A sequel should improve upon the first product. Amnesia: Rebirth does not do this. Perhaps it gets better later but from other reviews I've read, it probably does not. Too many scripted sequences. "Don't play this game to win. Immerse yourself." says the first screen when you boot the game. But you can't immerse yourself when the character keeps talking, comments on every single thing and especially when the game takes the control away from the player. It tries to be too cinematic.
The flashing images and startling jumpscares are annoying. I did not expect this from a company like Frictional Games.
I loved the first game. I loved SOMA. Both of them had amazing first impressions on me. This game does not. References to the first game are amazing but that's about the only positive thing I can think of right now... Matches also run out WAY too quickly, though the developers are planning to patch this, so don't mind this last part if it gets better with subsequent patches.
The game expects you to care about its characters. How does it do this? "You are this woman. This is your husband. These are your crewmates. You care about them. You do." No. I do not care about them. The protagonist does. The game wants me to find them. To learn what happened to them. I don't want this. The protagonist does. This is not the correct way to make the player care about characters.
Also, the 60 FPS cap. While it does get tolerable after a while, this is not acceptable for a PC release in 2020. You "technically" can remove the cap, but it does not give you more frames, it doubles the frames you get, which results in a very stuttery experience.
The flashing images and startling jumpscares are annoying. I did not expect this from a company like Frictional Games.
I loved the first game. I loved SOMA. Both of them had amazing first impressions on me. This game does not. References to the first game are amazing but that's about the only positive thing I can think of right now... Matches also run out WAY too quickly, though the developers are planning to patch this, so don't mind this last part if it gets better with subsequent patches.
The game expects you to care about its characters. How does it do this? "You are this woman. This is your husband. These are your crewmates. You care about them. You do." No. I do not care about them. The protagonist does. The game wants me to find them. To learn what happened to them. I don't want this. The protagonist does. This is not the correct way to make the player care about characters.
Also, the 60 FPS cap. While it does get tolerable after a while, this is not acceptable for a PC release in 2020. You "technically" can remove the cap, but it does not give you more frames, it doubles the frames you get, which results in a very stuttery experience.