I know Thomas Grip said he wants the player not to die (really) instead he prefers when the game continues after death, but hey, this system is contra-productive in the case of immersion if you ask me. TDD has a vanishing enemies mechanics, but at least it didn't teleport you who-knows-where. It's like "damn, we made something so hard to navigate, ok, just skip the section after death lol". After "death" you get teleported to another place. But I never really died, okay this is part of the game, but If you understand that you cannot really die, you will lose fear. Also, the death animation (animation + after death "cutscenes") is just too long including even more fast pictures throwing in your face. You only hear them and they kill you without a sense. They are some kind of invisible which is not scary, just frustrating. I felt like being in a disco with all these fast and loud picture effects which shows you creepy images for half of a second, come on, it's so cheap looking, sometimes, I've had a feel that the game was done by some TDD custom stories creators.ĭuring the first 2 hours some time I died and I didn't even know why. Intelligent made horror should not use them.Īnd Frictional Games knows that very well, so I really don't understand why they broke their rules and use tons of them, everywhere in "Amnesia: Rebirth". But in general jump scares are cheap and you should use them only very decent or completely avoid them.
A game which handles very well with jump scares is "Pineview Drive" the first original installment. This is okay, because this are believable things and not generic special effects which were thrown at you. If you use some very few decent ones it is okay, like for example in "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" you open a drawer and skulls coming out or like in "Silent Hill" when you open a locker and a cat jumping out. Something I absolutely hate are jump-scares, because they are cheap. I love horror games and movies when they are very well done.
My honest review of "Amnesia: Rebirth" to the developer
My review is around 4.500 letters too long, but I can't make it shorter, because everything I have to say here is important. So first sorry that I post my review here, but it was not possible for me to write it in the official review section, because of the limited letters.
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