Denying fear? Mind over matter? Does it work for you?

[Nycticorax]

Amnesia had its terrifying moments, one of the most intense for me being when you have to escape this thing in the water/the monster wandering on the top floor/ through that rusty door/hidden in the closet, but Overture/Black Plague was just insanely scary. I think this depends at least on the following factors:
- I had not played anything like that before Overture/Black Plague
- the sound, a crucial element for triggering fear, is used I think more minutely in O/BP
- the contrast between (mild) hard logical puzzles and manhunt in the dark was more vivid
- since you had only one source of (continuous) light (torch vs. tinder+oil lamp), you were obliged to creep in the dark, thereby noticing monsters before they notice you)