with a silent protagonist. Phillip isn't silent in the same way Gordon Freeman is, but they could only write what he was thinking in first person. Still, I found these moments to be quite effective, speaking about my experience of course. I didn't get a "whoops" vibe from it, although to say they were perfectly executed would be silly.

@BAndrew:

Spoiler below!

Dream sequence, all of the times Clarence gives you false stimuli (which account for most of the surrealism) and the Tuurngait trials you mentioned.

Yeah, I'll give you that. The silent protagonist is a limitation, but at the same time I feel like flashbacks/memories/voices from the past could've have helped. Or even some feedback from Philip in the form of gasping and such would have been more effective then nothing. I can only speak to my experience with it, though, and it broke the immersion effect for me.