Penumbra's Plot

[Bridge]

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.