When Amnesia: Rebirth was announced as a true follow-up of the legendary Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Many were speculating on how the original would connect to it.
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However, this would soon come to be a detriment to the game as many new and returning players were confused by some details connected to the original. Making a direct sequel also seemed to split the developers in half. Many who worked on the original Amnesia were now working with the other half who had only worked on SOMA, leading to apparent changes in the well-known format.
7 Amari And Alys
One of the most significant loopholes in the story is the issue surrounding Tasi's second child, Amari. From the beginning, her existence comes as a shock, due to her being unexpectedly born just eight hours after the flight, where Tasi was not visibly pregnant.
What comes as a surprise, though, is that when Tasi has her vitals checked in a strange alien machine, she is shown that her unborn daughter has the same, unexplained illness as her first child, who had died.
Fans have surmised that it may be Tay-Sachs disease, but the likelihood of this occurring is incredibly rare, especially considering this disease typically only affects certain groups of people. It's also not an unknown disease during the period in which this game takes place, seeing as how the disease was first discovered in the late 1800s.
6 Vitae
Vitae is a cosmic essence that is extracted from humans through torture, when they are significantly stressed. In The Dark Descent, it was said that Alexander, who was exiled from the other world, would use an amnesia potion to collect vitae from his subjects at a constant rate. Vitae is a valuable substance that can extend a person's life and even prevent diseases from spreading.
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However, in Rebirth, it is revealed that, despite the countless advances in the other world that were superior to human technology by centuries, they had to find new subjects regularly. They even had factories where they would mass-produce vitae by torturing humans.
It doesn't make sense that despite their superiority, they would rely on a process that many of its citizens opposed. Not only that, but it was extremely costly to produce, as many of their own people were sacrificed to be ghouls, eventually leading to their civilization's downfall.
5 Monster Transformation
Ghouls and wraiths were previous humans that transformed into monsters. Ghouls drank the monsterification water and were often average workers. At the same time, Wraiths are decayed alchemists who, before their own monsterification, used to control the Ghouls in collecting vitae
Because of the Empress's subsequent abuse of vitae, she was rendered immobile and unable to interact with anyone physically. And now that the alchemists are Wraiths that wander around torturing and killing, this leads to the question of how and why these two monsters interact directly to keep the Empress alive.
The only thing from what we know is that she can project herself as a specter, but can not directly influence anyone. Seeing as how Ghouls have some intelligence left, there would be no point in collecting vitae for an Empress who misused her people and transformed them into monsters, so why do they?
4 Amnesia Effect
Later in the story, it is revealed that Tasi and her crew drank monsterification water. Because of this, everyone started turning into Ghouls and subsequently started trying to kill any humans. However, there was one person who didn't go through the monsterification process right away, and that was Tasi.
Instead of transforming, she instead got amnesia as a result. Even after waking up in the plane, she could still hold off from her monsterification until the end of the game. It's never explained how this is the case. Instead, the game offers the idea that Tasi, when looking at and feeling her belly, can calm her nerves and stop the effects of the process. However, this still leaves a large gap in the first half of the game, where Tasi hadn't known she was pregnant and was still under the monsterification process.
3 The Plane Crash
In the beginning, you're in a plane that is suddenly crashing due to engine failure in one of the wings. After crashing, you come to, laying on the ground, with a bottle of medicine next to you and your crew all gone. But, once you've finished the game, this beginning makes less sense than when you first arrived.
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You're supposed to believe that Tasi escaped from Empress Tihana in the other world and walked back to the airplane, where you passed out and woke up with amnesia.
And if that didn't make sense, you then wake up with alien technology on you, with notes scattered on the path you're taking detailing the journey of you and your crew. Despite the apparent hints everywhere, Tasi still doesn't realize that you went on this journey before until Empress Tihana directly tells her.
2 Saving The Crew
Once you meet with Empress Tihana in the other world, it's revealed that she gave Tasi a deal to give up her unborn child in return for keeping the crew and her child alive. She refuses without a second thought, leading to Tasi and her crew being tricked by Tihana into drinking the monsterification water.
Not wanting to give up your child to some unreasonable entity is entirely understandable. However, to then completely trust said entity after they had previously threatened you doesn't make any sense.
At that point, Tasi essentially willingly led her crew to their monsterification and death, making it completely understandable that they despise her after they started to take notice of their Ghoul transformation.
1 Pregnancy
Amnesia: Rebirth uses pregnancy to give their main antagonist, Empress Tihana, a reason to search for Tasi and her crew. The reasoning behind her desire is due to the effects of her excessive vitae consumption. Her womb was corrupted and unusable, meaning that she couldn't have a child for as long as she had lived.
So, as you progress through the game, your character begins to notice she is in the early stages of pregnancy, despite there being no signs of it on the plane. The developers decide to explain this as the effect of her traveling between the other world and the real world. According to a note left behind, a few minutes in the other world is an hour in the real world. When you factor those numbers in, it doesn't totally add up. This is especially apparent in the later part of the game, where you go from being six months pregnant to being ready to give birth, with only one rift tear in between.
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