Instead, the game hinges around plumbing the depths of a broken mind. However, as horrifying as this permadeath system might sound, it is not the main attraction of Justine.
#AMNESIA JUSTINE PS4#
While I doubt the upcoming PS4 collection will so brutally pull you out of the game, I don't think the shock and finality of this feature will be any less acutely felt by players. It's a merciless twist, one that evokes a distinct sense of shock, as you stare at your desktop icons, the last image of whatever monstrosity felled you still burned into your retinas. But unlike the other games in the series, the punishment for death in Justine is not simply being knocked back to a checkpoint, but instead being booted from the game entirely. These tense encounters are what the Amnesia games are known for, and they are no less unnerving here. Like the other Amnesia games, Justine asks players to stalk through murky vaults while AI monsters track them through the dark. It is by turns campy, odd and once it lets its monsters out, distinctly terrifying.
Save her victims, or orchestrate their grisly ends, the choice is yours.
#AMNESIA JUSTINE SERIES#
Instructed by a series of audiographs that resemble the narration of Portal 2's GlaDOS, Justine puts you under the instruction of its titular aristocrat in her ornate torture chambers. Commissioned by Valve as a tie-in for the release of Portal 2, Justine takes the form of a series of 'tests' that might seem familiar to fans of the Saw films and their brand of funhouse horror. But while those two games blend their mental trauma with occult fascination or machine gods, it is the oft forgotten Amnesia: Justine that doubles down on the idea of a horrifying psychological portrait. It's there in the scattered notes and loading screen exposition of Dark Descent, and even more present in the audiograph ramblings of A Machine for Pigs.
#AMNESIA JUSTINE FREE#
About to be re-released to fresh screams of terror as the Amnesia Collection on PS4 (which includes the two main games, Amnesia: Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs as well as the free DLC Amnesia: Justine) the series is marked not just by an ability to evoke fear, but by something more complex too a fascination with psychological depths that betrays a sophisticated nature. That's the guiding principle of the Amnesia series.
Paintings and drawings are used throughout the Amnesia games to suggest unseen acts of torture and suffering. We've all felt it, we all know it, why not leave it at that?īut what if there's something underneath that fear? What if it's just a mask, a layer, which sits on top of something else? What if we are looking at the tip of an iceberg, but beneath the dark, choppy waves lies a vast unknown mass, a container of emotions, ideas and secrets that we never knew was there. In some senses it doesn't matter: When it comes to video games fear is fun. Maybe it was the draw of the unknown, a desire to plumb the darkest depths in search of something other, something new.
But why? Perhaps it was the rush, the adrenaline of an imagined brush with death. Spurred on by these brave pioneers, players flocked to the game, eager to test their mettle.
The success of the first game in the series, Frictional Games' 2011 Amnesia: Dark Descent, was contingent on its terrifying nature its cat and mouse chases featuring in a hundred Let's Plays and streams, where grown adults hid in corners, faced the wall and whispered to themselves repeatedly that "everything is going to be OK". I've certainly come across several claims that they are the "scariest games of all time" and even a few people have suggested that the games are too scary to complete. If you've heard of the Amnesia games before, then you've probably also heard that they're scary.
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