Amnesia Rebirth: Let’s start off with a trailer enjoy

Secondly, I wanna mentioned  that the company that made The Dark Descent came back to make this game……yes finally, but does that mean it’s good? Well, that’s what we’re here today to find out so let’s begin, shall we?

Let’s get the rating out of the way, overall this one really fumbles….I wasn’t impressed really. I’ll explain more in the spoiler section but how do I say this without being too spoilery….well remember Indiana Jones Kingdom of The Crystal Skull? Remember how I harped on that film for introducing aliens into the world of Indiana Jones?

Well, that’s exactly my problem with Amnesia Rebirth, that’s right we’ve officially entered alien territory in the Amnesia series. I’m not for any of it…also the tone from the beginning feels slightly off, I’ll explain in spoilers…but for the first 20 min your outside in the desert during a bright sunny day…

Compare that to Amnesia 1 where u wake up in a dark abandoned castle…..exactly, so overall I’ll give this game a solid 4/10…from here on out spoilers ahead y’all been warned.

So in this game, u play a pregnant woman who is traveling to the desert for some archeology with her husband on an airplane, unfortunately, the plane crashes and u wake up having Amnesia, and here’s where my issues with the game start in my opinion….it’s that the game opens up in broad daylight which is a far cry from the opening of the first amnesia game u know waking up in a dimly lit castle…

Anyway u eventually find ur dead husband in a cave, after accidentally falling off an unstable bridge and banging ur head and belly against rocks, in a way where her baby in her stomach would be scrambled eggs…but the game will pretend that never happened, and gaslight u the audience to think yes falling down a cavern banging against rough rocks especially on ue pregnant stomach won’t cause damage…no sir…

Anyways she finds her husband and has the most underwhelming reaction, she basically just says oh shit oh shite, oh god why me….then she goes on with her life…yes ur soon to be husband is dead and all u can muster is oh god oh shite, why me…sigh……ok I guess?

So eventually the character pulls out some wei4d compass that allows her to enter in and out of the alien world…yes u hear that right alien world….that’s the gimic in this game, u can teleport into an alien world using a compass….God kill me now I think I’m done…

Now before I talk about the monsters in this game, also the plot of the game that becomes more important near the end of the game….I think its time I talk about…and I’ll be splitting this up in categories.

Our main character (what I don’t mind and hate about her)

The gameplay (involving or lack thereof involving sanity meter and instead what they replaced it with)

The tinderboxes (or lack thereof tinderboxes and what they replaced them with)

Well, firstly the only thing I liked about our main character is that she’s alone after a plane crash, and has amnesia….I can understand how all that would be scary, plus she’s pregnant…..but everything I hate about this character…and ir has to do with the writing..

For example to give y’all an idea of how bad the writing is, in scenes where she’s running away she out loud says run run run!….like who the hell are u telling to run? Ur already running! Ur alone! Are u telling the audience? No wait she’s not telling the audience….the developers are telling the audience because they think the audience are too stupid to figure it out…even though they’re already running!

See what was intriguing about Daniel in Amnesia The Dark Descent, he’s basically a blank slate…he has Amnesia, we tbe audience including him learm what happens via voice readings when we pick up notes….

So basically we the audience are Daniel, but here in this game Chloe is anything but a clean slate…we can’t really fully feel emerged as her because how many of us who play this game are pregnant women, who get ourselves lost in an abandoned village in the desert after a plane crash? Just saying.

But what doesn’t help is her constant talking like her saying I need to find more matches….see Daniel never spoke about anything in the game, especially not small minor things like that….the only talking moments we heard were when we picked up notes or when his memory was coming back…..

Also I sure as hell u hope like the word little one, because throughout this game the main character keeps talking to her pregnant stomach and keeps preferring it to little one…

Oh little one

Are u alright little one?

Little one? Little one?

This is what we’re going after little one

Hang in there little one

Yeah if u found those examples annoying then the rest of this game won’t do anything for u….

Also, there’s a button in this game that allows u to look down at ur pregnant stomach and put ur hands on it….oh goodie, talk about the most pointless ability in a horror game…this is used to calm ur character down. Through idk how this would calm ur character down…

Now let’s talk about the sanity meter, or lack thereof sanity meter….

Ok where to begin, well firstly the the game gets rid of ur sanity meter so u can’t deal with it…instead whenever ur sanity goes overboard the game just shoes u ransom flashes of Jump scare images, and 50 seconds later ur character spawns at last checkpoint….how riveting….

Also the things ur character goes insane from in this game sometimes don’t make a lick of sense, for example standing outside too long in the sun for some reason raises up ur sanity…btw when ur characters sanity goes up ur screens boarders get these black tendrils around the boarders….don’t worry it only becomes annoying to look at every time….

Bur also back to the whole getting insane when standing outside in the sun, like huh? What’s there to even be scared of? It be like the equivalent if I went to an ice cream stand on a beach on a good weather and for no reason I start loosing my sanity ans start getting anxious for no reason….

It doesn’t make any sense, what’s there to even be scared of? Oh no the sun! How far it exist and give me heat…I’m so scared of that darn sun….ughhhhhh.

Now let’s talk about what’s the light sources in this game, so remember how the first game had tinderboxes? Well, now they’re replaced with matches that u can find throughout the map….the match stays lit for a few seconds so it gives u sometime to light multiple light sources.

Finally, let’s talk about the monsters, they look generic as F***k they look like something u would expect to see from an indie horror game or someone first time making a horror game…they just look like generic ghouls….it’s told to us later that get this thr alien  queen tricked the people who survived the plane crash to drink from a fountain that has tainted water in it…

Which turned them into the ghouls, again god damn aliens…everything in this game goes back to aliens….aliens these aliens that…here’s the thing besides the movie Aliens, I don’t think aliens are a good pick for a horror game, especially in a franchise that has nothing to do with aliens….

Yeah yeah I know Amnesia has never shied away from magic, realms, and all that…but we’re talking about aliens here folks, and the monsters being created by an alien queen!? Do u hear these words? Do u hear how dumb this all sounds?

Also, the monsters aren’t threatening in this game, where as in the Dark Descent the monsters kill ur character and u respond back at the previous check mark…here the monsters just grab u and scream in ur face, as if that’s supposed to be scary….ahhhh I’m so scared?

Yeah if none of y’all are scared by this game yet I don’t think this game will do it for u….it clearly never scared me so this game never did it for me.

Anyways so come to the ending u find out those creatures u found are people who were on the plane, this alien queen took them here and put them into this fountain with some kinda of liquid, that forms them into these humanoid flared creatures….

Well, I guess now we see where Amnesia The Bunker gets its inspiration…also u end up giving birth to the child…..the alien offers you two options…

1.  She can save the baby but only if she takes her, which means the mother won’t ever get to see her child again but the kid will live and won’t die.

2. They both can just leave, but the kid will die soon.

Yeah, take a guess which option our main character picks.

So she leaves her kid behind due, then leaves…..so the daughter will now be able to live forever…unfortunately though she’ll never get to see her again but still…anyways the end jeepers thanks u I hated this game, this was a choir to get through…

Anyways hope y’all enjoyed this review…also here’s a tease for the next review I’m working on.