Amnesia: Memories

Amnesia: Memories

released on Dec 19, 2013

Amnesia: Memories

released on Dec 19, 2013

A remaster of Amnesia

Amnesia: Memories (known in Japan as AMNESIA V Edition) is a Japanese otome visual novel game. The game is a remaster of the original first game in Amnesia series, released on the Playstation Portable. Like other otome games, players will be controlling the main female character and find her love interest from various male characters from the game. The game starts when the female main character wakes up without any memory of her past or who she is. With the help of Orion, a mysterious gentleman who appears to be in her side when she wakes up, they venture the world to find her lost memory. During their journey, the female protagonist receives a call from another man whom she might know but can’t remember.


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Never thought I'll end up in a dog cage

Amnesia was my first proper otome game a few years ago and still remains my favourite. It's such a product of its time yet so timeless. The game makes great use of somewhat common tropes like memory loss and parallel universes to create a distinct sense of unease and mystery that even the more "serious" and mystery heavy titles in the genre haven't been able to replicate for me. At the same time it has plenty of lighthearted moments to balance out those aspects so the game never feels too serious in tone. I love the use of playing cards as a motif for the love interests and the ridiculousness and colour coding of the character designs. The sprites blinking and moving their mouths is also a really nice touch, and even though the mouths obviously don't match the spoken words I think it still looks very well done—especially compared to the few other otome games that were doing animated sprites at the time (looking at you, PS3 Hakuoki). Personally I don't have a problem with the nameless silent protagonist. It's a nice bonus when otome games have good MCs but it's not something I look for or expect. In this case I felt that the abundance of choice prompts and Orion serving as your internal monologue do a pretty good job at making you forget about the heroine being a blank slate (and to be fair, she does have a pretty good excuse for it). I think Amnesia is a must play for everyone who likes or is looking to get into otome games. Half a star off only because Kent's route is a bit anticlimactic compared to the rest of the routes, and because I don't like Ikki as a love interest. My recommended play order is Shin > Ikki / Kent > Toma > Ukyo.

not really anything i'd change about this gem. i love you Kent forever and ever

one of the guys killd me becos i was nice to him

I first played this game when I was 12 or 13 and it still hasn't left my brain 7 years later.