You quickly start to realize what the narrative is truly about as you stumble headfirst into unexplainable environments. As you progress through the game, more of her memories become clear and you can flip through illustrations that begin to etch themselves back into her memory through her notebook. Motherhood takes centerstage as players assume the role of Tasi Trianon, a woman lost in a desert looking for her companions. However, what separates Amnesia: Rebirth from other entries in the genre are its themes. The design of these later areas are vaguely futuristic in the way that cosmic horror often assumes that alien life might look like, filled with sharp, jagged edges, cruel machinery, and emotionless stone faces. Instead of damp, rocky corridors, I was quickly transported to another similarly oppressive environment carved out of green-black stone. The addition of a compass you find later in the game also helps you locate specific areas that allow for some interdimensional travel, which I wasn’t entirely fond of, but that’s a matter of personal taste. Amnesia: Rebirth isn’t the best at saying what it wants you to do eventually you just sort of learn by doing or by stumbling across things you might have otherwise missed.Įventually things do become more linear, and fairly early on as well, which made exploration easier and the objective of the game far more clear. And as I mentioned before, this becomes somewhat frequent if you mismanage your resources, which I unfortunately did fairly early on. You can wander around in dark, oppressive environments for prolonged periods of time before you’re pushing your buttons to struggle against the darkness that threatens to overwhelm you. They’re just relics of a previous generation of horror game, action game, or any game really that thought adding screen effects as damage indicators were clever or clear in their presentation.Īnd like those games, it doesn’t convey what it seeks to clearly enough.
These effects are persistent until you find the appropriate kind of light–usually found around statues of unknown origin–but for the most part aren’t entirely obtrusive. When matches become scarce and mechanics are poorly explained, exasperation mounts and you trudge through rocky corridors fearlessly in search of matches or light before dark veins begin to slither up your screen. The dark isn’t something that you more or less continue to dread in Amnesia: Rebirth, it becomes something you start to accept. However, with that level of darkness comes frustration, and with frustration comes a lack of fear.
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