Amnesia: Memories

Yesterday I decided to put some games on my Vita's memory card. So I went to my local video game shop and bought a PlayStation Store voucher. In the shop they had C:R: Wintertide Miracles by the checkout for the PS4 and sitting on the small Vita shelf, plus the trailer was showing on the TV screen behind the shop counter. They didn't have the limited edition though. Even though the game looked very tempting, I think I might wait until the price drops before I consider picking it up.

From the PS Store, I purchased two games, Amnesia: Memories and Sweet Fuse: At Your Side. I was gonna get Hatoful Boyfriend instead of Sweet Fuse but I decided I wanted to date humans this time round instead of pigeons. Hopefully Sweet Fuse will look good on my Vita, since it's actually a PSP game which is used to running on a smaller screen. I think I can actually put it on my PSP if I really wanted, but unfortunately I don't have a USB cable for it.

Now I have a bit of money left on my account. All I can really buy with it is one crappy puzzle game so I'm just going to wait until there's a flash sale on PS1 games because I really want to pick up Theme Hospital since I haven't played it in years and because I don't know how well the PC version'll work on Windows 10.

I'm happy I've got my memory card and all that, but I'm annoyed that my Vita won't let me access my files saved in the internal storage. I think that it did transfer my C:R and PotBB save files over, but I had a few photos of me and my cat that didn't come with them. Now I have to take the tiny memory card out and plug my Vita into my PC to get those files off.

 But I didn't come here to talk about memory cards. I just felt like dumping my thoughts on Amnesia because I decided to play it first before starting Sweet Fuse. I was very excited for this game even though I have heard that it does get a bit crazy later on. Please beware of spoilers for the story down below.

Booting it up, I had no idea that the sprites moved their mouths as they spoke! At first it looked a bit funny, but after a while you get used to it. It's actually a pretty good idea, it's way better than just having static sprites standing there as still as a statue.

The heroine doesn't actually have a default name or a personality or anything, so I can understand why some people don't like this, but I really don't mind this since she's a blank canvas for self-insertion! You don't actually get to read any of her dialogue, but I think she is still saying stuff but you just have to imagine what exactly it is that she's saying! In this post I'm probably just going to end up referring to her in the first person because whilst playing it definitely felt like she was me.

In most otome games I've played so far, you only get to make a choice like once or twice a chapter, but this game's great because it gives you loads of choices to make because the character's basically you. I don't think I'll ever feel pissed off because the MC does something I don't like.

Booting the game up, I was greeted by this cute little fairy boy called Orion, who I'm pretty sure has a female voice actor. He told me he'd crashed into my head, making me lose all of my memories. I'm liking him as a character so far, he provides a great running commentary to the story.

But Orion told me that I could be from one of many possible parallel dimensions, but he wasn't sure which one, so it was up to me to choose. This choice determines what route you're on. There were four different worlds, but there is another one that's just locked. I didn't really have an idea of who I wanted to date first, so I just chose the Heart World, which is Shin's route. I think he's the poster boy of the game because he's on the cover art, but his route isn't locked which makes me think that it isn't the true route.

So I was transported straight into that world, where I lay in a hospital bed, covered in bandages. Most games I've played so far only really throw some romance in near the end, but Amnesia presented me with a kiss CG right off the bat. This was when Shin came in to take me out of the hospital. It turns out that he's actually your boyfriend.

Shin's an interesting character. He can be a bit of a twat at times, but it seems like he genuinely cares about my wellbeing, skipping school so that I can be taken care of. It's probably because he either feels really guilty about what happened to me or because he genuinely loved me. I didn't really have any idea how I got into hospital in the first place, because Shin didn't really want to tell me even though I really have a right to know why.

He got suspicious of me right off the bat, even lying to me to test to see if my memories were all right. The in-game suspicion-meter was really high at these point. Then I had to confess that I literally had no idea who I was, so he decided to take me around town hoping that I'd remember things.

Then I literally had to go straight back to work with my bandages and everything. That was where I met Toma. I've heard.... things about Toma. He's like Marmite, you either love him or you hate him. That's why I'm excited to later on try out his route because I heard it gets so crazy. But he doesn't want to trap me in a cage here, because he's supposed to be childhood friend and coworker. I suppose he's alright. I don't really know that much about him in this route yet. I think he's just gonna be a supporting character and that's it.

But then some more stuff happened until I got to the point where I put my Vita down, about half an hour ago. Toma and my friend Sawa came to visit me and they ended up telling me about how I got hurt. I thought that Shin got me in a car crash or went crazy and beat me up, but no, I fell off a cliff. That must've been a pretty low cliff, because I think I would've been dead otherwise. It must've been quite dark when I fell, because otherwise I would've seen that edge from a mile away. After being told this, I got a memory of Shin finding me on the floor, even though it wasn't him who found me. That was when I took a break.

I still think that maybe Shin beat you up or something before. I don't think that's gonna be true though, because why would they make the game's poster boy abusive? He's supposed to be my boyfriend, but sometimes it doesn't feel like he loves me when he calls me an idiot. I'd better read more to find out what happens.

So far, I'm loving this game. The high amounts of romance and the blank-slate protagonist make it one of the perfect games for me. Even though people dislike some of this game, I think I'm gonna end up liking it all, even Toma's route.

Well, that's all for today. See you all later!!