Fucking Amazing!
This review contains spoilers- you have been warned!
The first time I went through this was so incredibly tense I was sat here shaking with my hand over my mouth. I read the hunter's diary, and that put in my mind a feeling of dread of the house. Then I read the old diary refered to in the first, and the book of Exmortis seemed like my worst nightmare. Then when I got into the safe and saw a book there I knew only bad could happen. The story was excellent, I felt caught up in the dealings of higher beings- not somewhere for mere mortals! When I saw Gwen I clicked on her quickly before she could get away (turns out she wouldn't) but oh. My. Fucking. God. I thought I'd lost!!!
However, from then on I just got stuck. I read a few reviews, and found out I needed to get all the symbols- but I could only find 4, then I found out I needed to get out of the cellar, but the door was still locked. I got pissed off and frustrated at this point, and I closed the game, tried another time in the same way and got stuck again, but then I read a walkthrough and followed it exactly to the cellar- and it worked, but since I'd actually done all the things first time I assume you have to do them in the right order, which is why you only get 9 for interaction. :( That means you read Exmortis first, so you don't get scarred of reading it when you see it, you find out bad things should happen after you read the other books...
I got to the cellar though, and amazingly the tension was picked up again, which shows how good this is!!! I nearly crapped myself running through the tunnels- FUCK! Great game!! It could be better though, it seemed a bit slow, but for tension, I have never seen anything better.
For the people who thought it wasn't scary, I suggest you get into the right frame of mind- you have to believe in the story, then it is terrifying.