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* GenreTurningPoint: Coming from a genre that had wound up stagnating throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, ''Amnesia'' would almost single-handedly revitalize SurvivalHorror for the brand new decade, with it's UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective, [[StealthBasedGame stealth-driven gameplay]], complete lack of combat and InvincibleBoogeymen-driven horror spawning countless imitators and inspiring some of the most well-known titles in both indie and eventually AAA horror gaming. In addition, the game's massive viral success would, for better or worse, make survival horror heavily associated with the Platform/YouTube LetsPlay community from then on afterwards, with many future games in the genre owing a huge chunk (if not the vast majority) of their success to being played and promoted by big-name YouTubers, most (in)famously VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1.
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* HypeBacklash: It's still a good game, but some new players have started to see perceived flaws in certain areas. Depending on who you ask, the monsters look more silly than scary, their AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making them more of a nuisance than a threat. The game also still deploys some cliches of the horror game formula such as [[TeleportingKeycardSquad a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up]].
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* HypeBacklash: It's Inevitable, as ''Amensia'' has long since built a reputation as being one of the scariest video games of all time. Though still regarded as a good game, but some new players great game in its own right, people have started to see perceived begun picking apart its flaws in certain areas. Depending on who you ask, recent years. For starters, to some gamers, the monsters look more silly than scary, their coupled with fairly poor AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making make them feel more of like a nuisance than a dangerous threat. The game also still deploys some common cliches of the horror game formula formula, such as [[TeleportingKeycardSquad a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up]].
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* FoeYayShipping: Alexander/Daniel is a surprisingly common pairing, mostly because Alexander has so many shades of MagnificentBastard to him it's not completely out of the question, and players inclined that way find both their [=VAs=] have sexy voices.
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* FoeYayShipping: Alexander/Daniel is a surprisingly common pairing, mostly because Alexander has so many shades of MagnificentBastard AffablyEvil and EvilIsCool to him it's not completely out of the question, and players inclined that way find both their [=VAs=] have sexy voices.
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* BetterAsALetsPlay: One of the earliest and most well-known examples of this phenomenon. Considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made, people who didn't have the courage to actually play it found out just how entertaining it was to watch other people getting scared by it instead, with the popularity of Amnesia playthroughs/compilations arguably kick-starting Let's Plays' push into the mainstream throughout the early 2010s.
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* BetterAsALetsPlay: One of the earliest and most well-known examples of this phenomenon. Considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made, people who didn't have the courage to actually play it found out just how entertaining it was to watch other people getting scared by it instead, with the popularity of Amnesia ''Amnesia'' playthroughs/compilations arguably kick-starting Let's Plays' push into the mainstream throughout the early 2010s.
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* BetterAsALetsPlay: At the height of its popularity, ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'' was all the rage among Let's Play. It was considered one of the scariest games ever made, which prompted multiple people to be too scared to play it, but love to watch people getting scared by it.
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* BetterAsALetsPlay: At One of the height earliest and most well-known examples of its popularity, ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'' was all the rage among Let's Play. It was considered this phenomenon. Considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made, which prompted multiple people who didn't have the courage to be too scared to actually play it, but love it found out just how entertaining it was to watch other people getting scared by it.it instead, with the popularity of Amnesia playthroughs/compilations arguably kick-starting Let's Plays' push into the mainstream throughout the early 2010s.
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* HypeBacklash: It's still a good game, but new players have started to see the flaws in the horror aspect. Depending on who you ask, the NothingIsScarier parts can get boring after a while, the monsters look more silly than scary, their AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making them more of a nuisance than a threat. The game also still deploys some cliches of the horror game formula such as [[TeleportingKeycardSquad a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up]].
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* HypeBacklash: It's still a good game, but some new players have started to see the perceived flaws in the horror aspect. certain areas. Depending on who you ask, the NothingIsScarier parts can get boring after a while, the monsters look more silly than scary, their AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making them more of a nuisance than a threat. The game also still deploys some cliches of the horror game formula such as [[TeleportingKeycardSquad a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up]].
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Cut per Evil Is Sexy TRS; it's become an objective, in-universe trope.
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* EvilIsSexy: Alexander -- or at least his voice. Daniel too, for many fangirls, though he does seek redemption.
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* NauseaFuel: ''Oh'' so much.
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** Alexander/Daniel pair has gained a shipname ''Xaniel''.
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---> '''Daniel:''' Please! I didn't do anything! [[BlahBlahBlah Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh]].
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---> '''Daniel:''' Please! I didn't do anything! [[BlahBlahBlah Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh]].nyeh.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: ** Alexander/Daniel pair has gained the shipname ''Xaniel''.
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** Yes, even in ''this'' horror-filled game there is still a woobie -- Daniel. His backstory is very tragic, he had an abusive father, he was bullied in school, and his sister was terminally ill. When Daniel stumbled onto the orb, he was constantly followed by the Shadow and all of the people he tried to reach out to got brutally murdered by the EldritchAbomination. He was also manipulated by Alexander into torturing and killing innocents in the hope that it will defend him against The Shadow. When he murdered a girl in cold blood, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he realized what type of person he had become]]. He had to take an amnesia potion in order to be able to get his revenge on Alexander without having the immense burden of guilt on his shoulders.
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** Yes, even in ''this'' horror-filled game there is still a woobie -- Daniel. His backstory is very tragic, he had an abusive father, he was bullied in school, and his sister was terminally ill. When Daniel stumbled onto the orb, he was constantly followed by the Shadow and all of the people he tried to reach out to got brutally murdered by the EldritchAbomination. He was also manipulated by Alexander into torturing and killing innocents in the hope that it will defend him against The Shadow. When he murdered a girl in cold blood, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he realized what type of person he had become]]. He had to take an amnesia potion in order to be able to get his revenge on Alexander without having the immense burden of guilt on his shoulders.
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** The Shadow. Initially it appears to be no more than a characterless spirit, simply there to act as a BigBad and railroad Daniel into completing the game. [[http://amnesia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shadow#.C2.A0Speculation However, certain quirks of its past and present behavior suggests that it is far more complex than that.]]
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** The Shadow. Initially it appears to be no more than a characterless spirit, simply there to act as a BigBad and railroad Daniel into completing the game. [[http://amnesia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shadow#.C2.A0Speculation com/wiki/The_Shadow#Speculation However, certain quirks of its past and present behavior suggests that it is far more complex than that.]]
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* HypeBacklash: It's still a good game, but new players have started to see the flaws in the horror aspect. Depending on who you ask, the NothingIsScarier parts can get boring after a while, the monsters look more silly than scary, their AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making them more of a nuisance than a threat. The game also still deploys some cliches of the horror game formula such as a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up.
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* HypeBacklash: It's still a good game, but new players have started to see the flaws in the horror aspect. Depending on who you ask, the NothingIsScarier parts can get boring after a while, the monsters look more silly than scary, their AI is pretty poor, and the fact that you can easily avoid them can ruin the sense of danger, making them more of a nuisance than a threat. The game also still deploys some cliches of the horror game formula such as [[TeleportingKeycardSquad a monster appearing whenever an important item is picked up.up]].
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** Generally occurs when you're [[ComedicSociopathy laughing at videos of people crapping themselves]], but Jeno, the dude with the British accent, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdLfR0PqLb8 does some things]] that make encounters with monsters hilarious for a whole different reason...
---> '''Jeno''': (''Sees a [[spoiler:Brute]]'s idle animation'') What the fuck is he doing? [[spoiler:RAVING MONSTERS FTW]]
---> '''Jeno''': Oh, fuck this shit. (''[[TooDumbToLive Rushes towards the monster suicidally]]'') [[LeeroyJenkins HEY WANKER! I'M GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE]] -- (''Gets cut down'')
---> '''CaptainObvious''': ...Did he see you?
---> '''Jeno''': Mmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaabbbyyee.
---> '''Jeno''': (''[[TooDumbToLive Jumping around in the open near a monster]]'') COME ON MONSTER, YOU WANNA PARTY WITH ME? COME ON, MAN, LET'S PARTY! (''Gets cut down '''again''''') OH, FUCK. AW, COME OOOOOOONNNN.
---> '''Jeno''': [[NakedPeopleAreFunny HELLO, NAKED MAN.]]
** Pretty much anything related to the ''"penis penis penis"'' RunningGag is comedy gold.
---> '''Jeno''': (''Sees a [[spoiler:Brute]]'s idle animation'') What the fuck is he doing? [[spoiler:RAVING MONSTERS FTW]]
---> '''Jeno''': Oh, fuck this shit. (''[[TooDumbToLive Rushes towards the monster suicidally]]'') [[LeeroyJenkins HEY WANKER! I'M GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE]] -- (''Gets cut down'')
---> '''CaptainObvious''': ...Did he see you?
---> '''Jeno''': Mmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaabbbyyee.
---> '''Jeno''': (''[[TooDumbToLive Jumping around in the open near a monster]]'') COME ON MONSTER, YOU WANNA PARTY WITH ME? COME ON, MAN, LET'S PARTY! (''Gets cut down '''again''''') OH, FUCK. AW, COME OOOOOOONNNN.
---> '''Jeno''': [[NakedPeopleAreFunny HELLO, NAKED MAN.]]
** Pretty much anything related to the ''"penis penis penis"'' RunningGag is comedy gold.
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** This exchange:
---> No, this sounds like the monsters are having buttsex.
---> SA-WEET!
** And later:
---> (''hears monsters groaning'') NICE! They're having buttsex in there!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozqRA8kJXA#t=19m35s Jesse Cox, the Monster Slayer.]]
** A Let's Player named [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaoticMonki Cry]] has taken to playing a number of the downloadable custom stories created by Amnesia players. Luckily for us all, he seems to have a great knack for turning a terrifying encounter with a bloodthirsty monster into utter hilarity. This probably has a lot to do with his somewhat eccentric habit of holding lengthy conversations with inanimate objects in the game, such as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwnzxakIMA&t=2m48s wardrobe,]] a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yz0KtELYxc&t=6m8s statue of Jesus]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37MUNA7enc&t=11m9s "Mr. Cog".]]
** The ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'' [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=10529 play-through]], between [[PungeonMaster Rutskarn's puns]], [[{{Troll}} Josh's playstyle]] and [[CausticCritic Shamus' complaining]], took the mickey out of the entire game. The highlights climaxed with Josh ending up ''riding a monster'', making everyone lose it.
--->'''Rutskarn:''' Just bunny-jumping down a corridor, haunted mansion, real spooky: "doot doot doot doo".\\
'''Shamus:''' The monsters are all like, "I'm not going after him; that's a ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' player, screw that guy."
** Lanipator is just so calm when he played. He makes the game look like an average scary game. He makes great jokes. He makes the scary moments funny by mocking Daniel's weakness or demonstrating how stupid the monsters are. He doesn't usually scream when something scary jumps out. He just uses logic and hides or runs away all the while staying focus on how he can survive. It's just unbelievable how calm he is. He even lampshades it. It's almost like it's just another day at work for him -- perhaps because it is?
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGKUk2vIJE This video]] uses a mod that replaces the voices of the monsters with the yells of the guy from the yelling at cats video. It takes the eeriness out of the game, and makes you laugh your ass off.
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7OA5ccTOY Gets stuck in a labyrinth with a grunt]]. It's scary at first until she blacks out and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide and awakens with the screen turned red]]...and then [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted rushes back to the grunt]].
--->'''Fluttershy''': You're...going...to LOVE MEEEEEEEEEE!
** The severed dog's head becomes NightmareRetardant if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7JWBvc8Vk4&feature=related#t=05m30s have a sick sense of humor]].
---> No, this sounds like the monsters are having buttsex.
---> SA-WEET!
** And later:
---> (''hears monsters groaning'') NICE! They're having buttsex in there!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozqRA8kJXA#t=19m35s Jesse Cox, the Monster Slayer.]]
** A Let's Player named [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaoticMonki Cry]] has taken to playing a number of the downloadable custom stories created by Amnesia players. Luckily for us all, he seems to have a great knack for turning a terrifying encounter with a bloodthirsty monster into utter hilarity. This probably has a lot to do with his somewhat eccentric habit of holding lengthy conversations with inanimate objects in the game, such as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwnzxakIMA&t=2m48s wardrobe,]] a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yz0KtELYxc&t=6m8s statue of Jesus]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37MUNA7enc&t=11m9s "Mr. Cog".]]
** The ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'' [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=10529 play-through]], between [[PungeonMaster Rutskarn's puns]], [[{{Troll}} Josh's playstyle]] and [[CausticCritic Shamus' complaining]], took the mickey out of the entire game. The highlights climaxed with Josh ending up ''riding a monster'', making everyone lose it.
--->'''Rutskarn:''' Just bunny-jumping down a corridor, haunted mansion, real spooky: "doot doot doot doo".\\
'''Shamus:''' The monsters are all like, "I'm not going after him; that's a ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' player, screw that guy."
** Lanipator is just so calm when he played. He makes the game look like an average scary game. He makes great jokes. He makes the scary moments funny by mocking Daniel's weakness or demonstrating how stupid the monsters are. He doesn't usually scream when something scary jumps out. He just uses logic and hides or runs away all the while staying focus on how he can survive. It's just unbelievable how calm he is. He even lampshades it. It's almost like it's just another day at work for him -- perhaps because it is?
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGKUk2vIJE This video]] uses a mod that replaces the voices of the monsters with the yells of the guy from the yelling at cats video. It takes the eeriness out of the game, and makes you laugh your ass off.
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7OA5ccTOY Gets stuck in a labyrinth with a grunt]]. It's scary at first until she blacks out and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide and awakens with the screen turned red]]...and then [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted rushes back to the grunt]].
--->'''Fluttershy''': You're...going...to LOVE MEEEEEEEEEE!
** The severed dog's head becomes NightmareRetardant if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7JWBvc8Vk4&feature=related#t=05m30s have a sick sense of humor]].
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---> No, this sounds like the monsters are having buttsex.
---> SA-WEET!
** And later:
---> (''hears monsters groaning'') NICE! They're having buttsex in there!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozqRA8kJXA#t=19m35s Jesse Cox, the Monster Slayer.]]
** A Let's Player named [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaoticMonki Cry]] has taken to playing a number of the downloadable custom stories created by Amnesia players. Luckily for us all, he seems to have a great knack for turning a terrifying encounter with a bloodthirsty monster into utter hilarity. This probably has a lot to do with his somewhat eccentric habit of holding lengthy conversations with inanimate objects in the game, such as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwnzxakIMA&t=2m48s wardrobe,]] a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yz0KtELYxc&t=6m8s statue of Jesus]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37MUNA7enc&t=11m9s "Mr. Cog".]]
** The ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'' [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=10529 play-through]], between [[PungeonMaster Rutskarn's puns]], [[{{Troll}} Josh's playstyle]] and [[CausticCritic Shamus' complaining]], took the mickey out of the entire game. The highlights climaxed with Josh ending up ''riding a monster'', making everyone lose it.
--->'''Rutskarn:''' Just bunny-jumping down a corridor, haunted mansion, real spooky: "doot doot doot doo".\\
'''Shamus:''' The monsters are all like, "I'm not going after him; that's a ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' player, screw that guy."
** Lanipator is just so calm when he played. He makes the game look like an average scary game. He makes great jokes. He makes the scary moments funny by mocking Daniel's weakness or demonstrating how stupid the monsters are. He doesn't usually scream when something scary jumps out. He just uses logic and hides or runs away all the while staying focus on how he can survive. It's just unbelievable how calm he is. He even lampshades it. It's almost like it's just another day at work for him -- perhaps because it is?
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGKUk2vIJE This video]] uses a mod that replaces the voices of the monsters with the yells of the guy from the yelling at cats video. It takes the eeriness out of the game, and makes you laugh your ass off.
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7OA5ccTOY Gets stuck in a labyrinth with a grunt]]. It's scary at first until she blacks out and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide and awakens with the screen turned red]]...and then [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted rushes back to the grunt]].
--->'''Fluttershy''': You're...going...to LOVE MEEEEEEEEEE!
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** The crescendo is the end, when he tosses it away and you hear glass smashing off-screen.
** Same goes for the stuffed rabbit. Watch Lanipator's let's play for the moment.
** Gineriella typically freaks out in her ''Amnesia'' Lets Plays, but in one particular part she is so drunk that rather than being scared she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzSrMA1WfE spends the entire video cracking jokes and essentially mocking the game]]. Even when being chased by a grunt, whom she dubs "Scary Man", she decides to just laugh and run past him.
---> Is Scary Man there? ''(grabs barrel)'' I will take this barrel and I will [[AssShove shove it right up his ass]].
** Same goes for the stuffed rabbit. Watch Lanipator's let's play for the moment.
** Gineriella typically freaks out in her ''Amnesia'' Lets Plays, but in one particular part she is so drunk that rather than being scared she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzSrMA1WfE spends the entire video cracking jokes and essentially mocking the game]]. Even when being chased by a grunt, whom she dubs "Scary Man", she decides to just laugh and run past him.
---> Is Scary Man there? ''(grabs barrel)'' I will take this barrel and I will [[AssShove shove it right up his ass]].
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* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Amnesia'' might have popularized the concept of a sanity meter, but it certainly wasn't the first to have one. The Sanity Meter was patented by Nintendo with their game ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' in 2002. However, the earliest example of one is ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheComputerGame'', which was released in ''1985.''
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** There are instances of a portrait of Alexander around the game. If your SanityMeter is low enough, [[CreepyChangingPainting it changes]] to a [[NightmareFace monstrous inhuman face]] that ''is'' spooky in a vacuum... but has been widely compared to the face of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s notably goofy-looking Creeper.
* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Amnesia'' might have popularized the concept of asanity meter, SanityMeter, but it certainly wasn't the first to have one. The Sanity Meter was patented by Nintendo with their game ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' in 2002. However, the earliest example of one is ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheComputerGame'', which was released in ''1985.''
* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Amnesia'' might have popularized the concept of a
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** Gineriella typically freaks out in her Amnesia Lets Plays, but in one particular part she is so drunk that rather than being scared she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzSrMA1WfE spends the entire video cracking jokes and essentially mocking the game]]. Even when being chased by a grunt, whom she dubs "Scary Man", she decides to just laugh and run past him.
--> Is Scary Man there? ''(grabs barrel)'' I will take this barrel and I will [[AssShove shove it right up his ass]].
--> Is Scary Man there? ''(grabs barrel)'' I will take this barrel and I will [[AssShove shove it right up his ass]].
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** Gineriella typically freaks out in her Amnesia ''Amnesia'' Lets Plays, but in one particular part she is so drunk that rather than being scared she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzSrMA1WfE spends the entire video cracking jokes and essentially mocking the game]]. Even when being chased by a grunt, whom she dubs "Scary Man", she decides to just laugh and run past him.
--> ---> Is Scary Man there? ''(grabs barrel)'' I will take this barrel and I will [[AssShove shove it right up his ass]].
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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Well, it's a SpiritualSuccessor rather than a direct sequel to ''Penumbra'', but either way it's amazingly improved over their last effort.
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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Well, it's a SpiritualSuccessor CreatorDrivenSuccessor rather than a direct sequel to ''Penumbra'', but either way it's amazingly improved over their last effort.
