Just in time for the black Friday sale for anyone who may be interested in this game. Here is my video review:
http://skullbanger.net/2013/11/30/pc-game-video-review-alone-in-the-dark-1/

I apologize for the way this video was recorded. For some reason I couldn't get the game to record right under the normal circumstances and had to look at other ways and this was the best I could come up with.

I hope you find the review helpful.

I enjoyed your video review. Voice was a bit muffled, but it was still clear enough to understand everything, even for me being not a native english speaker. 14 minutes is a bit long for a video review, but you never stopped talking and you had a lot to say, so the length is nothing i would hold against you. Was that all unscripted talk? If yes i am very impressed. The video was very informative and the length was justified by not only being a review, but also giving some backgroudn infiormation. Keep up the good work. ^^

I've watched the video because I love Alone in the Dark. I may say it's pretty good. You described the game quite accurately, mentioned Lovecraft and the fact it's a granddaddy of survival horror games. It's good that you mentioned about clunky controls and great that you said that somehow jumping is not clunky at all because most people would assume it otherwise. It was also worth to mention that Lovecraft fans would probably value this game higher.

You made, however, a few mistakes:
- 25 second long, absolutely terrible intro. You know... I fell lazy today and I do like AitD. Normally I would have close your video after 10 second and would never ever return to it. Sorry for being rough but it's the weakest part of your video. I believe I can speak for everybody here - we have better things to do than watching a lame intro for 25 seconds. In this state it shouldn't be longer than 3-4 seconds.
- "a female, I can't remember her name" wait... what?! I though you were doing a review here?! It wouldn't hurt to prepare yourself a bit and check the name. It would've taken you just a few seconds. Emily Hartwood. She also appears in AitD 3, I think it's worth to mention too.
- you used the same part of video twice (opponent with a wooden leg). Avoid it ;)
- you talk about superb voice acting. You should have presented it right away, not at the end of the video.
- are you aware that you practically spoiled the mirrors puzzle? I know, it was pretty easy and at the very beginning of the game but still. Don't do that. EVER!

Anyway, the video was good. Just change this damned intro ;)

Hey thanks for the feedback and the constructive criticism.

Yeah I know some people don't like the intro. It's my standard intro for the other stuff on the site I do when I interview heavy metal bands and such. I agree it can be a bit long. Sorry you feel put out about that. I can work on the intro.

Yeah, the female character I suddenly drew a blank on when I was recording my voice. I'm kind of new to doing the video reviews of games so I recorded my voice all in one take with no script and when it came to where I was I naming the characters I was like..Oh shit! Sorry about that hahaha

And yes I did use double footage because with this recording I had such a hard time getting ti to record and getting footage at all I finally just used the double stuff...and also..the game isn't OVERLY long with a lot of locations and I didn't want to show everything.

And the mirror puzzle...yes I thought about this before I put it in..but I though too it was at the beginning of the game too so maybe not ruining a lot but I know what you mean. I didn't show where the mirrors were at though either or how to get them so maybe some people will have to do a little hunting hahah.

Oh I did put some of the voice acting at the very end and wanted to put it in where I talked about..but again..being kind of new to the video review stuff I was afraid to split my audio thinking it might mess something up. I'll try to work on that.

Thanks again for the feedback though. I appreciate it. HI! Thanks for the feedback. Yes your team did a great job!

Yes I wanted to add the voice part in at where I was commenting about the voice work instead of at the end...but being so new to the video review stuff I was afraid to split my audio in fear it would sound all messed up. I recorded my audio seperately from the video. But will try to work on this.

Thanks again for the feedback I really appreciate it. Yes my talk was unscripted. I tried to write down some basic ideas to talk about but otherwise I just talked about the game then I recorded the video segments seperately.

I too would have liked to have kept it a bit shorter but couldn't seem to fit all the information in.

Thanks for the feedback I really appreciate the constructive criticism.

Enjoyed that. Your review actually makes me want to play the game again. Thanks.

My small feedback - never start your reviews with some loud music with static backgrounds, because most of the people will stop watching right there.

Just start with a little "hello" message by yourself. Use sound from the game too. Like between you going from one point / paragraph in your review to another, just fade in with ingame sound, let it roll for 15-30 seconds and continue with your review.

You don't need to make this often, but that would make it more lively instead of you just talking.

I liked the arguments you used, the review was good and described the game properly.

I don't think it was because of any limitation exactly. It just took a long time (and a lot of trial an error) to work out how to use keyboard controls in a 3D environment. Even with FPSs it took forever to work out the keyboard + mouse combo we use today. I think Duke3D was the first game I played that used something like it, and even that was a very different experience to today's games (it used the arrow keys and inverted mouse movement, if I remember right).

I remember reading a PC mag from back in the day that had this new revelation about using WASD. It encouraged readers to remap their keys in games that allowed it and try it for ourselves. It was a revolution in gaming!

So yeah, I think controls we take for granted today just took awhile for people to find and then become standard.

well, since you mentioned that.... any chance we'll have the floppy version on gog as well? there is a lot of demand for that one in the forums. seeing some games getting treatment lately (lords of the realm, realms of arkania), alone in the dark with original sound would be really great

Thanks again everyone one for the constructive feedback.

I'm still a newbie on the video game review/editing stuff so I will try to refine the kinks out haha.

Thanks again for taking the time to watch.

Adding my two cents to previous comments.

* Regarding the intro Well, since the standard intro is metal related and games reviews aren't necessarily, how about picking/ making an intro more fitting to reviewing games, especially if you're going to do them on a regular basis? Maybe a slideshow of screenshots of your favorite games?

* Regarding the shout out/ promotion of GOG
Really nice you do this - maybe you could also point out that the games are DRM-free and that there's no region pricing?

* Regarding this specific review
You did a good job at it though the voice acting scene after everything was said and done felt a bit out of place.
I enjoyed the part where you are praising the jump action and how well it works, yet you fail at it and land in the water - probably unintentional but the contradiction was quite funny :-)

Make that 'playing Deadly Premonition' and maybe I can forgive you lack of Judas Plays :) On the other hand, Judas Plays Deadly Premonition would be awesome! And you can show a lot without spoiling the game.

that's good news. I was expecting AitD to be a priority :)