![]() ![]() I freely admit that I used a cheat sheet to get through Diamond World with Toma because his route gets dark and twisted real quick, even when you make all the right choices to reach the Good Ending. I hate seeing characters get hurt, especially when I like them and don’t feel like they deserve the pain. I did go back and replay Ikki’s and Kent’s stories with the cheat sheet because I wanted to see the Good Endings and the Bad Endings just make me flinch. I reached the Normal Ending with Kent in Clover World on my first try too. Heart World with Shin was much better I got to the Good Ending right away without looking at a cheat sheet. That may have worked against me because I was still learning how to interact properly with the characters and ended up with a Bad Ending. (And trust me, those can get BAD.)Įven though the worlds are listed with Heart at the top, I played Spade World with Ikki first because I’m a sucker for white-haired anime guys. Rather, the choice of who your love interest is has already been made, based on the world you go to, but it’s up to you how that plays out, to a Good Ending, a Normal Ending, or one of the myriad Bad Endings. So you aren’t picking among different love interests on a single timeline with your choices influencing who you end up with. All of the characters along each route show up in each World, but with different relationship arrangements and even some variations in personality. After you’ve gotten a Good Ending for these four Worlds, the fifth World, Joker, featuring Ukyo becomes accessible. Your choice of World determines your choice of love interest between four men: Shin, Ikki, Kent, and Toma. ![]() I was afraid that he’d be annoying, but overall I was glad for his company and support during the story.) The Heroine’s challenge is to recover these lost memories and navigate relationships that, from her point of view, are completely new, without letting anyone around her know that she has amnesia.Īfter the introduction with Orion, which sets the stage and explains what is going on, you choose between four different parallel worlds based on a suit of cards: Heart, Spade, Clover, and Diamond. (To my surprise, I did enjoy Orion’s presence throughout the game. He talks to her, often expressing what she (and the player) may be feeling, as well as describing scenes and situations. Orion then essentially becomes the Heroine’s voice during the game. Feeling contrite, he offers to help the Heroine regain her memories, thinking that as she recalls memories, they will push him back out and they can go their separate ways. He accidentally knocks the memories of her life before August 1 out of her and occupies the space where they once were. The premise of Amnesia: Memories is that you play as a nameless Heroine who loses her memories when a spirit named ORION bumps into her. Orion, your spirit companion in Amnesia: Memories But that is a very minor flaw in an otherwise very engaging and emotional game experience. The only thing that was a little distracting was the lip movements: they usually didn’t match up very well, just opening and closing for a certain period of time regardless of the sound of the dialog. I love the voices and it lent an extra level of realism and power to the story that is sometimes lacking when you rely on just text. This is also the first (and so far only) time that I’ve played an otome with voice actors! Since it is a visual novel, you have to read the text, but the audio is in Japanese, which only makes it feel even more like you’re participating in a subbed anime. After reading the summary of the anime, I had no desire to ever see it.) The music throughout the game is wonderful, and while the backgrounds are very sketchy, the presentation and design of the characters is phenomenal. (Apparently Amnesia: Memories was made into an anime, but it was very dark and not well received. The opening song and animation has a very anime-esque feel to it. ![]() As soon as I watched the trailer, I was hooked. The third one was called Amnesia: Memories. Two of the games were connected: Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms and Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds, a pair of Japanese-pseudo-historical-fantasy otome. During my search, I came across a game bundle for sale from Otomate, a branch of the Japanese video game developer Idea Factory. I haven’t had much time to sink into video games for a while, but was in the mood to try some more otome games, something I hadn’t touched since finishing Red String of Fate in 2017. Around Thanksgiving, I made the mistake of going on Steam during their Cyber Monday Sale. ![]()
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