Posted on: October 23, 2020

greyhat

Jeux: 1439 Avis: 16

Starts off ok but amps up nicely

My first impression of Amnesia: Rebirth was, honestly, tedium. The beginning tutorial bit was pretty straight forward and linear. It's purpose was to introduce you to the 3 main things. The story and characters, the setting, and the mechanics. This it did. But beyond that it was not that interesting and if I were to base the entire game on that first hour I would probably be hard pressed to continue. However, once you get to the first main area the level design becomes interesting. The areas are smaller in scope but feel as if they are not. Here is what to expect. Nice tightly designed areas with moments of cinematographic scenes and exposition. Those that have played prior Frictional games will recognize this and be familiar with it. Rebirth is a essentially a linear game with small in between areas of semi non linearity. Meaning there are small micro mazes where you can explore a bit with some minor back tracking and looping design making everything feel connected. AR makes some areas feel connected when they are actually fairly linear levels. Think of seeing an area but you cant go there however after looping around some various branching paths you get to a scripted moment where you find your self coming through a door into a room you saw through a crack in the wall. All the time wondering if you could get there some how. And this is where the magic lies. Creating a convincing world that feels large but is actually not. The story gets more interesting as you go along. The mechanics are very solid with gauges for your light sources and health being diegetic. Though you dont exactly die in this game in the traditional sense. Soma was a masterpiece of atmosphere and story telling but AR has taken some definite leaps with the level design and is a good game. In comparison to the first game A: dark descent, Rebirth has expanded on the formula nicely. Personally I am enjoying AR more. Enemies are the standard Frictional TM of evade or run.

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Posted on: December 9, 2024

azzo66

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Jeux: 264 Avis: 2

Call of Duty like Garbage

What a disaster. This game features all the idiotic "call of duty cinematic" forced camera angles and non stop story line interruptions without any logical sense to horror or good story or character development that made the original game amazing. Expect constant interruptions with irrelevant attempts to "carry on a narrative" towards a meaningless plot and story line. The graphics themselves attempt to herald an experience while actually portraying an environment that had little effort put into worthwhile exploration. Pure disaster of a game and an embarrassment that should not be worthy of carrying the title Amnesia. I'm glad I only wasted $4 on this abomination of a walking simulator which should actually be described as a "console rail shooter without guns". You want a good game go play Amnesia The Dark Descent.

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Posted on: November 4, 2020

kdgog

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Jeux: Avis: 67

Highs and lows

Firstly, I couldn't get the game to run in Win7. Turns out I needed to download a dll file from elsewhere. Then the game ran perfectly. Frictional could easily have included that as an install option for Win7. I got it running in the end. As to the game ... I love Penumbra, Amnesia TDD, and SOMA. Each expands on the one before in some way. I expected another progression, perhaps unfairly. Rebirth is more like a greatest hits. The familiarity is unsurprising, but sometimes you miss the wow factor. The biggest problems I had with Rebirth were partly the unevenness - one minute I'd be slightly bored by cave levels; then I'd emerge into a sunset desert and forgive everything. One minute I was confused by the story, the next I'd explore a ruined fort and feel like I was in TDD. So the settings are varied, some better than others. The best are great; the more average ones can't be as interesting as rooms in a castle, or an underground bunker, or a deep sea installation. The second problem was exposition. At many points in the game it felt like every few steps I was having the game halted for a memory, or a document, or a voiced interlude, to the point that I was having immersion broken. Because most are voiced, it really slows things down, in a way I don't remember feeling in the other games. I'm not sure what they could do about that, but it is mildly frustrating at times, which isn't a good mood for horror. Still, the best bits satisfied me, and the game included a few scenes and ideas I hadn't encountered before, even if others annoyed slightly (oh, just remembered - you can only carry 10 matches. Why? It feels like an artificial restriction.)

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Posted on: February 13, 2023

Megabyte

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Jeux: 559 Avis: 112

Great with a questionable choice or two

Despite it's quirks at the end, this is a really good horror game. It is a very linear experience that will last you 8-10 hours, keeping you on edge just about the entire time. And while it doesn't try to play with you sigh an insanity system, it uses a different kind of insanity to much higher tension then anything before. If you loved both Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, you are absolutely gonna love this too. If you are a fan of genuinely tense and scary games, this one will not disappoint you provided you can put up with a slow burn start and maybe a different kind of fucked up at the end for a short time (that seems to be forever). Everyone else, if you want to try horror, this is far from a bad point to start.

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Posted on: May 28, 2023

Vonnis

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Jeux: 541 Avis: 16

Couldn't get into it.

A game like this lives and dies by its ability to immerse the player and pique his interest. Unfortunately Rebirth failed to do either. It halts you in your tracks every few paces either with a note that may or may not be read by a voice actor that cannot be listened to while moving, or a cutscene (mostly just some flashing images). The game chooses the worst ways to tell its story, as if nobody at Frictional noticed it isn't 2010 any more and never evolved. As for the story itself, I didn't get far enough into the game to see what it was about. Maybe it turns out great, but the game didn't give me a reason to care enough to find out. Maybe a less immersive, less interesting version of Dark Descent is what you're looking for. For me it's a disappointment and a refund.

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