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Amnesia: Rebirth (PC)

I don't know what to say as I'm tired af. This game has haunted me for a long time and I started to drop it off the wayside around the time the game got scary. But then I find out the game series hasn't changed as a whole and what were once novel mechanics back in the day, are now tired mechanisms overused and overwrought. Of particular note is the use of death to skip parts of the game in order to keep things moving. Normally I would complain but I was just so done with this protagonist that I just wanted to keep moving forward. I think the game intended you to hate her overtime idk. But anyways it was satisfying at the end when they finally offered the third option which I gladly took.

The story is tragic enough to keep me interested and much like all its games before it including SOMA, it offers a very interesting morally grey choice. Unlike SOMA though, we don't get to deal with an interesting philosophical quandary about the state of mind in things. We get this sorta-kinda-okay deconstruction of a mother's love and what she'll take to save her child. Honestly the infodump by the end was kind of on the nose I mean it was fine but the pacing could've been better. Still, it was nice to finally answer or expand on a few questions made by the first game.

God I dunno if I wanna do the Bunker now seeing how vastly different it is. Well, not in a long time at least. For now, my history with this developer stops here. SOMA, Penumbra, Amnesia all of it. It was a ride to be sure.

1 game left before I can finally upgrade my OS. I saved the soulsclone for last because I didn't want to be distracted by this horror game coming back to it sporadically. Amnesia Rebirth had to go and I sincerely put it off for the longest time. Why do I keep doing this to myself lol.