

If your vision goes blurry and the controls begin to feel shaky and hard to control, it means your sanity is very low and you are about to die. Do not use any tinderboxes unless you feel it’s necessary, for example if you have no oil and need to light up an area to heal your sanity. If you previously did the illuminatus achievement, this should be easy. You should try and scavenge for as many tinderboxes and oil as you can.

Try to avoid these, but especially the latter. If you somehow didn’t know this, standing in darkness and looking at enemies drains your sanity. It will just make the run longer and slightly tougher. You will be able to see the surroundings much easier. Strongly recommend getting the Illuminatus achievement so you will be familiar with the tinderbox locations (although there will be less) You need to know what you’re doing and where you’re going. Strongly recommend at least one playthrough before doing this. You will be able to hear the enemies much easier doing this. The mode affects the Illuminatus achievement, which you can’t get during playing in Hard Mode as it reduces the number of tinderboxes throughout the level. The mode changes some fundamental elements of the game, and therefore can’t be changed halfway through. You can pick between normal mode and Hard Mode when starting a new game of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. If you die you go back to your last save. There is no danger music when the monsters are near. Monsters are faster, spot the player more easily, deal more damage and stay around for longer Less oil and tinderboxes throughout the levels

Sanity dropping to zero results in death Autosaves are disabled, and manual saving costs 4 tinderboxes Hard mode differs from the normal game in the following ways: This achievement requires you to beat The Dark Descent on Hard Mode. It will not be an entire walkthrough but will guide you in beating the tougher parts of the game and give you information for monster spawns on each level.

Welcome to the guide for the Masochist achievement.
