

Every plot summary I've seen of it since finishing it has seemed to mostly miss the point.)ĭa LoNg CoUnT eredeti hozzászólása:I didn't think Dark Descent was very fun or compelling, but it was a lot scarier. There's politics and economy and some element of supernaturalism in there sure, but focus on the absurd raw physicality of what you're seeing and it's pretty horrifying. (And as another aside, like Kafka, it's important that you don't overthink the plot details in Pigs. Maybe just get Penumbra, which holds up really well still and it's not like Dark Descent really added much. I wouldn't recommend either to someone for whom fun gameplay is a major issue - I'm not a person who always needs a game to be 'a game', but I understand entirely why most people do. I wouldn't recommend Dark Descent very highly to anyone, and I'd only recommend Pigs a bit more to someone who likes a different kind of horror story (Pigs is more early modernist like Kafka or really dark Gogol, Dark Descent is more gothic or romantic). I think more fondly on the time I spent with Pigs than I did with Dark Descent, but honestly I think the Penumbra series was the best Frictional has done.

A Machine For Pigs had a much more interesting environment and a massively compelling story, but it wasn't very scary or challenging. I didn't think Dark Descent was very fun or compelling, but it was a lot scarier.
