9/20/2023 0 Comments Amnesia the dark descent review![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the cast can be a touch forgettable but they serve more as a goal for Tasi, whose relationship with her husband, Salim, and their child serve to elevate the stakes of the narrative of traumatic survival. She’s doing her best to survive in an uncanny situation while trying to protect those around her. Tasi is a wonderfully realised, vulnerable character who is fleshed out beautifully in flashback cutscenes and loading screen “cinematics”. ![]() Something which Amnesia: Rebirth does excellently. It’s a basic narrative but horror stories tend to be, banking on compelling characters to drive audience investment. Your only goal is to find your surviving friends and (hopefully) figure out what’s up with all the weird paranormal stuff going on around you. Playing as Anastasie “Tasi” Trianon, you’re involved in a plane crash in the Algerian desert. I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I remember the plot of Dark Descent, and neither is Rebirth because while developer Frictional Games has been very open about the continuity, the links are loose and subtle. While it might not have the charm and consistently tense atmosphere of Dark Descent, Rebirth manages to do the Amnesia name proud with some great scares and a compelling story even if none of it is especially original. In a world where indie horror games are becoming more prevalent, what space is left for Amnesia in a genre that has experienced a resurrection? That’s the point that Amnesia: Rebirth is trying to make as it serves as a direct sequel to the original game (that Machine for Pigs experiment wasn’t really what people wanted). I think it might have been one of the games that made the “Let’s Play” genre such a prominent one on YouTube, demonstrating the power of what an immersive horror experience can do not only for the player but for an entire audience.Īmnesia: The Dark Descent, which is over a decade old now, was a low-budget and rather limited in scope game but made up for it with a claustrophobic and immersive setting that many people fell in love with because the horror game scene was in its death throes back then. The original Amnesia game, subtitled The Dark Descent, is a monumentally important game. ![]()
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