- Tested on PC via Xbox Game Pass
- Test configuration: RTX 4090 + i9-9900K
- Game finished in about 4 hours
- « Better a short and mastered work than a title that pulls too long on the rope! » — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The developers of Frictional Games are back with a new opus of their horrific series, Amnesia, which is already, mine of nothing, in his fourth episode. If Amnesia: Rebirth made us endure a paranormal pregnancy in the Algerian Sahara of the 1930s on the basis of French colonialism, Amnesia: The Bunker chose to opt for the tragic and more classic theatre of the First World War. What's the result?
Hairy are solved / Hairy are solved / To be fired from all these bandits revenge / Until there are no more!
In this new episode, the Swedish studio offers us to put on the uniform of Henri Clément, a young French soldier who, after approaching death on the battlefield, regains consciousness in the infirmary of an underground bunker of the tricolor army. What's up? The trench system seems to have been abandoned and all his bravery companions lay there shredded from the ground.
Oh, and I forgot: a nightmare aberration and thirsty blood roaming in the dark corridors of the blockhouse, whose exit collapsed, As for the « Boots », they still swarm in the surrounding valleys. It's up to you to figure out how to get you out of here. As you may say right away, your recovery will not be a rest.
The best way to describe Amnesia: The Bunker would be to summarize it to a Alien: Isolation, version « der der der der der », much more succinct, only four trying hours of play being necessary to have the end of the story. We find ourselves wandering in the dark, often in the light of our lighter, in search of equipment that will allow us to blow up the rubble that separates us from the outside.
Like our favorite xenomorph, the creature of the title will stop tracking you, wherever you are and at the least sound you make! Whether it's reloading your noisy dynamo flashlight, breaking a wooden door or even blowing it with a grenade, this ubiquitous threat to the wounded will soon have made you find yourself by means of underground galleries that she dug all over.
You will only have a few seconds to hide under a table or take the powder from the camp in the dark. Interactions with the environment have always been part of the DNA series Amnesia and you will again be able to make progress in different ways, depending on your approach and your analysis of the situation, even if the variety of strategies available remains quite limited.
As the monster evolves mainly in darkness, Henri will have to be careful to keep the electric generator of the main hub lit, under penalty of seeing the entire fort plunge into darkness. It's in those moments whereAmnesia: The Bunker turns out to be the most stressful: when you walk past the dark corridors and try to correctly locate the screams of the beast in pursuit. As for resources and provisions, which are very limited (survival-horror requires), it is considered twice before using them.
Real hide-and-seek killer, Amnesia: The Bunker A grim and unspeakable atmosphere emerges from the trenches, both through the decorations and through the various written documents, of which the desperate Poilu feather often flies.
If we regret that some indicators in game appear in English, which is a bit detrimental to immersion since the action takes place in a French bunker of the 1910s, the short but intense proposal of Frictional Games takes on the guts. If you liked the principle ofAlien: Isolation, no doubt this new game of cat and mouse, undoubtedly condensed of anguish, will make you shudder with pleasure. The best Amnesia To this day, word of Poilu!
Another criticism that makes you want to be a devil. It reminds me of the scares on Alien Isolation, the cult game.
If only one day we had an Alien: Isolation 2!
Not said it's coming back unfortunately.
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