Ran out of lantern oil, restart from beginning of game?

[biggles]

I made it up until the point of finding the 3 rods to operate the elevator. But in order to find my way around all of the dark areas this required using up all of the lantern oil. Now, after picking up the last rod a monster comes after you. I cannot escape him without light to see where to go. Do you folks recommend restarting from the beginning of the game? Or use the unlimited lantern oil hack to continue here?

Another question, this game does not have a map function, does it?

[biggles]

The thing I cannot figure out in this game is how to handle lights. I wander around trying to figure out what to do and where to go. The game does not make it obvious. By the time I realize what do to next the lantern oil has run out. So, I am wondering if this game is intended to be played like a rogue type game. Or best to play with cheats, with gamma to max, or with a guide.

[Justice]

Conserve your oil and make use of tinderbox to light up torches, candles , handing lanterns in places and coridors where you probably gonna spend time going back and fourth. Light up torches in puzzle room, so you won't have to weste oil.

You can progress even with out lantern, but it's much harder and you take sanity dmg when you're in darkness for too long. If you haven't noticed yet, your character sight naturaly adapt to darkness (just like in rea life), but it sitll gonna be quite dark.

Here is another tip: Play the game at night with your lights off in your room. It get much easier to see in darkness in game. Trust me.

[Yogurt]

This is really sad.

This game is super easy to the point where a 12 year old can complete it, and I myself, is proof to that claim, because I bought and played and finished Amnesia when I was 12. I have proof I bought the game in 2013 and i was born in 2001.

There are no hard puzzles anywhere in the game at any point. Every puzzle is extremely obvious with the only non-obvious one being the lever puzzle in the machine room, which you can easily look up. The game is literally linear.

The game has 37 jars of oil and about 5 larger canisters of oil that refill your lantern anywhere between 25% to 100%, and it scales depending on how much oil you have left in your lantern (no oil left = full refill).

You have to learn when to turn off your lantern. Stop using it if you're in an area that is clearly bright enough that you wouldn't be losing sanity. Light candles in smaller areas if you're going to search around in them, and light candles in hallways if you feel you're going to be wandering up and down a lot.

[Yogurt]

Even more embarrassing, Amnesia is literally a linear game. There is no way to get lost in the main story. The only way is forward, and if you find yourself in a hub area, although it's non-linear in the sense that you can choose which area to go in first, it's still linear in the sense that in those areas the only way continues to be forward.

Oh no, you might have to walk toward the left or right once in a while... how dreadful!