Interestingly however there is much more on offer than just a story being told through visual novel format as in addition to the main game there is a variety of unlockable content and playable side-games. This means that multiple playthroughs of the game can be made slightly easier as you do not have to memorise which phrases you have selected – as the game will do it for you it’s just your job to choose the right phrases (or responses) to get the ending you desire. It’s a rather daunting set of statistics but players can find comfort in the fact that any previous responses made to characters will be highlighted in green when they re-appear. This is where Amnesia: Memories, along with its variety in storylines, begins to shine – a single play through of the entire game will only take around ten hours but in order to get all seventeen endings it could take you up to 170 hour’s – if not more. In total seventeen different endings are available, nine bad, four normal and four good but while it’s not necessary to obtain them all it will provide a far greater sense of completion. Amnesia: Memories requires ‘very little’ input from the player it’s basically an audio-book except you have text, pictures and voices all at once, and the only interaction the player will make is to respond to ‘selective’ questions and as any visual novel player will know these will alter the outcome of the ending. There is an alternate way of playing the game, and thats to achieve the affections of each male character and ignore the Amnesia aspect but this is ‘your’ game so you choose how to play it – for the love or for the story. No matter which route you choose however the main concept of recovering your lost memories, and keeping your memory loss a secret from others, will remain the same and while it sounds like hard work its actually easier than you expect. There is also a fifth, and final route, known as the Joker but this won’t become accessible until all of the previous routes have been completed it may sound daunting but each route only lasts a few hours – and that’s without skipping the Japanese voice-over. There’s no set order on which to play these routes in but having seen the anime series beforehand I opted to follow the same path which in this case would be the order they are listed in. The heart route for example will see Shin as the focus of the story with him being framed for an attempted murder on the protagonist whereas the Spade route on the other hand will see Ikki and his obsessed fan-club of girls being the focus of the story. If you’ve watched the anime series, which has recently been released by MVM Entertainment in the UK, then you’ll already have a pretty good grasp of what to expect – the difference here however is that the game is a lot more engaging and goes more into depth with each character.įor instance after the short introduction with Orion you are forced to make a decision between four different playing cards (Heart, Spade, Club and Diamond) with each card offering a distinctive storyline and a goal to reach towards. Does this make Amnesia: Memories a boring experience? Far from it – and this is coming from a first time player of the genre – as instead it offers five engaging storyline types and seventeen possible endings that YOU the player must work toward.ĭesigned and developed by Design and Idea Factory Amnesia: Memories throws you, the player, into the mind-set of a female protagonist who, after accidentally becoming combined with a friendly spirit known as Orion, must reclaim her lost memories. If you are looking for Japanese-themed-action game or an RPG with visual novel elements then you may as well stop reading and look elsewhere as Amnesia: Memories is pure visual novel, an Otome Game if you prefer, with little to no input from the player. Remember those text-based adventure games you used to read as a kid whereby you would reach a fork in the road and it would say “turn to page 46 to turn right” or “turn to page 54 to turn left”? Well this is pretty much what Amnesia: Memories is except this time instead of going on an epic adventure to slay a dragon you are actually trying to retrieve your lost memories and find your true love.
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