The Chinese Room have released the latest trailer for Amnesia: A Machine
for Pigs, the follow-up to Frictional Games’ deeply unsettling Amnesia:
The Dark Descent. Set in Victorian London, some sixty years after the
events of the first game, Pigs isn’t a straight continuation of that
story, but a wholly new tale set in the same universe. That doesn’t mean
it won’t be looking to recapture the same sense of giddy terror that
the Dark Descent induced in its hapless, cringing players,
however. We got in touch with The Chinese Room’s boss-man and creator
of Dear Esther, Dan Pinchbeck, to discover how the scares shake down.
It’s fairly true to the spirit of the original game,” says Pinchbeck.
“There’s a definite case of ‘don’t fix what isn’t broken’. We’re not
going to be arming the player up at all – you’re still going to be
hiding for most of it and running and peaking and not wanting to open
doors and things like that. I think that’s kind of the core spirit of
the game really, so we don’t want to take that away from the player.”
That said, Pinchbeck hints at some intriguing changes: “We’ve tried to
do some stuff which will keep the player on their toes a little bit, to
stop them from being able to play the same way. So there’s changes to
the way some of the things behave in the game. It’s difficult to talk
about that without giving too much away really.”
“Part of the game is him picking out his
own path, and kind of understanding who he is, where he’s come from and
what’s going on. As it progresses hopefully the player will, in a
similar way to Amnesia, feel like they’re descending not just into an
underground labyrinth, but into the head of the character. We have an
absolutely fantastic villain, too, that I’m really really pleased with
and very proud of, who I think is maybe even deeper and more than
Alexander was in Dark Descent.”
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