The 6th generation of consoles were particularly great homes to countless fantastic horror titles, where the genre seemed to really hit its stride with games like Fatal Frame, Siren, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and more. Horror's popularity rose throughout the 90s thanks to titles like 1996's Resident Evil and 1999's Silent Hill, and continued to grow through the early 2000s. First popularized in the early nineties with 1992's Alone in the Dark, survival horror and psychological horror has become a staple within the gaming world and has gotten only more and more popular over time. This fear of the unknown allows the player to scare themselves, which is the greatest trick of all.The horror genre has always been incredibly popular within the world of video games. The scariest part of this moment is the fact that the player never gets to see what the creature actually looks like.
In order to avoid making contact with it, the player must run to the boxes floating on the water and out speed the water monster. They soon come to the realization that a creature lurks within the depths of the water, only evident by the splashes it makes and the monstrous sounds that can be heard. One of the scariest moments of The Dark Descent, in fact, happens relatively early in the game.Īround 4 hours into the game, the player encounters a room filled with water and large wooded boxes.
Humans naturally have a fear of the unknown, so by making the monsters mysterious, the player's imagination is able to run wild, thinking of the most horrifying things imaginable. Enemies that the player will encounter are largely hidden within the shadows of the darkness, making their existence all the more terrifying. One of Amnesia's greatest strengths lie in the player's fear of the unknown. This unique gameplay mechanic paired with a terrifying world and monsters makes for one of the scariest horror experiences ever. Being around enemies (which are attracted to the player's source of light) will also result in lost sanity, so the player has to be extremely careful and strategic at all times.
Losing all of his sanity will result in death, and so staying out of the darkness for extended periods of time is crucial to the player's survival. Being left in darkness will cause Daniel's sanity to lower, which negatively affects both his vision and health. The game is both thematically and visually very dark, with the darkness of the world being Daniel's biggest enemy of all.įurther, The title very cleverly introduces the Sanity Meter, which represents Daniel's current mental state. No other information is given to the player, as the main character suffers from amnesia. In the game's opening moments, the player learns three facts: the character's name is Daniel, he is from London, and his sole task is to kill his master.
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