Stumbling through Amnesia - Part 1

I keep on saying (now and then) that despite the impression that I may have given over the last few years, I'm not really a fan of horror games. Starting when I got my hands on Silent Hill some time around 1999, it's just been the case that I somehow get roped into playing them as people keep on giving me them to try. It must be said that I have a respect for things that scare me cleverly, though, and they have a great viral appeal in that you can pass them around either to spread the pain or just to see if people are as traumatized as you were.

I had told people... quite a lot that I definitely wasn't going to play Amnesia, then quadralien went and got it for my birthday, so I felt I should at least give it a try. And I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to share my reactions with the world - though it must be said that the game has started slowly compared to my expectations, with only a couple of involuntary noises from me. In fact, I think the party that ended up most distressed from the experience was the plant ten minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsvrbo0tJw

I did about twenty minutes of it, then decided it would be better to upload it in multiple parts instead of one megavideo and edited what I had. Thanks to a Christmas present from Whitney's parents, I've now moved on from iMovie (which, to be fair to it, is pretty decent for a free program and can out-video Windows Movie Maker in virtually every respect) and am using PowerDirector, so having eliminated the need to work on two computers at the same time I can put these things together a lot more quickly.