It's a merciless twist, one that evokes a distinct sense of shock, as you stare at your desktop icons, the last image of whatever monstrosity felled you still burned into your retinas. While I doubt the upcoming PS4 collection will so brutally pull you out of the game, I don't think the shock and finality of this feature will be any less acutely felt by players. However, as horrifying as this permadeath system might sound, it is not the main attraction of Justine.
Instead, the game hinges around plumbing the depths of a broken mind. As Justine progresses over its short running time, it becomes clear its 'tests' are a process of unearthing, a slow clawing away at the past and at Justine's psyche, to uncover the unnerving truths beneath.
This idea is one that connects Justine, and the Amnesia series at large, to a history of works that blend both horror and self-discovery. It was the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, who first introduced the image of the iceberg to represent the arrangement of the human mind. His idea was that small, visible tip of the iceberg above the water represented the conscious mind, while the unconscious mind, in which our desires, repressed memories and emotions operate, is represented by the vast unseen block of ice below the surface.
Though this so-called "topographical model" of the human mind has since come under much scrutiny, and the existence of the unconscious mind has even been brought into question, Freud's image and the ideas behind it have remained a compelling conceit for artists, writers and, more recently, developers. Justine is a game spun off from these ideas and images, crafting a psychoanalytical topography out of the series' typical arrangement of stygian dungeons and waterlogged crypts. A journey through these spaces drags the player through both Justine's deep unconscious, murderous thoughts, and her higher carefully ordered, conscious mind.
Its conclusion in particular, without wanting to spoil anything, makes a wonderful use of the topographical model of human psychology to show that it isn't always about descending through layers of buried desire towards some dark secret, but that an ascent to the conscious portion of the mind can be just as disturbing when you know what's hiding underneath.
This transformation of psychological topography into level design layout is something that can be found across the Amnesia series. The direction of travel in The Dark Descent is suggested by its title, but it's the way that this descent ties into a process of self-discovery for the protagonist Daniel that makes it so compelling.
Much attention has been paid to the series' obvious evocations of terror; "sanity effects" that make the screen squirm and your ears ring with wails and tinnitus, pale monstrosities with rasping breath and unearthly screams, but less has been paid to the slow gathering fear of their narratives. All of the Amnesia games are structured around protagonists whose shattered minds are filled with unpleasant things, their histories returning like bloodstains that emerge out of once clean carpets or from behind delicately flowered wallpaper.
These narrative discoveries are mirrored by the growing strangeness of the spaces you navigate in the games, with developer The Chinese Room's ambitious contribution to the series, A Machine for Pigs, demonstrating this most effectively in its journey from precise London town house to hellish production line of fleshy monstrosities.
Each game in the series is, in its own way, both an unearthing of repressed memories and a study of the horror of interior architecture, of its ability to evoke claustrophobia, fear and despair. The collections of rooms and corridors that make up Amnesia's castles, crypts, factories and houses lead like an unsteady train of thought to a perverse conclusion.
And as these spaces are prone to cave-ins, distortions and room-rattling shifts it's also easy to get the sense that they are not real buildings but instead the anatomical passages of some vast suffering creature. A Machine for Pigs makes this idea explicit, its subterranean machine of inhuman cruelty a symbol for the collected human mass of suffering that will take place over the course of the mechanised wars and genocides of the 20th century.
The Chinese Rooms' choice of New Year's Eve as the games setting puts it at the verge of a horror that we know is coming, one bigger than any individual psychological trauma. Yet because of this, A Machine for Pigs, in its powerful and surreal vision, loses something of the intimacy of Justine. And while The Dark Descent has an equal path of unpleasant revelations to follow, its tendency towards the work of HP Lovecraft leads it away from psychological horror towards something more fantastical.
Justine, in comparison, manages to explore its psychoanalytical ideas without being weighed down by them. The result is the epitome of everything the Amnesia series aspires to be. You should see a trap door on the ceiling. Move a number of boxes under it so you can reach it.
Once you can, open it and use the broken ladder in your inventory on the open trap door. Once the ladder is in place, interact with it and you should climb it. In the next section, you are in a small crawl space. It will sound like something is chasing you, but nothing is in actuality. In the tunnel, the correct directions are left, then left, then right, then right, then left, then left.
You should now be able to exit the tunnel and fall out. Head straight and into the room on the left. Head out of the room, then left, down the stairs and into the library. Exit the room and head into the next room on the right. Exit this room and head into the main room on the right, the room with the projector. Face the projector and turn right.
This will unlock:. Still Alive Became aware of the merits of A. Head out of the projector room and enter the first room which is now on your right. Head out of this room and into the room opposite you.
Then head over to the lever with two slide holes and put Slide 4 in the top and Slide 3 in the bottom, then pull the lever. Head out of the room and into the opposite room again.
At the end of this room there is a now open door, heading down some stairs. Before entering this, be prepared as a monster spawns as soon as you enter. This monster will not de-spawn so you will have to run regardless.
See the video below on how to run past it with ease. Once in the dungeon, head straight and through another door, then head into the door on the right side of the room. Head down this tunnel and through another door. You may need to stand on a crate to reach it. Turn around and pick up the lever.
Leave the room and back through the corridor, then use the lever on the door handle, then push the lever up. Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Store Page. Global Achievements. Showing 1 - 15 of 20 comments. Justine is hard I think he means that when he dies in Justine, he crashes. Try goign to the properties and verifying integrity of cache. Last edited by MrMuffinz ; 25 Aug, pm. Rootbeer View Profile View Posts. The game was designed to work like that You are supposed to start over every time you die; there are no save points
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