Just finished it, HA! I thought it was mostly pretty good. Obviously it doesn't have shit on SOMA, and I need to replay Dark Descent to see how it compares with that. I do have quite a few quibbles with it though, some minor some major.
The fear/insanity shit really started to grate on me. They're just obnoxious as fuck. The black tentacles covering the screen, that ear raping sound of bugs crawling, the blurry distortion (which I should have turned off). That was driving me nuts later in the game.
The monster encounters were mind numbingly bad, especially the ones involving the flying Lovecraft abomination. I remember when people were bitching about the monster encounters in SOMA. Those weren't a fraction as bad as this shit. The light mechanic wore me thin pretty quick. The protagonist's fear of the dark exacerbated every problem I had with the game including puzzle solving. It made every single thing feel like a fucking chore.
And I have to reiterate just how ridiculous it is that you're still having to hunt for matches and light torches in the later half of the story. This bitch has experienced horrors that we can't even fathom and she's still scared of the god damned dark? Come ON man!
But I dug the atmosphere and it had some really breathtaking environments and cool moments. My favorite part was when she enters the nightmare world for the first time and had to walk through it. It reminded me of the planet from Ridley Scott's Alien. LV4326 or whatever the fuck it's called. Hearing creatures roar in the distance as you was trying to wade your way through the dark and smoke was perfect.
Also I seen some people in this thread claim A Machine for Pigs was better, LMAO! From The Chinese Room, the brilliant mind behind such prestigious classics like Dear Ester and Everybody Gone to the Rapture...