I Have This Condition – Amnesia: Memories Review

<p>Visual novels have found a nice home on the PS Vita&period; The handheld works well with them because it is very difficult to hold one&&num;8217&semi;s attention with a visual novel on a console&period; <em>Heavy Rain<&sol;em> and <em>Murdered&colon; Soul Suspect<&sol;em> did alright on consoles but I did find myself losing interest now and then&comma; and swapping out to a more action oriented game&period; <em>Amnesia&colon; Memories<&sol;em> is a visual novel that you could think of as like a comic book&comma; but instead of having superheroes&comma; you have high school students roaming Japan&period; Let it be known&comma; readers&comma; that this game has absolutely no action in it&semi; you sit there&comma; read&comma; press &&num;8220&semi;x&&num;8221&semi; to see what happens next&comma; and repeat&period; Every now and then you get to make a decision but other than that&comma; prepare to read a lot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;90609" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-90609" style&equals;"width&colon; 899px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04183022&sol;amnesia&lowbar;memories&lowbar;screenshot2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-90609" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04183022&sol;amnesia&lowbar;memories&lowbar;screenshot2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Amnesia" width&equals;"899" height&equals;"509" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-90609" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Amnesia&colon; Memories&comma; Idea Factory&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>You begin the game in darkness&comma; not knowing where you are or what has happened&period; A little spirit named Orion pops into view and explains that she collided with your mind and is now trapped inside your soul&period; She tells you that right now you are trapped in a space between dimensions&comma; and that when the collision happened&comma; not only was your consciousness lost but your memory as well&period; Essentially&comma; Orion is taking the spot where all your memories were held&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Orion tells you that you must return to your world and recover as many memories possible&comma; so that she can separate from you&period; She tells you that you must pick one of four worlds&colon; Heart&comma; Spade&comma; Clover&comma; or Diamond&period; In my playthrough&comma; I chose Diamond because why not go to the hardest world&comma; right&quest; When I arrived at my chosen world I was greeted by Toma&comma; who you come to discover is a good friend&period; He helps you on your way and continues with you as you try to figure out who you were&comma; what your interests were&comma; and so on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controls in <em>Amnesia&colon; Memories<&sol;em> are fairly simple&semi; You press &&num;8220&semi;x&&num;8221&semi; over and over again as you progress through the dialogue&period; Every now and then you are prompted with a decision&comma; and you must select your decision my tapping on the vita screen&period; Other than that&comma; you can save&comma; and also switch between dialogue that progresses automatically or manually&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game&&num;8217&semi;s visuals are nice&period; The character design is interesting and different &&num;8212&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s still very anime-like&comma; but I enjoyed watching this story unfold with these characters&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d say the voice-overs were done very well&comma; but I cannot&comma; seeing as the entire story is voiced in Japanese&period; Sadly&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t understand Japanese so I kind of tuned out the voice-overs to concentrate on reading&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a very pretty game&comma; but have your reading glasses ready&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;heypoorplayer&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;2015-05-28-132537&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"544" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Amnesia&colon; Memories&comma; Idea Factory&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Amnesia&colon; Memories<&sol;em> didn&&num;8217&semi;t really draw me in&semi; I found myself somewhat dozing off as I played it&period; It is&comma; however&comma; very well put together&period; The graphics are great&comma; the story is interesting&comma; and there is a lot of content&period; Each world has a different version of the story that you can go through and a different person greeting you at the beginning&comma; which changes how the story plays out&period; That is a very neat concept&comma; if you have the patience for it&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if I can sit through four of these stories without being brought to tears with boredom&period; If you are a fan of visual novels&comma; by all means pick this up&semi; if you&&num;8217&semi;re tired of the usual&comma; run of the mill console games&comma; pick this up&period; But if you&&num;8217&semi;re looking so a super exciting&comma; action packed game&comma; steer your gaze to something other than <em>Amnesia&colon; Memories&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><em>A PS Vita code for Amnesia&colon; Memories was provided by Idea Factory for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;