So, I just finished Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs....

Beautiful Story, but the game is less scarier than the The Dark Descent for some reason. Now, I just replayed the first game and I still don't know why it's scarier.

Which leads me to my next question, why did The Chinese Room remove the Sanity Meter? (The Chinese Room made the game, Frictional just publishes it.)

 

Wait. You don't go insane in the game?

 

There's still the sanity effects from the first game, but no sanity meter.

Now that I think about it, A lot of The Dark Descent's features are removed. Custom Stories, inventory, Laudanum, Tinderboxes (Understandable because they use lamps instead.) and many others are removed. Not sure with hiding in a cabinet though, since most of the game is underground.