“Did Alexander just happen to go on a trip to Madagascar, look at these and say ‘Aw, hell yes! I totally want a breeding pair of those!’” asked one baffled TVTropes poster. This fact has been noted with some confusion by Amnesia fans. In other words, this clammy 19th century European castle is somehow specifically infested with a species of giant insect from the tropical jungles of Madagascar. If your character walks close to them, though, they hiss at you aggressively. They scurry endlessly around rooms with aimless determination, ricocheting off walls like slow-moving billiards.
And the cockroaches? Let me explain.Īmnesia’s cockroaches are, at first glance, weirdly big but fairly unremarkable video game critters. Its freakout-inducing gameplay basically launched the career of the world’s biggest YouTube star. It’s full of familiar tricks that nonetheless make you jump constantly: snarling creatures that appear at a moment’s notice, a sanity system that torments you with phantom noises, and haunted house touches like banging doors and howling winds. But while these games are plenty creepy, Amnesia still has an unparalleled and unabashed dedication to scares. ‘Amnesia’ has an unabashed dedication to scaresĪmnesia helped establish a whole subgenre of super-vulnerable survival horror, and it has several worthy successors, including Resident Evil VII and Frictional’s own Soma.
