Luckily for Horror fans, Frictional Games came to the rescue and reignited interest in the genre with the release of The Dark Descent.
The results of these shifts into the third person action genre have been less than satisfactory in the case of the Resident Evil games, with the abysmal Operation Raccoon City and mediocre Resident Evil 6 having tarnished the name of the series. Publishers of great Survival Horror games such as Resident Evil and Dead Space have, to a large extent, turned their back on the genre and instead opted to pursue a much more action focused experience. sia (n) partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness.”Īmnesia: The Dark Descent was widely regarded as a masterpiece in what was considered to be, at the time of release, one of the most depleted genres of gaming : Survival Horror.
