Remember Me (2013)

Remember Me is definitely worth remembering.

I felt like taking a trip down memory lane and reminiscing about the days when people envisioned what the future would look like, a world full of white, yet blended with a full rainbow of colors. Remember Me delivers exactly that vibe, albeit a bit darker and set right at the tail end of what some describe as the Frutiger Aero era. Visually, the game still holds up remarkably well today. Beyond the stunning visuals, it offers a story that’s intriguing, mysterious, and surprisingly prophetic about what might lie just around the corner in our own real world. I was expecting something along the lines of Mirror's Edge, just in third-person. While the game definitely has platforming, what I didn't expect, even after doing research beforehand, was that it’s actually a Beat 'em Up. So I pulled out my Xbox controller, and even though I’m usually not big on fighting games, I felt right at home here. I know all about Bandai Namco’s patent on tutorial combos in the Tekken series (kill Bandai Namco, KILL, KILL, KILL!), but the devs at DONTNOD found a clever way to bypass it - hitting a sequence of buttons gives you hints right on screen, a mechanic I’d love to see in more games. Plus, everyt…

Run great on ROG Ally

Original combo system even though combat could be improved a bit. Visually still holds up. I like.

fun

A real cool game, very cyberpunk. Great atmosphere, great art design, neat concept of what a future could look like (kind of like Neuralink on steroids). I find the idea of remixing combos with different buffs to be really neat. The special abilities are also cool. At times the game has been frustrating because I'm playing it on the highest difficulty. The game really lets you fail until you experiment enough to figure out how to approach the battles.