The Bunker is so scary the sanity mechanic is in your own head

I'm really happy that The Bunker found the success it did. Frictional deserves to continue experimenting and changing their formula up. Considering the instability in the industry, I'm so glad they managed to stick around for almost two decades.

Machine for pigs ending with his speech about “this” being your next century referring to WWI went hard

was expecting henri's crimes to be listed as being french

Dark Descent is still my favorite but the Bunker was absolutely horrifying and had the best resource management out of any of their games. Such a wonderful game but I agree with people that it feels like a very well executed prototype to something bigger that they may be working on.

Amnesia main protagonists where all bad people,
The Dark Descent:
-English from London
The Machine for pigs:
-English from London
Rebirth:
-a woman
The Bunker:
-French

0:22 Nintendo had patented the sanity system from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem which is why no other developers did anything with it for forever. I know everyone knows this, but I couldn't pass up a chance to celebrate the good news that AS OF NOVEMBER 5, 2021, THAT PATENT HAS EXPIRED, BABY! 🎉

The Bunker is the advancement that the franchise needed.  The series was still using the gameplay from Penumbra Black Plague.  Now I hope they take this new gameplay and make an amazing story with their next game.

'I wonder what the voice actor has done'

Toby Longworth narrates a great number of the Warhammer 40,000 audiobooks and does them masterfully. I've never been pulled into a book anywhere close to the level Toby has done.

His cadence, change in emotion and clear distinction between various characters is insane. Truly a master of his craft and I seriously recommend the first 3 books of the Horus Heresy to anyone. Even non Warhammer 40k nerds. You'll love it.

7:47 Fully expected you to say "He's French"

I think they should make a game in a big underwater station with a aquatic monster and stuff like that.

Black Plague was just a terrifying experience. When what happens at the end of Overture happens, and you hear the dialogue, it really sets the tone for Black Plague.

Hearing that the Bunker is more like Penumbra than Amnesia made me weirdly emotional. My mother really likes horror games and used to play them often when i was still a child. So when i was in my first semester of uni and had to write a paper about an innovative indie game, i - although never having the best relationship with her - asked my mother for suggestions. She suggested Penumbra.
After taking a look at the game, i was kind of fascinated by it. Of cause it has flaws, but i never played a game, that felt quiet as isolated, threatening and hopeless as this one. Penumbra, to me, is a masterclass of horror and although my paper only got a 2.0 or so (still good in my country, but i expected better), i am still quiet proud of it and it also opened the door for my mother and i having more pleasant conversations. Felt like one of the only real mother-daughter moments we ever shared and i am quiet thankful to Frictional Games for that.

And then when i played the Bunker i had a similar feeling to Penumbra - even if slightly less hopeless, weirdly enough, - so having this connection stated directly in this video was really nice ^^
(I know the connection is really obvious, but just hearing someone talking about Penumbra made me smile)

14:29 You can rotate objects in bunker, you just have to hold T

When playing the Bunker and getting that feeling of Penumbra, I actually put into question if maybe The Bunker is not just a new Amnesia game, but maybe a prototype to a possible Penumbra: Remake. Like attach the prototype to the Amnesia series and see how people felt about the game and if it shows success then they know that it be worth building more on this with a Penumbra: Remake.

15:55 you did NOT just say that 😭 😭

The Bunker is essentially a return to the roots, and i'm all for it.

very few little things bring fear into my heart more than the term 'bubsy' and i'm glad to finally see someone acknowledge it for the horror classic that it is

9:14 haha voicecrack haha

* rebirth/bunker spoilers * Tasi absolutely did something wrong, though it's more of a moral dilemma than outright evil like Daniel or Mandus, she was given a choice by the empress to wait with her until her baby is born and giving it up to her, and in turn the empress would save Tasi and the other survivors.
Tasi refuses, and in doing so the Empress poisons Tasi and the group, which causes them to slowly transform into ghouls, which lets her control Tasi into basically forcing her into leaving the child with her.
The question of whether Tasi is evil for making this choice is interesting, she already traumatically lost her 1st child so obviously leaving her 2nd to a torturous crazy alien queen is a highly unlikely decision for her character, but it does come at the cost of basically dooming her friends
But there's also the argument that since the Empress is a less than honest character, that she would poison or kill the survivors regardless of whether or not Tasi agreed to her terms anyway
Sorry for the blogpost, but I feel people sit on rebirth's lore, it's more nuanced than space zombie virus (which is also the same transformation that lambert underwent after he drank the water from the roman ruins!)

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