Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs writer describes disturbing cut content

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is a pretty gross game, as one would expect of a horror title set in a grand guignol borderline Lovecraftian rendering of 1899 London. But there's one scene so disgusting that its developer, The Chinese Room, chose to nix it.
Writer Dan Pinchbeck explained in an interview with Kill Screen that there was once a scene that revolved around a half-pig/half-man creature f****** a corpse. I see nothing wrong with this and it strikes me as a powerful, horrific portrayal of desperation and sexual frustration, but the problem was the scene didn't look like a mutant pig screwing a cadaver; it looked like a pig-man raping a live human.
"The problem was it just looked like the pig was raping someone," lamented Pichbeck. "It started off f****** a female body, and actually it just looked like rape. So we switched it out for a male body, and it looked like gay rape. No better. We were trying to make a point of how animalistic the pigs were. But it didn't add enough to justify the schlock."
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