Rafiki wrote:

I liked Amnesia for the most part, but the blur effects, impaired hearing, and so forth (I wouldn't mind removing the heavy breathing) are designed to make you as vulnerable as possible because being vulnerable (in general, aside from the game) is what scares people. So they make you defenseless except for running and hiding, and then impair you for looking at enemies. So if you want to avoid enemies and the impairment effects, you have to run and hide and turn your back (!). But you also get penalized for hiding in the dark too long, forcing you to come out into the open and make yourself vulnerable again. But now your vision and hearing are messed up, making it harder to keep track of enemies. They do have Eternal Darkness insanity effects, but they're very infrequent and mostly stupid. There was one really good one, though.

I liked the game but thought it could have been way better, but I also thought whoever designed it really understood what they were doing and was pretty impressed by it.