Luckily, the game is merciful enough that your first pull of the lever only triggers the trap part way - the pyramid lowers itself over the man’s chest. Without an exit to the room, and for lack of ideas of where to go from there, the player is tempted to pull the lever. In that cell is a man tied to a table with a bag over his head and a red hot pyramid pointing down above his chest. It’s a room with cells lining either side, all of them unlocked except for one. What she means by “they can all be saved” becomes clear only once you’ve entered the first room. Just remember they can all be saved, there is always a way.” Please go on, move into the next chamber. “There are a few parts to this study and it is up to you - not only to pass, but figure out what elements are important. It will serve you no purpose to look for me, for this is a voice from the past.” She goes on to explain that she’s placed you in her “Cabinet of Perturbation”, meant to study your psyche. She begins by saying, “Bienvenue, you are now listening to the sound of my disembodied voice. The phonograph plays a recording that Justine has made for you to explain your situation. You play an initially unnamed, unseen woman who wakes up in a locked cell with a phonograph.
Like GLaDOS, the character Justine is the unseen antagonist of the game whose voice instructs and informs you as you progress through the halls of the mansion basement she has left you in. For this entry, I’d like to introduce you to Justine Florbelle, the questionably sociopathic main character of one of the scariest games ever made. Amnesia: Justine hits all the points I love in horror - unseen danger, choices that question the character’s morality and sanity, unreliable narrators, dark histories, exposure to the darkest, deepest pits of humanity, and monsters that are both horrifying and pitiable. It’s unfortunate that my favorite video game is one that few people will play despite owning it: Amnesia: Justine, which came bundled with the legal edition of Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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