Penumbra's Plot

[Froge]

Amnesia's story was better. Daniel's situation touched me a lot more than Phillip's, because I felt much more sympathy for him. With a couple of exceptions, Penumbra lacked the truly despairing emotions such as guilt or shame.

Spoiler below!

The exceptions are when Red and Amabel dies

In Amnesia, from the storage to the end of the game there was a persistent and almost crushing feeling that Daniel had something truly dark on his conscience. It made the final reveal when you reach the torture rooms that much more despairing.


I also don't like the message in the ending of Penumbra: Requiem. Humans are social and conformist creatures and there is nothing wrong with Phillip returning to society, even if being subject to human authority is no different than being subject to the Tuurngait hivemind.

I dislike AAMFP's plot in general. It did make a couple of good statements about how shitty the 20th century was, though.

So IMO: Dark Descent > Penumbra > Machine for shit