#Amnesia rebirth full game series#

What follows is ten or so hour jaunt through a wildly uneven game that successfully grapples with its ambitions as often as it fumbles them. You’re even prompted to check in on the child, cradling your stomach to calm your nerves by pressing X (an unintentionally hilarious riff on the meme but a sincere attempt at emotional engagement none the less). Triggered by a traumatic discovery, Tasi breaks through her amnesia and recalls her unborn child, from which point on she becomes singularly focused on its safety. Still, Rebirth is at its best when Tasi is allowed to fully inhabit her narrative and it soon does away with the pretence that things are even remotely okay for the explorer.

#Amnesia rebirth full game series#

It’s difficult to bristle at the very premise of the series and while Tasi’s slow discovery of the truth provides some halfway decent chills, I can’t help but wonder what Frictional could achieve without the “oops I forgot this cosmic horror” blueprint. Inside the titular amnesia rears its ugly head as she finds the remains of the survivors camp, among which there are signs that she herself was with them when they first left the plane.

Tasi awakens alone in the wreckage, dodging the scorching desert sun until she can find comfort in the dank coolness of a nearby cave system. It’s a stunning sequence, one of many cinematic moments that Rebirth excels at. The plane is struck by an interdimensional storm, ripping it apart as it slips between our reality and the next. A French archaeologist travelling with her husband, Tasi finds herself aboard a doomed flight to Algeria in the 1930s. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game as a pregnant woman, let alone one as far along in her pregnancy as protagonist Tasi Trianon is. Rebirth’s ambitions seem to be beyond the mechanical, resting on the laurels of Frictional’s past work with its gameplay and attempting an emotional study to rival SOMA’s identity conflicts. Lessons from their recent successes, and from the genre at large, occasionally present themselves too thankfully but Rebirth is far too concerned with restoring a golden age the sun has long set on. Frictional Games, a studio that largely shaped our collective appreciation of modern first-person horror titles ( one way or another) fills the role of an archeologist now.Īfter massive swings with Amnesia trilogy and SOMA, Rebirth sees the studio romanticise their own history with wildly uneven results. Like a lovingly restored ornamented relic found in the dark corner of a tomb somewhere, it is unmistakably beautiful but bears the marks of history like tiny fractures in stone. Amnesia: Rebirth feels like a game out of time.