Amnesia: Rebirth

I was looking forward to getting stuck into another horror game from Frictional games. The puzzles were what you'd expect and quite fun to solve. It was a bit of a slow burner at the start where it introduces characters and mechanics but eventually it picks up. Once you get there, you're avoiding enemies and experiencing the great sound design the other games had. As for the story, there are cutscenes, pages to find and stuff written on walls. You can piece it together and get a good feel for whats happened. I was taking my time and investigating everything but it only took about 8.5 hours which I thought was a bit short and that was with multiple endings. Overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it to fans of the series.

The short version is, if you like a story driven atmosphere rich experience with frictional's special touch, you will like this. The graphics are the best the studio has ever produced, sound is as good as ever, the setting is quite original for a horror game, at least for the desert parts. I went into this game not remembering much about the Dark Descent's story and maybe that's why I have nothing negative to say about it. So why doesn't it deserve 5 stars? Well, first thing is, it is a refinement of what came before it. Everything works well, but there's nothing groundbraking. The story gets pretty good half way in, before that I was not very much engaged because the beginning is lacking a hook. Then there are some graphical bugs, not many but every one of them took me a little bit out of the experience. The light and darkness mechanic was ok in my opinion, I never lacked any matches or oil for the lamp, but it also introduced a habit of sprinting forward with you match to try and light as many lamps as possible. This is contrary to the slow and scary crawl forward that such a game is supposed to elicit. In the end I think that the plastering of Amnesia in the title, while understandable for marketing reasons did this game a disservice as comparisons will inevitably be drawn. This is a great game on its own, just not a particularly impressive Amnesia sequel.

I thought this could be a somewhat promising story perhaps similar to Rachel Foster but actually I don't think so I quit out after the first portal and have read some notes scattered around lall over ike trail clues to make it short. I am terribly bored with this game. technically neither is AR the sharpest Knife in the drawer in respect of game optimization graphically I thought sometimes I am playing Quake2 Terrible game.

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It’s Amnesia. Play it already. Be spooked.