With the upcoming Remastered and Reworked Version of the Game it might be a good idea to keep a link to the Original v0100 (before Remaster/Rework) as is done with other games.
I played Amnesia a couple years ago and I played it recently from start through to end of current content.
My impression is that hiring the team has started to turn the game into
a different game with different story.
It is obvious that the developer started working on the project without having a ready plot, at least in the most general outline, except for the initial episodes. Some storylines have disappeared into obscurity. For example, how many people will remember that MC had to continue his education (can't remember where - college or university). It is unclear where Alexandra's sister and her strange daughter went, and it was from her that we learned that MC was a talented photographer before the accident. A strange couple that MC encountered during his first visit to the mall - clearly someone from his former life. And there are too many sagging storylines like this. The main plot hasn't progressed for about a year now. I.e. it's obvious that we're facing a classic case of “writer's block”.
- The game in 2020 started with lots of small decisions like watch and touch different regions of characters, different dialog options, etc. The game design seemed to be : "Every Choice Matters".
- After awakening from coma MC had lewd visions about several girls.
- The game suggested that there are lots of secrets to discover about mc's year before the coma, how he fell into coma and the coma year itself. The punks at the mall, Eva, Kate, Elena, Alexandra, Tanya and Cally ... they all should have clues to the mc's former life and his sexual adventures in the past, maybe with the option to renew some of these relationships ...
(Legally going back 2 years in time is a difficult terrain since eg Elena is just 18 year old, so in past scenes with her she would be only 16-17 years old.)
- The dinner quarrel with Tanya suggested that Tanya may know more about how mc fell into coma, maybe a fight between Tanya and jealous Alexandra for mc was the cause ... which would have explained why Alexandra avoided to tell mc the reason for his coma.
- The vision about Iris as well as mc's good condition after awakening from coma suggested that Iris and the doctor maybe performed additional secret (sexual) tests and treatments on mc while in coma, maybe they even tried to reprogram his sexual mind, although I have no clue into which direction. My mc is (still) a huge pervert. Anyway : Iris seemed to be an important key to mc's story.
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The game was also heavily hinting that Alexandra is a stripper/prostitute, considering she leaves for "work" at night in sexy dresses and comes back in the morning. That storyline was also quietly dropped without explanation ...
There are a lot of hints in the early game like the revealing comments by Krystal, the poster in the Mall, the sexy high heels in Alexandra's room, etc
Krystal "And by the way, Alexandra" ... "We`re glad to have you back"
- The more recent parts of the game do not feature many decisions. Most events seem to happen anyway depending on mc's progress with the different girls and within the story, so it now feels more like a sandbox telling a kinetic story without much choice.
- MC has no more lewd visions.
- While Alexandra avoided mc's questions about the coma in the early game, it is now just an insignificant event, some "boy loves girl" thing, he bumped his head and that's it ... no reason to ask again since there is no story. (Why didn't she tell that at the start of the game?)
- Eva's story was rewritten. If you talk with Kate and Eva in the first part of the game they tell a different story about Eva and how they met than Kate and Eva tell in recent content. (In first version she is 2 years older and Kate's friend and mc asks Kate for sexual advice.) While mc and Eva had a kinky relationship before the coma, it is now all in the past. MC cannot remember anything. Eva leaving the city in fact removes her character from the game and so removes a valuable key to mc's past before the coma.
(While I like the Eva character model, I don't like the scenes with her, especially not the recent cheating/cuckold part. The scene at the mall was ok, but without real follow up it seems to be just a wasted opportunity and effort.)
- Iris' story also seems to be complete. Instead of secret sexual therapy and experiments, it all turned into an arbitrary story about a rebellious daughter fighting with her father (Dr. Freeman) to become a rockstar. Nice generic story but for a different game. Not what I expected and in no way related to an "Amnesia" mystery. By closing Iris' storyline they also removed the probably most important key to mc's year in coma. Without Iris there is likely no story behind the coma.
- While earlier comments by Kate suggest that she was sexually experienced and she and mc had a rather close and "tolerant" relationship, in the newer content Kate has a depression and (althouh being in her twenties) is still sexually inexperienced and traumatized by her previous relationship.
- As mentioned before by Enot, there are lots of started but unfinished (and by now probably forgotten) story lines, eg Tanya and Cally, the mysterious punk couple at the mall but also the girl Joan in the clinic.
- As mentioned by se20299, it seems that the whole Krystal/stripper/prostitution story line was dropped.
Alexandra now works "for a major international consulting company" "as a business analyst".
She has her own office and mc can start to work for her ...
Imho :
The recent content created by the new dev team is not bad but it feels like content for a completely different (arbitrary) corruption game ("You take control of a guy living with three beautiful women. bla bla bla")
It seems like they abandoned the whole original "Amnesia" mystery story and now started to get rid of additional characters (Eva, Iris) ...
What is the the point to still name the game Amnesia if there is no story behind the amnesia?
Next consequent step would be to also remove the coma/amnesia parts from the game and rename the whole game to something like "Generic Corruption Game" ...