Image courtesy of Frictional GamesĪs mentioned, gameplay will otherwise feel right at home for returning fans. Tasi has an amulet at her disposal that acts as a mystical conduit to breathtakingly strange, otherworldly locations for you to explore, effectively subverting players’ expectations throughout the 7 to 10 hour-long runtime. However, the desert is just a tease of what’s to come. The game’s lighting is excellent – the blinding sunlight of the open barren plains is a stark contrast from the dimly lit buildings and caves that you’ll find yourself in. REBIRTH’s setting is a welcome change of pace from The Dark Descent’s European gothic architecture, offering beautiful ancient desert cities and ruins that are equally exciting and unnerving to investigate. Pregnant and alone in a vast desert, Tasi must venture on her own to piece together her memory and survive the horrors that plague the desert.Īs Tasi puts it: “Live for the child. After the crash, Tasi wakes up with no memory to discover that the rest of the crew, along with her husband, Salim, has gone missing. Set in 1937, you play as Tasi – a French archeologist whose plane crashes during an expedition in colonial Africa. While the gameplay and overall package will remain familiar to fans of their previous titles, it’s also a surprising game in a number of ways. This time around, enemy encounters weren’t the nightmare fuel – it was the subtle implications of its lore and storytelling that were truly hair-raising.įinally, Frictional returns to the IP that propelled them to mainstream success with AMNESIA: REBIRTH. While some wrote it off as being less scary than their prior work, Soma stood apart from The Dark Descent for being quieter and more existential, as it was more interested in exploring issues of technology, consciousness, and the human condition. Then, in 2015, Frictional released Soma: a claustrophobic sci-fi horror tale set at the bottom of the ocean. Developed this time around by The Chinese Room, it served as an indirect sequel to the first game, only to be met with lukewarm reception (though I would personally defend it as being misunderstood and undeserving of some of the vitriol it received).
Released in 2013, there was Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs.
It has been credited as launching the careers of YouTubers like PewDiePie and has been imitated numerous times in other titles, whether indie or AAA. It has been ten years since The Dark Descent’s release, which changed the game completely (pun intended). So when I say that The Dark Descent scared me on a visceral level that’s practically unmatched, that’s not something I toss around lightly. I enjoy horror titles and consume them somewhat frequently. Resident Evil 4 also ranks somewhere in my top ten. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is a contender for my favorite game of all time. Given that I’m a writer for a website like Nightmarish Conjurings, it should come as no surprise that I’m fond of all things horror and this includes video games. Not because it was too difficult or because I didn’t enjoy it – because I was too scared. Its predecessor, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, developed by Frictional Games, remains the only video game I have never completed due to the sheer terror it evoked from me.
I’ve never been more scared of reviewing a piece of media than I have been for AMNESIA: REBIRTH.
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