AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT (Zero Punctuation)
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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The Dark Descent isn't the kind of horror where you have to scream, but more of the creeped out horror. Paranoia is better than screaming.
***** "Paranoia is the gateway to longevity" --my little brother explaining why his room is booby trapped.
What a profound statement
I'm screaming now and it's dope as hell you should try it I'm screaming so loud hell yeah
ÀAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH hell yeah screaming owns
Terror will always surpass horror
OH PISSING BLIMEY THERES JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS
I lost it at that point.
The World Ends With Jam...
Same
+Adrian Shephard *Whispers* Jaaaaammmmm
+John Rauðúlfr I woke up one morning to find the entire city had been covered in a three-foot layer of man eating jam
John Rauðúlfr
One of my top 5 favorite yahtzee quotes
"Summoned by the auto-save". That shit summons more crap to come kill you than the bloody Necronomicon.
someone should make a movie or game where they are after auto-save so no more monsters would appear
"Oh pissing blimey there's Jam coming out of the walls!"
Was this his inspiration for his Novel, Jam?!
Probably not, watch his dead island review
GT Dusty It's a joke.
"Unmatched constipation aid" is one of the biggest compliments Yahtzee has given to any game.
Just mentally replace the sanity thing with anxiety and it makes tonnes more sense, particularly the symptoms of it getting too high and the use of drugs to reduce symptoms
7 years late, but wow, that actually makes sense!!!
*OH PISSING BLIMEY THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS*
I can only hope there's Yank slang that makes the Brits giggle as much as this. It's delightful.
Brian Fox I lost it when a yank said cockwit
Every now and then I come back and watch this video again and that line still cracks me up.
"try to put as many doors, walls and preferably continents between the mutant and you as possible" true and that line is hiliarious XD
Amnesia easily was the scariest game I have ever played, yes, but it never made me scream like a little girl, like every single exaggerated reaction video on RUclips.
This might be a bit of a spoiler but...
Every single time it freaked me out I just sat there, quietly, holding my breath, as if I were Daniel and I didn't want to scream like a little girl because that would have been a bad idea. Last thing Daniel would have wanted to do was scream so loud that every damn grunt and brute in Brennen-hellhole-burg knew that he was hiding in the morgue, staring in horror at the pile of corpses.
This.
-> sees 9,999 thumbs up
-> adds 1 thumbs up
-> feels fulfilled for another day
***** I would like this comment but then I would ruin the round number of thumbs up you already have and it just wouldn't seem right.
-> Sees 68 thumbs up in this comment
-> Adds 1 thumbs up
-> It only took 3 years. Totally worth it
Pretty much
>attempts to use greentext, but fails in basic formatting by placing "->" instead of ">" (no hyphen)
jesus did i seriously get this bitchy over that
I would say that your jokes rival the effectiveness of Amnesia as a constipation aid because every time you make a joke I can't stop laughing until my nickers inconspicuously turn to the shade of brown.
"Pissing blimey there's jam coming from the walls!" My favorite Yahtzee quote
I wish I could've video taped my reaction to "Abloogy woogy woo"
.
Legendary.
OH PISSING BLIMEY THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS!!
..."before walking slowly over to you plucking a violin and then slapping you in the face with t-bone stake." Sounds like a Finnish restaurant I know.
I like how this 240p video looks better than some 720p videos.
you noticed that too huh??
David Martinez Yup. It's odd.
To be fair it's a series of still images he made in Microsoft paint, different resolutions aren't gonna change much.
haltopen12 Photoshop actually. It also looks cleaner and scales better.
Alex Shannon completed on Microsoft movie maker
"Ooh look, physics, I can throw chairs around like a removal man whos completely stopped giving a shit" XDD
Probably my favorite line in any Zero Punctuation ever: "Oh pissing blimey, there's jam coming out of the walls!"
There's a fourth type of horror: where YOU are the guy in the spooky mask jumping out of closets going "BOO!" before tearing the other guy to bits
Which game is that?
Sailor Italy Manhunt
Ah
Epicmonk117
That should be the next step in Horror games: Make the player becoming the horrid monster and make them terrified of what they're doing.
Steven Choza that's what manhunt does
2:05
When Yahtzee starts panicking, I can sort of hear the game's chase music. You know, that shrill "eeeeEEEEEEEEEEE" kind of sound.
Tee hee hee.
It's called the Terror Meter, boyo.
I....don't....hear it......Do you just mean you RECALL the music or that it's actually in the video? Because I don't hear it at all.
It is called PTSD.
“Darling, make a note of the phrase ‘A-Bloogie-Woogie-Woo’. I like it. I want to use it more often in conversation.”
The reason Daniel loses his sanity when he's in the dark is because he suffers from nyctophobia.
Yep.
Ironically he can remember his phobias without his memories.
+MrTickTickB00Mify Thats not how it works. I'm pretty sure you don't have to remember phobias, when you feel it then you feel weird or then you remember it. Your body remembers how it feels
but remember Daniels Phobia is actually PTSD, also the subconscious is a stubborn SOB
xpseudonym pseudonym Why would daniel have PTSD, considering he drank n amnesia potion?
Still one of my favorite ZP reviews.
ABLOOGY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOGY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicholas Bohlsen aggal baggal waggal
Nicholas Bohlsen
( •ิ_•ิ).....(•ิ_•ิ)...(⊙▂⊙)! OH GOD! ...Yah scared meh (o_O)'
+Nicholas “Bohlsi” Bohlsen THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLLS!!!!!
*RAGGLE FRAGGLE !!!!!!!!!!!!*
AH
variations on "OH PISSING BLIMEY THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS" has become my go-to way to explain well executed surprise and subversion in video games.
Oh pissing blimey, reports of Konrad's survival were greatly exaggerated!
Amnesia still holds a place in my heart after all these years
This was one of the first of Yahtzee's vids I watched. Still one of my favorites.
Oh my god, what I wouldn't give to see a video of Yahtzee doing his 1st run through of Amnesia. It would of been the best Lets Play Amnesia ever. :0
9 years later horror is basically a competition to see how many abloogy woogy woo's devs can pie us in the face with because their so desperately afraid that we'll get bored if we go for more than a few rooms without a jumpscare.
now i know where he got the inspiration for his jam novel from :p
"Oh pissing blimey there's jam coming out of the walls". One of my favorite Yahtzee quotes out of all of his reviews.
Heh, I love this review. The "Three kinds of horror games" bit is one of my favourite little rants by Yahtzee. Great game too, even if I was a bit hasty and foolish to say "This will usher in a new golden era of independent horror greatness!" because fucking Slenderman had to come along and drunkenly piss on everything. I will say though, why does everyone cite the water monster bit as like the single most horrifying part of the game? Granted, that bit was scary and I fucking hate anything living in water (I even have an irrational fear of harmless regular fish. No really, recently I nearly shat my pants playing GTA V when I was running from cops, jumped in water and HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS THAT EEWWWW CLOWNFISH AHH *jumps out and gets twatted on the head by a cop*) but for me The Choir was the scariest bit in the game. Oh god, the huge open area and those fucking torture devices - I KNEW they would do something scary and yet I still panicked the fuck out when the scary thing I knew would happen actually happened.
4:14 to 4:17 = mojang right now
I'd love to have amnesia once. Leave little notes around and have myself a great week.
Hi Frank
WaddyNL Sup
I got amnesia once
I found a video i made while unconcious
Needless to say, it was fucking terrifying by simply existing
VicariousReality7 Total hangover??
May I suggest a novel relevant to this type of situation? The Prague Cemetery.
Years later and I still come rewatch this review. So good lol.
I've never found Amnesia to be all that scary. I'm not some hard-assed mofo when it comes to horror, but Amnesia was just so mind-numbingly boring that it never really got a chance to scare me, because I spent the entire time hoping it would end. Right after finishing Amnesia, however, I tried out Silent Hill 2, and, aside from being one of my favorite games of all time, is also my scariest game of all time. Don't know why, it just scared me to shitpants mode everytime I played it.
Icantdothatrightnow Yeah, same here. Don't get me wrong, I have a very deep respect for Frictional, but SH2 made me want to explore the environment much more. And I couldn't stop gleefully playing with the physics.
I'm kinda the opposite. I just started Amnesia last night and was cringing and grasping my head. Meanwhile, I found SH2 less scary and more sad. Granted, the latter had some creepy parts, but it didn't screw with my mind.
But hey, to each his own.
Jack Van Kirk Aye, I totally understand your opinion. Hell, I understand MY opinion LESS. I feel like Amnesia is scarier, I feel like it SHOULD be, anyway. But I, I don't know. Not sure if I stated it above (I probably did, just too lazy to read my writing again) but Amnesia absolutely bored the shit out of me. And that is not to say that I need games to have combat for me to have fun with them, I love tons of combat-less horror games. But there's something about Amnesia that just bored me to a point of dreading playing it because I knew that every second I played it I would want to stop. Whereas Silent Hill 2 just, disturbed me. I even fear quit it at one point. For the first time in my entire horror-watching, horror-playing, horror-reading life, I fearquit something.
But, none the less, I have tremendous respect for Frictional, and will definitely be checking out their new game.
EDIT: Yeah, I said that I found the game boring in my original comment. Gonna shorten my rant in this comment lol.
+Icantdothatrightnow I really don't understand this. Can you explain what was so terrifying about Silent Hill 2 other than the atrocious voice acting? I understand that art is a totally subjective experience and all, but man I don't understand why people think it's that scary. Hell I even thought Dark Souls was scarier than Silent Hill 2 (and way, way better).
Silent Hill 2 scared me more because of the atmosphere and monster design.
I felt like the atmosphere changed as you progressed through the game to give the maximum effect for what was going on.
I picked up on the gender/sexuality element of the symbolism in SH2 pretty early on. I'm not sure why, but it made me feel really unsettled and uncomfortable. Amnesia was scarier when I was actually playing it, but the horror elements in SH2 stuck with me long after I put the controller down.
To me that's why SH2 is scarier (to me at least).
LOLed at the funny imp parts, with the Yahtzee decapitation and the Joker meter and the jam on the walls! XD So it's no wonder that Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the fourth best game of 2010! XD Oh, and nice mention of the teppanyaki, which is kinda like the cuisine on the hibachi grills! So sweet!
Its a shame that this days the Indi devs are the ones making good games or thinking of something creative
And if there are any good Indi games its being overshadowed by the AAA titles from huge companies because they advertise the living hell out of their bullshit
I mean remember DOTA, it use to be just a mod/ map for W3, made by two guys that though it would be fun, Or Dust Elisian Tail was made by one guy in 4years
Ohh and lets not forget Crap-Com who took a huge shit on 4 Megaman games then flushed it down the toilet, where now a indi team is making Mighty #9
"DAMN YOU CORPORATION" I say
It's because the video game market is highly unstable. Video games costs too friggin' much now that everyone wants "Better graphics" and such, that a team of 3 people can't put it together anymore. It takes millions of dollars, and that is why they can't take any risks, almost every video game company is one failed AAA titled from being bankrupted.
Asger Frederiksen Reason why companies are getting bankrupt is because 1: The economic prices are so ridiculous that people lose their jobs and homes and cant afford socks so how should companies if nobody can afford games and 2: because they fuck the community one too many times and nobody trusts them, Like Capcom or EA, nobody buys their games because they don't want to fucked up the ass anymore
RobertAniFreak That is wrong in so many ways:
Video games are actually at their cheapest right now, if you adjust for inflation. Google it.
Nobody buys their games? Look at Battlefield, one of the biggest AAA titles along with COD.
And capcom... I don't know a lot about their works except for Remember Me, which was absolutely amazing if you ask me. So I'd trust them. I never trust reworks, though.
Oh, and ridiculous economic prices? Oh please, I'm guessing you're from the U.S, because I've heard so much whining from them about a rise in prices of everything. Yeah, it's still cheaper over there than in, say, Denmark.
Asger Frederiksen Thank god I'm not from the US, Capcom pretty much ruined most of their games on its own and canceled 4 megaman games half way trough which means it was a waste of money
And yea BattleFiend lets be honest you have people who bought that game for 7000$
And you have religious extremists, racists and sexists walking around public so You can't argue you have a lot of weirdos in the gaming community... Who think freaking "Ride to Hell" was good, or "I cant see difference between Devil May Cry and DmC"
RobertAniFreak I honestly have no idea what you've started talking about... Also, what *is* the difference between DmC and Devil May Cry?
Abloogy-woogy-woo... I need to start saying that more often XD
"OH PISSING BLIMEY THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS!"
So going to scream that in the middle of my next Science class.
Having now played Amnesia, I can agree that the beginning of the game is nothing in terms of fear compared to what comes later.
As a regular viewer of ZP I really need to get myself an imp hat
Afraid of Monsters does just as well despite having weapons, it's very rare with actual in-your-face jumpscares and monster closets. Most of the scares from from images flickering so fast, in the distance and/or in the corner of your vision that you just wonder if it's your imagination or if you saw an eerily grotesque face flicker in the sky.
The fact that the twitcher enemies are relatively quiet and simply rush at you are just as scary, especially in the forest areas where your flashlight is the stupid GoldSrc aura-of-light-around-the-crosshair rather than a projected texture in Cry of Fear or any Source Engine game and suddenly a twitcher snarls from behind and you take damage in the dark.
If that zero punctuation fan's hat existed I would buy it.
Coming back to this from the newest Amnesia review
omg the "bloogey woogey woo" Almost made me laugh out loud at 11:00 pm!
"Oh pissing blimey! There's JAM coming OUT OF THE WALLS!!!" lol
1:42
That's a jumpscare you've just described, Yahtzee.
ummmmmmm no it isnt.
Elaborate, please.
Jon Squid well, in amnesia, the monsters don't jump out of closets and corners. you can usually hear them or know that something is wrong, but most of the time you only know something is there because you turned arround and saw it, otherwise it may be confusd for squeaky floor boards or the wind.
it's kind of hard to explain, you should go and play the game for bit to get feel for what I'm saying.
t14016807c And so I shall, but I hope you don't mind me setting my expectations low. I'm very picky about my horror games.
Amnesia doesn't practice jumpscares. There's maybe one or two, but most of the scares come on subtly, but make you scare yourself because you recognize the danger. This is a completely different concept from a game like five nights at freddy's, where the scares come suddenly and scare you largely because you heard a loud noise and saw a sudden, disturbing image. There's worlds of difference between the two, the latter requires no talent, and the former requires a carefully constructed atmosphere and execution.
Wow, watching this now the Amnesia collection has been added to Xbox Game Pass and its amazing how little Yahtzee's content has changed. Consistent as ever
Quote of 2011: "Oh, pissing blimey, there's jam coming out of the walls!"
It's definitely interesting to rewatch this now. Especially that bit near the end...
Came back here after JoshStrife plays mentioned it
Same. Ah the glorious 240p days
Ayyy
That line runs through my head more often than I should publicly admit.
"OH PISSIN BLIMEY, THERE'S JAM COMIN OUTTA THE WALL!!"
Thats my favourite line:)
Same here. I first heard it in a YTP. The other line I've been looking for is "And a different source code behind two secret walls and a fire" or something, but I can't find it
+BioActiveScout 629 Was that from a spongebob ytp? The episode where they are on a boat catching the Millionth dollar?
Yeah. And Squidward was bitching about where they were
+BioActiveScout 629 what was the name of that ytp? Its been a while since i last saw one.
This game really scares me, at night, alone, in a dark, drafty room... with water still dripping from the shower I took and... aaargh! I guess it's good for developing paranoia, as now I've taken to always have a knife on hand when exploring the dark crevices of my house at night.
And that's one glowing review from ZP. Wow. I didn't think that guy could utter compliments!
Did Yahtzee ever review P.T.? I know it's barely a game, but I'd still like to see what he thought about it.
"Pissing blimey there's jam coming from the wall" is my new favorite phrase.
"Abloogy woogy woo."
*Subscribed
They can both be pretty funny sometimes, though. They're both very laid back about gaming and just have fun with it, which is nice to see.
4:37
Eternal darkness at least tried a bit more with the Sanity thing
THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS
dear god that's brilliant
Abloogy woogy woo!
Honestly the monsters start to get less intimidating once you realize that the SCARY music starts to go away when they're leaving the area. Basically you just sit and stare at the darkest corner and wait. I hardly ever got caught, but the atmosphere and the monster designs themselves are superb! As well as the story.
Anyone else get the A vs A reference in the credits.
Next time I work in the haunted house I am most definitely jumping out at people and shouting "Abloogy woogy woo"
Neat review, but I honestly doubt there is such thing as a perfect game.
CyberLucifer true
***** what difference will that make? he's just saying that theres probably no game thats actually perfect and at the end of the video yahtzee said "amnesia isnt a perfect game but its almost unmatched as a constipation aid" so he was just saying that there probably exists no such "perfect game"
Tyrone Bryant Final Fantasy VII.
King Reynard I preferred VIII
Ryan Evans VIII!!!?? DID YOU SAY VIII!!? PFF-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH.......... Okay, I respect that :D. Regardless, I didn't find it interesting, and that's funny because it isn't hackneyed like VII. Some of the gameplay mechanincs seemed to trite and tedious, though, maybe I'll give it a try if you think the game's awesome. You should try "The banner Saga." I just bought it on steam as I was originally waiting for it to come for the PS VITA. But I believe it has been delayed, so I went with the steam version.
"It's good to stick to what you know, and Frictional Games is stuck, nailed, and riveted, to what they know"
Abloogey woogey woo.
The scariest part is when your running away and you quickly turn around to see where the monster is and he is RIGHT BEHIND YOU and you turning around has caused you to stop and shit your pants while he rips your face out.
And then PewDiePie ruined everything.
Man, you ever heard this saying?: DON'T TAKE YOUR LIFE SO SERIOUSLY: it's not like you're going to get out alive.
Zelousmarineinspace That grammar hurt me physically.
Oh really? Damn I must be getting better.
***** MrMelongod, you started your sentence with "and" when it should have been started with simply "then". Put your jacket back on and go home.
John Pinkerton Gabe, stop masquerading as somebody else and get back to work. Half life 3 isn't going to complete itself, despite what you may think!
I have been listening/watching your videos whenever I can for fucking weeks. It's open my eyes to new insults and the fact that games I like kinda suck now. The point is, I'll watch a video and see another video where I go "oh I wanna see that other video but I'll finish this video" it's amazing
I agree that Dead Space isnt that scary, but i love it for the gorry actiony part! Its just a very fun shooter! + they presented the pain of a true engineer - as in real life, If you're into any engineering, you're the fucked one!
You study for years and then you're put on a job where you don't get to use that knowledge... Poor Isaac.
"OH PISSING BLIMEY, THERE'S JAM COMING OUT OF THE WALLS. " I now have half eaten banana on my screen. Thanks Yatzhee.
Mission COMPLETE!
didn't Yahtzee make a game with a sanity meter?
@2:08 For those unaware, this in an inside joke referring to Mr. Croshaw's novel, Jam. It's about carnivorous jam.
www.amazon.com/Jam-Yahtzee-Croshaw/dp/1595829571
"I wouldn't call it a great game"
No, you wouldn't. You'd call it a fantastic game.
As a great man once said: Abloogy woogy woo
C'thulu fhtagn... Nope, still here.
2:10 and this moment ladies and gentlemen, inspired Yathzee to write his second novel, Jam.
Why hasn't he done Outlast yet? I mean, really, it looks like it blows the doors off of this game and it's sequel!
Semyon Galtsev Only if you don't play the last part of the game.
Love the 3 different types of horror game category explanation xD
Anyone else here after the rebirth review?
Watching this again while happily awaiting his reviews on Outlast and Machine for Pigs!
This vid is really awesome. The "wibbly wobbly" kinda reminded me of Doctor Who. And the way you phrased things was hilarious. XD
The horror games where you can't defend yourself are the best ones. The fact that you are helpless makes the experience scarier.
CATCH THE FUCKING EGG
Why am I laughing so hard at that
sahazra I don't know either, but I couldn't breathe.
Spoken by a hibachi imp! :D
It's even on YT now!
Exactly what Yahtzee described:A game where you see what's meant to scare you without being scary.
"Abloogy woogy woo" just kills me every time I hear it.
Don't know why but when he says "Abloogy, Woogy, Woo", it makes me EVERY TIME! Anyone agree?
I had to go back and watch this video because Phasmaphobia does option 2 in SPADES!!!! And that's why it is so scary!!!
All I have to say is...I really enjoyed this.
The blurry vision effect is because according to the sanity thing in the items menu you have a horrible headache.
...but I enjoy debating with others. It is a fun way to express my opinions as well as better understand other people's opinions.
I like how he refers to eternal darkness at the ending credits^^
gotta love those games he doesnt call utter garbage. And he liked one of my favorites!
Okay, first time I see a review of yours and I must say, I like your style ^_^
Looking forward to hearing his review on the sequel come September 10th! Well, likely Halloween if the usual timing for Aussie releases keeps up.
the "Green Spleen Submarine" is a good one from RDR
Oh p*ssing blimey there's jam out of the walls. best yahtzee line ever