Amnesia: A Coward's Debt [FULL RELEASE]

[WALP]

Amnesia a coward's debt - Review
by The Mug

The custom story shows it's strengh primarily in it's use of tension. It knows when
to use sounds and music(as well as when not to), and the maze like dark corridors
will make you paranoid as you open door after door. Especially the horrifying new monster
that stalks these corridors adds to this. Even though I managed to mostly avoid it in
my playthrough, it's sounds and freaky movements kept me paranoid.

As well the mod shines of polish almost everywhere, to an extend that it is only in few
instances it displays itself as being a mod. The mapping is average but never ugly,
however it is certainly rarely pretty either. This is shown not just in that it rarely goes
far with detail, but most importantly in just how averagely designed the maps are.
Expect to walk from generic mansion room to generic mansion room, where you will
find few distinguishing traits, repetition and an overall a lack of general personality to
the indidual areas. Finally you shall most certainly see no trace of environmental storytelling.


"What will you do now" the female voice asks me.
Why I will of course sit down in this very generic room waiting for the meal to arrive.

Not just is the mapping generic, but so is the underwhelmingly simple and predictable story.
In terms of it's execution , I would say that it here shows it's polish too, and fits the
pacing of the mod, but still not doing anything significantly good. You can understand
the plot, but there won't be much to feel. This is especially because one of the
most important characters Evangeline, get's barely any attention, leaving the
player with no proper reason to care for her.

Puzzles also keeps themselfes completely from improving the storytelling, or even
interacting with the story in anyway. They only serve as tasks for the pacing.
often I however found myself instead having to look around all these similar rooms
for a solution long enough for the tension to dissappear, leaving me sprinting
all over the place. Appart from removing tension and being unrelated to the story,
the puzzles neither manage to be engaging in themselfes or
doing anything you have not seen before.

A cowards debt is a well polished custom story that shows much potential,
but appart from filling us with fear and tension towards a freakishly moving monster,
it falls average in every aspect. Even it's story that seemed to be an important focus for it.

Overall Rating: 5.68 out of 10